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Heiðrún – goat in Norse mythology, which produces mead for the einherjar; Khnum; Satyr – a goat legged human that is associated to the deity Dionysus. Known to be drunk partiers. Sidehill gouger; Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr – Thor's magical goats; Chrysomallos – a sheep with golden fleece from Greek mythology
Aralez, winged dog-like creatures with the ability to resurrect the dead by licking wounds; Areg (Arev) or Ar, god of the Sun; Astłik, deity of fertility and love; Tsovinar, also known as "Nar of the Sea", goddess of waters and the ocean; Mihr, cognate with the Mithra and god of the sun and light
While it is part of Greek mythology, it has analogs in many cultures, such as Egyptian and Persian mythology. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by rising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, while others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born again. [1]
Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees, and the annual death and revival of their foliage, [1] [2] have often seen them as powerful symbols of growth, death and rebirth. Evergreen trees, which largely stay green throughout these cycles, are sometimes considered symbols of the eternal, immortality or fertility .
In nature worship, the deity can be a god or goddess with the ability to regenerate itself. A vegetation deity is often a fertility deity. The deity typically undergoes dismemberment (see sparagmos), scattering, and reintegration, as narrated in a myth or reenacted by a religious ritual.
Across Far Eastern civilizations like Japan, there is a particularly positive dragonfly meaning—and that's true for many Indigenous American cultures, too. In the former, dragonflies represent ...
Frigg, goddess associated with prophecy, marriage, and childbirth; in one myth, she also demonstrates a more direct connection with fertility, as a king and queen pray to her for a child; Gefjun, Danish goddess of ploughing and possibly fertility; Nerthus, earth goddess associated with fertility
In Greek mythology, Hyacinthus was a Spartan prince of remarkable beauty and a lover of the sun god Apollo. [13] He was also admired by Zephyrus, the god of the West wind, Boreas, the god of the North wind and a mortal man named Thamyris. Hyacinthus chose Apollo over the others.