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fertility cult n (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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At times the Bible's statements about homosexuality are primarily critiques of the Canaanite fertility cult, or its statements are hard to distinguish in kind from obsolete observations about sowing with two kinds of seed or wearing garments made of two kinds of material. But readers who are looking for confirmation of their neopagan beliefs in forgotten fertility cults and repressed goddess worship will be deeply disappointed, for Ronald Hutton's detailed study of calendar rites is a systematic refutation of all such notions. Exaggerated, overblown interpretations of the importance of gender differences and nuptial bodily orientations might make sense if Catholicism were a pagan fertility cult in which a divine couple created the world by sexual intercourse. |
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