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fertility cult

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fertility cult
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(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) the practice in some settled agricultural communities of performing religious or magical rites to ensure good weather and crops and the perpetuity of the tribe
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Associated with a prehistoric fertility cult, what is the name of the hill figure near Dorchester, Dorset?
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He traces the notion to ancient Scandinavian and Celtic death cults and fertility cults.
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He was convinced that Jesus Christ never existed but was an analogy for the Fly Agaric mushroom, around which the activities of an ancient fertility cult revolved.
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