Fertility deity

A **fertility deity** is a god or goddess asscoiated with various ideas of fertility (reproduction, whether humans, animals or plants), whether it was sex, pregnancy, childbirth, and crops.

## Fertility deities by culture

### Armenian

* Anahit - goddess of motherhood and ferility

### Aztec

* Coatlicue - mother goddess of fertility and life but also death and rebirth
* Xochiquetzal - goddess of young women, beauty, love and fertility
* Tonacatecuhtli and Tonacacihuatl - creator pair of fertility

### Canaanite

* Ba'al - god of weather and fertiliy of crops
* Asherah - goddess of motherhood and ferility

### Chinese

* Bixiao Niangniang - goddess of childbirth and fertility
* Qiongxiao Niangniang - goddess of childbirth and fertility
* Yunxiao Niangniang - goddess of childbirth and fertility

### Egyptian

* Hathor - goddess of beauty, love, sexuality and fertility
* Isis - goddess of motherhood and ferility
* Min - god fertility and reproduction
* Osiris - god of the underworld, but also ferility of crops
* Sopdet - goddess of the fertility of the soils
* Tawaret - goddess of fertility and childbirth
* Tefnut - goddess of water and fertility

### Etruscan

* Turan - goddess of love, fertility and vitality

### Finnish

* Peko - god of agriculture and fertility

### Gaulish

* Epona - goddess of fertility, notably grain and hores

### Germanic

* Eostre - goddess of spring and fertility

### Greek

* Aphrodite - goddess of beauty, love, pleasure, sexuality and procreation.
* Artemis - goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, the Moon, chastity and childbirth
* Demeter - goddess of the harvest, agriculture, fertility and sacred law
* Dionysus - god of wine, grapes, and festivity, associated with fertility, particularly that of the vine and males
* Hermes - god of the messages thieves and fertility
* Hera - goddess of motherhood, marriage and ferility
* lithyia - goddess of childbirth and midwifery
* Pan - god of shepherds, flocks, mountain wilds, and rustic music; associated with fertility, particularly that of animals
* Phanes - primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life
* Priapus - rustic god of fertility, protection of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia
* Persephone - goddess of spring, flowers, and vegetation

### Hawaiian

* Kamapua'a - demi-god of fertility
* Lono - god associated with fertility, agriculture, rainfall, and music

### Hindu

* Chandra - god of the moon and fertility
* Parvati - motherhood and fertility

### Hurrian

* Shaushka - goddess of fertility, war, and healing

### Inca

* Pachamama - fertility and earth goddess

### Irish

* Dagda - high-god of the agriculture and ferility
* Brigid - goddess associated with the spring and ferility

### Japanese

* Kichijōten - goddess of ferility and beauty

### Nativa American

* Kokopelli - trickster god associated with fertility, childbirth and agriculture

### Norse

* Frigg - motherhood and fertility
* Freyr - god of marriages, rain, sunshine, and fertility
* Freyja - goddess of love and fertility

### Mesopotamian

* Inanna - goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power
* Dumuzid - god of shepherds and fertility

### Roman

* Ceres - goddess of the harvest, agriculture, and fertility
* Flora - goddess of flower and springtime

### Yoruba

* Oya - universal goddess, among them ferility