Fertility and religion

[3] Because of his link to the grape harvest, however, it is not surprising to see Dionysus associated with Demeter and Kore in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

The sacrifice included cooking a kid in the milk of its mother, a Canaanite custom which Mosaic law condemned and formally forbade.

[6] Circumambulation was often performed naked by male and sometimes female pilgrims,[7] and worship associated with fertility goddesses.

[8] Some have noted the apparent similarity of the Black Stone and its silver frame to the external female genitalia.

[11] In Hinduism, Lingam is the most powerful fertility symbol, showing the critical union of Shiva and Shakti.

[14] The Bible states that the purpose of sex is to fertilize a woman, and God, for example, punishes Onan, who wastes his semen, with death.

[16] The religious discourse, in particular Christians, Muslim and Jew values the virginity of the young girl before the marriage and associates the deflowering with the idea of fertility.