Nonetheless, he says, there is little prospect of a dramatic change in the fertility figures.

There is also a stone carving of a head, again thought to be pre-Norman and sometimes described as a female fertility figure, placed in the wall.

To her left was the coal furnace, like a huge squatting fertility figure, its glass door showing fire red dancing deep inside.

Briefly he stood near a three-foothigh fertility figure--wood and horsehair.

The gods themselves are portrayed in myriad forms, sometime as fertility figures, other times as warriors, often as birds.

With its bulging stomach, his torso takes on the appearance of an ancient fertility figure.

Dominating the displays are 13 carvings of women - fertility figures, perhaps - ranging from the size of one's palm to life-size.

I expected yesterday's report to contain the explanation, but I was wrong: it appears to have plucked its fertility figure out of the air.

Satanaya is the mother of the Narts, a fertility figure who is also an authority over her children.