Fields of rolling wheat and wildflowers, groves of olive and pomegranate and citrus — even today, fertility seems ... Getty Museum’s famous cult statue of a goddess, which many experts now ...

A tomb discovered within an elite necropolis in Pompeii has been identified as the final resting place of an ancient priestess who may have served the fertility goddess Ceres. According to ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and ... those worn by priestesses of the cult of Ceres – a goddess of fertility, agriculture and motherly relationships ...

the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from which the word “cereal” is derived. The statue of the woman stands next to a similarly life-sized figure of a man, most likely her husband.

She's celebrated as a goddess of love, fertility, drunkenness, music and dancing, female sexuality, motherhood and happiness," Missouri State University Egyptologist Julia Troche said. At ...