Her Roman equivalent is Venus, and she is sometimes associated with the Egyptian goddess Isis. ... Some people have called the day Ostara, which is the name of another fertility goddess.

From Fecunditas, one of many Roman fertility goddesses, to Atahensic, the Iroquois sky goddess, every culture has its child-bearing deities. And with those goddesses came festivals and rituals ...

A tomb discovered within an elite necropolis in Pompeii has been identified as the final resting place of an ancient priestess who may have served the fertility goddess Ceres. According to ...

Roman gods and goddesses reflected the diverse Roman people who worshipped them. Since Roman civilization was built on top of the ruins of Greek influence in Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle ...

The mosaic depicts Tyche, the Greek goddess of luck, who was later co-opted and renamed Fortuna by the Romans.The deity was likely associated with prosperity and also fertility, according to ...

The birth of Aphrodite Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, became Venus in the Roman pantheon. This mural, “The Birth of Venus,” painted before A.D. 79 and found at the House of Venus in the ...

Before Lamaze childbirth, fertility doctors and in vitro fertilization, there was the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia, said by some to have been supplanted by the Christian feast of St.