Category talk:Fertility gods

Nice category - but it would also be nice to have an article at fertility god or fertility deity or something like that. - Haukur Þorgeirsson 18:46, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I was led to understand that Pan, was also a fertility god although your list omits him.

Some lists have him as the son of Dionysus, others as the offspring of his son Priapus, both of whom are fertility god's so it should follow that he be one as well, Also he is somtimes known as the horned God, where there is a possible double meaning, and he is well known for chaseing maidens and nymph's,one story tells that he fell in love with a nymph called Syrinx, but she was so terrified at his appearance she ran away and asked the Earth mother Gaia to help her, which she did by changing her in to a clump of riverside reeds, so hideing her from Pan, the frustrated would be lover sat by the reeds and his sighs of frustration made a sound among the reeds, whereupon he cut some of differing lengths, bound them together and so was born the Greek musical instrument known to them as the syrinx, and to us as the Pan pipes. On the subject of Syrinx's terror at seeing the God, (he is a saryrs half man half goat) from this we get our words panic and pandemonium, both of which imply he may have been a little frightening to look upon.--Bodsboss 03:09, 14 January 2006 (UTC)D. Ball