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  2. Vegetation deity - Wikipedia

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    Relief of libation to a vegetation goddess (ca. 2500 BC) found in ancient Girsu, at the Louvre. A vegetation deity is a nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants. In nature worship, the deity can be a god or goddess with the ability to regenerate itself.

  3. List of nature deities - Wikipedia

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    Sucellus, god of agriculture, forests, and alcoholic drinks; Viridios, god of vegetation, rebirth, and agriculture, possibly cognate with the Green Man; Karærin, Celtic goddess who protects animals and nature; Sínann, Irish goddess, embodiment of the River Shannon, the longest river on Ireland, and a goddess of wisdom

  4. Category:Mythological plants - Wikipedia

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    Metamorphoses into plants in Greek mythology (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Mythological plants" ... Legends of the coco de mer; F.

  5. List of tree deities - Wikipedia

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    Leshy, is a tutelary deity of the forests in pagan Slavic mythology along with his wife Leshachikha(or the Kikimora) and children (leshonki, leszonky). Meliae, the nymphs of the Fraxinus (Ash tree) in Greek mythology; Metsaema, mother of the forest in Estonian mythology; Metsavana, old man of the forest in Estonian mythology

  6. List of Egyptian deities - Wikipedia

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    Min – A god of virility, as well as the cities of Akhmim and Qift and the Eastern Desert beyond them [24] Nefertem – A god of the lotus blossom from which the sun god rose at the beginning of time Son of Ptah and Sekhmet [25] Osiris – A god of death and resurrection who rules Duat and enlivens vegetation, the sun god, and deceased souls [26]

  7. List of Greek deities - Wikipedia

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    Attis (Άττις), vegetation god and consort of Cybele; Cybele (Κυβέλη), a Phrygian mountain goddess; Isis (Ἶσις) Men (Μήν), a lunar deity worshiped in the western interior parts of Anatolia; Sabazios (Σαβάζιος), the nomadic horseman and sky father god of the Phrygians and Thracians; Serapis

  8. Attis - Wikipedia

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    The heartbroken Agdistis begged Zeus, the Father God, to preserve Attis so his body would never decay or decompose. [7] At the temple of Cybele in Pessinus, the mother of the gods was still called Agdistis, the geographer Strabo recounted. [8] As neighbouring Lydia came to control Phrygia, the cult of Attis was given a Lydian context too.

  9. Trees in mythology - Wikipedia

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    Germanic mythology as well as Celtic polytheism both appear to have involved cultic practice in sacred groves, especially grove of oak. [citation needed] The term druid itself possibly derives from the Celtic word for oak. The Egyptian Book of the Dead mentions sycamores as part of the scenery where the soul of the deceased finds blissful ...