Fertility deities

thumb|Herculaneum fresco 1–50 AD, [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples]] In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hermaphroditus (; , ) is a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably beautiful boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted to rape and prayed to be united with forever. A god, in answer to her prayer, merged their two forms into one and transformed him into a being of two sexes, both male and female. His name is compounded of his parents' names, Hermes and Aphrodite, and is the origin of the term hermaphrodite.

Japanese kami of foxes, of fertility, rice, tea and Sake, of agriculture and industry etc

thumb|right|150px|Herma|Herm of Aphroditus at the [[Nationalmuseum in Stockholm]] thumb|right|150px|Greek terracotta figurines|Greek terracotta figurine, late 4th century BCE, [[National Museum of Magna Grecia]] thumb|right|150px|Bronze statuette, [[Roman imperial, 1st-3rd century CE, British Museum]]

is the deity (kami) of food and grain in Japan. Originally enshrined in the Tanba Province, it is said she was called to reside at the of Ise Shrine in the 5th century, during the reign of Emperor Yūryaku, to offer sacred food to Amaterasu, the ruling kami and sun goddess. She is worshipped as a secondary kami at Chōkaisan Ōmonoimi Shrine. thumb|200px|Toyouke-Ōmikami (r: 5th row from the top) is a granddaughter to Izanagi by her father [[Wakumusubi, who was born while Izanami was still alive (based on Kojiki).]]

Ordinani deity

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nature deity whose disappearance and reappearance, or life, death and rebirth, embodies the growth cycle of plants

thumb|Ugajin (宇賀神), masculine form.

Chinese child-giver deity

Caloian (also Calian(i), Caloiță, Scaloian, Gherman, or Iene) was a rainmaking and fertility rite in Romania, similar in some ways to Dodola. Its namesake is a clay effigy, whose sculpting, funeral, exhumation, and eventual destruction are centerpieces of the display. The source of this ritual, as is the case with those of many other local popular beliefs and practices, precedes the introduction of Christianity, although it came in time to be associated with Orthodox Easter or with the Feast of the Ascension. In some variants it was performed on a precisely calculated day two to three weeks af

thumb|280px|The Maemiya (前宮), one of the two shrines that make up the Suwa-taisha|Upper Suwa Grand Shrine (諏訪大社上社 Suwa Taisha Kamisha), located in Chino, Nagano