fertility rite

He'd helped with the planning for the fertility rite, but he didn't know her address.

Fertility rites were probably the religious practices at these sites.

Because it is a fertility rite, women are not allowed to participate.

The men helped Gordon into the bedroom so he could rest while we did the first part of the fertility rite.

He gives you the whole works, fertility rites and everything, but dignified.

Originally a fertility rite it has become the major festival of the year in the region.

It is also used during the annual fertility rite of Ngillatun.

For years that snake had played a starring role in a unique fertility rite.

This is said to be a fertility rite to encourage the fruits of harvest.

The performance has also been interpreted as an exorcism or a fertility rite.

They perform during the spring and summer fertility rites.

However, it is likely that many uses involved fertility rites and seasonal cycles.

It takes a village to enact a fertility rite, no matter how disguised.

The tradition has its roots in an ancient pagan fertility rite.

It's a fertility rite, my dear girl, to ensure fat crops.

Harvest festivals and fertility rites are coming back, too, the way they were a long time ago."

The Celts used the mountain for sacrifices during their fertility rites.

It was thought to have been visited by maidens in connection with a fertility rite.

They were used in daily rituals, festivities, funerals and fertility rites.

Yet, the work's direction is quite the opposite of that conventionally assigned to the fertility rite.

Even today, fertility rites are performed here every May, now shrouded as a popular practice, but really a 4,000 year old celebration.

Drunkenness was an important fertility rite in this religion.

Priests and even Bishops often performed fertility rites themselves.

Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites.

In Canaan, prostitution and fertility rites were all mixed up with worship.