Curated category
Fertility gods
- FreyrIn Norse mythology, Freyr stands as the god associated with kingship, fertility, peace, prosperity, fair weather, and good harvest.
- EnkiScholars have debated the meaning of Enki's name for over a century. The Sumerian spelling dEN-KI usually translates to Lord of the Earth, yet this…
- DionysusClay tablets unearthed at Pylos in the twelfth or thirteenth century BC bear the inscription di-wo-nu-so. This Mycenaean Greek form appears twice on…
- OsirisThe first evidence of the worship of Osiris appears in the middle of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt during the 25th century BC.
- PtahA hymn from the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt declares that Ptah crafted the world in the design of his heart. The Shabaka Stone, dating to the Twenty-Fifth…
- CronusThe sky father Uranus hid his youngest children, the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires and one-eyed Cyclopes, deep within Tartarus.
- AmunIn 2350 BCE, the name Amun appeared in the tomb of Pharaoh Unas. This Old Kingdom inscription marked the first known mention of the deity in Egyptian history.