Earh deities for men

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From: Nils Weinander <nils_w_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 03:40:06 -0700 (PDT)

It seems like the earth deities are rather uniformly female, and preferring female
worshippers. As mentioned, however, there are agricultural gods, like Barntar and
Lodril. While they might not exactly be
earth gods, they are definitely gods of
fertility, which tends to be associated.

Thinking of the metaphorical connections between plowing and sexual intercourse,
I'd say an agricultural god is about as
virile as they get. Thus I can't imagine a Heortling losing face for worshipping
Barntar.

Furthermore, while the earth goddesses may have (almost) female-only cults, I think that both men and women worship the grain goddesses in areas where cultivation of
grain is the most important source of food. ===

Nils Weinander

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