This year, as she has done for the past 35, she has come to the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in southwestern Nigeria to celebrate Osun, the great Yoruba goddess of fertility and water.

The tattoo is of the goddess Yellamma, which Mr Gordon got tattooed on his leg. They said a tattoo of the fertility goddess on his shin offended their religious sentiments, and ordered him to ...

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 ...