Fertility Rites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...nature were frequently personified. One of the most important pagan myths was the search of the earth goddess for her lost (or dead...Osiris, Ishtar and Tammuz, Demeter and Persephone). This myth, symbolizing the birth, death, and reappearance of vegetation...