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This is a list of agriculture gods and goddesses, gods whose tutelary specialty was agriculture, either of agriculture in general or of one or more specialties within the field. Each god's culture or religion of origin is listed; a god revered in multiple contexts are listed with the one in which he originated. Roman gods appear on a separate list.
Silenus, a Greek God, merged with Silvanus in Latin Literature. [19] Pan (god of forests, pastures, and shepherds), in Greco-Roman mythology. [19] Aristaeus, a god/patron of shepherds, harvest and other rural arts. The Slavic god Porewit has similarities with Silvanus. [20]
Segesta, goddess who promotes the growth of the seedling. Hostilina, goddess who makes grain grow evenly. [19] Lactans [20] or Lacturnus, [21] god who infuses crops with "milk" (sap or juice). Volutina, goddess who induces "envelopes" (involumenta) or leaf sheaths to form. [22] Nodutus, god who causes the "knot" (Latin nodus [23]) or node to form.
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus [ˈfau̯nʊs] was the rustic god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile, he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan, after which Romans depicted him as a horned god. Faunus was one of the oldest Roman deities, known as the di indigetes.
Early Romans were an agrarian civilization and, functionally, most of their original pantheon of gods — as against the later ones they adapted to Greek stereotypes — were of a rural nature with figures such as Pomona, Ceres, Flora, Dea Dia; so it was apt to have a god supervising the basics of organic fertilization. Sterquilinus essentially ...
Arcadia (Greek: Αρκαδία) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature.The term is derived from the Greek province of the same name which dates to antiquity; the province's mountainous topography and sparse population of pastoralists later caused the word Arcadia to develop into a poetic byword for an idyllic vision of unspoiled wilderness.
In ancient Roman religion, Ceres (/ ˈ s ɪər iː z / SEER-eez, [1] [2] Latin:) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. [3] She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called plebeian or Aventine Triad, then was paired with her daughter Proserpina in what Romans described as "the Greek rites of Ceres".
Geshtinanna was a rural agricultural goddess sometimes associated with dream interpretation. [360] She was the sister of Dumuzid, the god of shepherds. [360] In one myth, she protects her brother when the galla demons come to drag him down to the Underworld by hiding him in successively in four different places. [360]