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单词 fertility cult
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fertility cult

noun
A pagan religious system of some agricultural societies in which seasonal rites are performed with the aim of ensuring good harvests and the future well-being of the community.Known variously as gwandusu, gwandenw, or jomogoniw, sculptures of this type served as religious icons in a fertility cult that is widely dispersed among the Bamana....
  • Historians have suggested that they were a key element in a fertility cult and have interpreted the curious lines (that link the beautifully drawn beasts to small human forms) as lines of power.
  • This, as an anthropologist friend pointed out to me later, indicated the existence of a fertility cult that has its roots in antiquity.
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