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Madam Elizabeth Ritcher.
Dayton, Ohio's most famous Madam.
Woodland Cemetary 26-May-2019
An overlook of a fertile valley of farmland on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
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Fertility is the capability to produce offspring. The fertility of human beings depends on factors such as nutrition, sexual behavior, consanguinity, culture, instinct, endocrinology, timing, economics, the way of life, and emotions. In this article, we will briefly discuss the fertility diet.
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Jacob Jordaens (Jacques Jordaens), Antwerpen 1593 - 1678
Allegorie der Fruchtbarkeit / Allegory of Fertility (ca. 1623-1625)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
This is without doubt one of Jacob Jordaens’ most magnificent compositions. In this work, painted around 1623, a good eight years after Jordaens had become a free master, the painter is at peak of his career. Nothing remains of the clumsiness of his youthful work. Whether the eye stays on the anatomy or the expressions of the figures, on their rhythmic ordering or their gestures, or enjoys the creamy, confident paint strokes or the alternation between the golden light and the transparent shadows, or is tempted by the rich colours of the opulent fruits: everywhere it senses the same impressive harmony.
The life-size figures, allowing only a glimpse of the landscape to show through, unfold like a sculpted frieze on both sides of a female nude, seen from behind, standing slightly off-centre and so introducing a certain dynamism into the composition. Her nakedness catches the full light and draws the viewer’s attention. A golden glow strokes her skin, in which nothing reminds us of the cold stone from which her sculptural monumentality initially seems to originate. Rather, as a nymph she belongs, together with her female companions and the satyrs surrounding her, to the category of beings between humans, gods and animals which in antiquity embodied the untameable powers of nature.
The grapes that they are all gathering possibly symbolise the rich fertility of nature. The cornucopia on the far right is a reference to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which tells how it came into being when the horn of Achelous, metamorphosed into a bull, broke off in his fight with Hercules. The water nymphs or naiads afterwards filled it with fruit.
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Fertility Pop, Mural 2008
as a part of:
"Pod ścianą/Up Against the Wall"
Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, pl. Małachowskiego 3
December 7th - January 25th (Tuesday - Sunday 12.00-20.00)
Participating Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Jan Christensen, Maurycy Gomulicki, Katarzyna Kozyra, Josefine Lyche, The Midget Gallery, Mark Mulroney, Anna Myca, Robin Rhode, Yngvild K. Rolland, Paul Zografakis
curator: Maria Brewińska
foto: Jacek Sielski
natural capability of producing offsprings.
La fertilidad es la capacidad de un animal, planta o terreno de producir o sustentar una progenie numerosa.
Willendorf Venus, Paleolithic, Gravettian, 29500 BC. Limestone. From Willendord, Austria. Naturhistorisches Museum. Vienna, Austria. Copyright 2016, James A. Glazier.
The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol, also known as Golden Idol, is a fictitious artifact that appeared in the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Disney Hollywood Studio Set.
This rainforest is mostly comprised of the Antarctic Beech. However, there are representations from the sub tropics such as this Yellow Carabeen and nearby Walking Stick Palms. The Coachwood is usually associated with warm temperate rainforest.
Rainfall here is 2 metres per year, the soils are of poor to moderate fertility, based on the granite type rock porphyry.
Coachwood (Ceratopetalum apetalum)
Yellow Carabeen (Sloanea woollsii)
Antarctic Beech (Lophozonia moorei)
This fertility shrine is hidden in the little garden corner of Swissotel Nai Lert Bangkok off Sukhumvit road. It has been around for many years and many local couple makes offering for a healthy childbirth. There are many interesting phallic symbol sculptures offering of various shapes and sizes, from life sizes to as high as 3 meters, placed around this little famous shrine. Not in the main tourist itenery and long forgotten by tourist. Recently our well known Kung Fu star, David Carradine, died in the closet of the hotel room, in a rather unusual way, phallic related incident. For all you know this little shrine may become a favourite hunt for tourist once again.... Thailand.
Fertility phallic worship is rare but not uncommon in East asia from Thailand all the way up to Japan.
*still life*
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
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WEST INCAN SEMI-DIVINE FERTILITY SPHERE. 1104 (AD) Recovered in1951 from the wreck of the U-711 off the coast of Chile, the West Incan Fertility Sphere, rumoured through the ages to have the power to greatly accelerate human reproduction, now is held by the Museum of Methodist Monks on Malta. Although no documentation was found in the wreck of the German submarine, it is believed Nazi scientists hoped to use the sphere to create a race of Aryan master cloggers who could stomp their way across Europe and the Soviet Union, thus insuring the survival of Germanic choreography for a thousand years.
Opening Night
Fertility Pop, Mural 2008
as a part of:
"Pod ścianą/Up Against the Wall"
Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, pl. Małachowskiego 3
December 7th - January 25th (Tuesday - Sunday 12.00-20.00)
Participating Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Jan Christensen, Maurycy Gomulicki, Katarzyna Kozyra, Josefine Lyche, The Midget Gallery, Mark Mulroney, Anna Myca, Robin Rhode, Yngvild K. Rolland, Paul Zografakis
curator: Maria Brewińska
foto: Jacek Sielski
Fertility dolls. Brought from Mombasa Kenya in September 2013.
HP5+ / HC-110 / Olympus OM-1n / Zuiko 28mm F/3.5 / V700
Something I noticed only once I put the image file on the computer afterwards.
Pirbright, Surrey
20th September 2020
20200920 IMG_5970
Some say the explicit medieval carvings were fertility symbols; others that the figures were meant to ward off evil. Now a group of Irish feminists are bringing them back – as a reminder of women’s struggles
www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/08/big-vagina-energy-t...
Jenny Stevens - Mon 8 Mar 2021 10.00 GMT
Carved into stone, these women squat, naked, sometimes cackling, pulling open their enlarged labia: it’s no wonder Victorian clergymen attempted to destroy or hide the glorious, mysterious figures known as sheela na gigs.
The carvings are found on medieval churches, castles and even gateposts in Ireland, the UK and much of mainland Europe. They seem to have their origins in the 11th century; the oldest discovered in the British Isles so far dates back to the 12th century, the youngest to the 16th. Yet their beginnings are an enigma. Early theories from art historians claimed they were grotesque hag figures to warn against the sins of lust – a way of keeping the minds of churchgoers and monks pure. Others suggest they are a talisman against evil: the act of women flashing their genitals has been believed to scare off demons as far back as the ancient Greeks. More recently, researchers have leaned towards the idea that the sheela is a pre-Christian folk goddess and her exaggerated vulva a sign of life-giving powers and fertility. Even her name is an enigma – although one theory is that “sheela” could mean an old woman or crone, and “gig” was slang for genitals.
"Demeter (Goddess of Fertility)"
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Original Painting
by Cara Buchalter of Octavine Illustration
Painted in gouache* on wood (Plywerk*).
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*Gouache: a water-based paint similar to watercolor but with more pigment producing a bolder, matte tone.
*Plywerk: a handcrafted wood panel made in Portland, Oregon using environmentally sustainable practices.
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I bought these little fertility statues, made of iron, in the northern part of Thailand in 1996.
The man who sold them came from Laos.
At the Museum of Fine Art, Boston.
Northern India, second-third quarter of the 1st century A.D.
Yakshis and their male counterparts, yakshas, are semi-divine nature spirits believed to bring good luck, wealth, and other blessings such as the birth of children. They were worshipped in India prior to the development of Buddhism and were placed on early Buddhist monuments to attract good furtune--and converts--to the new religion. The yakshi's ripe body and unabashed femininity emphasize her role as a source of fertility.
This figure once formed part of a bracket on one of the four large gateways of the monumental railing surrounding the Great Stupa at Sanchi. Originally she reached one arm upward to grasp the branch of a fruit-bearing tree
In Sopsokha village, Western Bhutan.
Buddhism first arrived in Bhutan in the 8th century. It then began to spread over the next few centuries. In the 15th century, a Tibetan monk named Drukpa Kunley arrived and helped to spread the religion even further. He has remained one of Bhutan’s most revered Buddhist masters to date. Although he simplified religious texts for the laypeople of his adopted country, Drukpa Kunley’s claim to fame goes beyond this task. He is actually known for a more notable skill: using imagery of the phallus to subdue demons and bless the people of Bhutan.
The phalluses you see painted around the villages work on many levels – to protect fertility, as a symbol of Drukpa Kunley's unorthodox crazy wisdom, or, as one notice board at the site says, to 'symbolise the discomfort that society expresses when facing the truth'.
His bizarre and unorthodox ways of teaching Buddhism earned him the nickname of Divine Madman or The Saint of 5,000 Women. He used shock, sarcasm, sex and outrageous methods to explain Buddha’s teachings to the masses.
Is there a place you would rather be having fun under the glorious sunshine, playing sports, talking to friends, watching the moon and stars at night rather than study in the classroom? Guess what's mine! Have a great day or night, my dear Flickr friends!
Fertility Pop, Mural 2008
as a part of:
"Pod ścianą/Up Against the Wall"
Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, pl. Małachowskiego 3
December 7th - January 25th (Tuesday - Sunday 12.00-20.00)
Participating Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Jan Christensen, Maurycy Gomulicki, Katarzyna Kozyra, Josefine Lyche, The Midget Gallery, Mark Mulroney, Anna Myca, Robin Rhode, Yngvild K. Rolland, Paul Zografakis
curator: Maria Brewińska
foto: Jacek Sielski
Victor Noir, (1848 — 1870), was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. His tomb in Paris later became a fertility symbol.
The sculpture has a very noticeable protuberance in Noir's trousers. This has made it one of the most popular memorials for women to visit in the famous cemetery. Myth says that placing a flower in the upturned top hat after kissing the statue on the lips and rubbing its genital area will enhance fertility, bring a blissful sex life, or, in some versions, a husband within the year. As a result of the legend, those particular components of the oxidized bronze statue are rather well-worn.
Fertility Pop, Mural 2008
as a part of:
"Pod ścianą/Up Against the Wall"
Zacheta National Gallery Of Art, Warsaw, pl. Małachowskiego 3
December 7th - January 25th (Tuesday - Sunday 12.00-20.00)
Participating Artists: Wojciech Bąkowski, Jan Christensen, Maurycy Gomulicki, Katarzyna Kozyra, Josefine Lyche, The Midget Gallery, Mark Mulroney, Anna Myca, Robin Rhode, Yngvild K. Rolland, Paul Zografakis
curator: Maria Brewińska
Christmas Decorations, For Jules Photo Challenge Group.
Some of my vintage Christmas figurines are shown here, the elves are a favorite, they spin and play Jingle Bells. The fertility flute on the left is always needed. LOL.
You can see my tastes are all over the place. I have a lot of treasures. Note the vintage fishing poles to the right, those are the husbands.
Dobrogea Neolithic Goddess of Fertility
Note the elongated (phallic) neck the prominent hips and bosoms - al symbols of fertility.
The missing head is a rule (no need to think - just to procreate!). A few incisions decorate the body.
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The neolithic figurines of this kind are discussed in the introductory chapter (Overview) of a new Anthology which appears as an E-book and is availbale online:
"Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Presented and Selected by Constantin ROMAN
Anthology E-BOOK (11BM)
DISTRIBUTION: Online with credit card
COST: $ 54.99, £34.99 (ca Euros 35.50)
www[dot]blouseroumaine[dot]com/orderthebook_p1[dot]html
LINK: www.blouseroumaine.com/orderthebook_p1.html
CONTENTS:
2,250,000 words,
over 1,000 pages,
ca 160 illustrations in text
160 critical biographies,
58 social categories/professions,
600 quotations (mostly translated into English for the first time),
circa 3,000 bibliographical references (including URLs and credits)
6 Indexes (alphabetical, by profession, timeline, quotation Index, place
index and name index)
AUTHOR: Constantin Roman is a Scholar with a Doctorate from Cambridge and a Member of the Society of Authors (London). He is an International Adviser, Guest Speaker, Professor Honoris Causa and Commander of the Order of Merit.
INDEX BY PROSFESSION: 58 CATEGORIES by Call, Profession or Social Status
Academics (22), Actresses (9), Anti-Communist Fighters (14), Architects/Interior Designers (2), Art Critics (9), Artist Book Binders (1), Ballerinas (6), Charity Workers/Benefactors (20), Communist Public Figures (2), Courtesans (3), Designers (2), Diplomats (4), Essayists (11), Ethnographers (6), Exiles & First-generation Romanians born abroad (87), Explorers (1), Feminists (12), Folk Singers (1), Gymnasts, Dressage Riders (2), Historians (5), Honorary Romanian Women (15), Illustrators (3), Journalists (13), Lawyers (4), Librarians (3), Linguists (2), Literary Critics (1), Media (15), Medical Doctors/Nurses (5), Memoir Writers (16), Missionaries and Nuns (4), Mountainéers (2), Museographers (1), Musical Instruments Makers (1), Novelists (24), Opera Singers (16), Painters (14), Peasant Farmers (6), Philosophers and Philosophy Graduates (4), Pianists (6), Pilots (4), Playwrights (5), Poets (29), Political Prisoners (30), Politicians (5), Revolutionaries (2), Royals and Aristocrats (34), Scientists (8), Sculptors (4), Slave (1), Socialites/Hostesses (20), Spouses/Relations of Public Figures (51), Spies (2), Tapestry Weavers (4), Translators (25), Unknown Illustrious (6), Violinists (4), Workers (3)
NOTE:
Most of the above 160 Romanian women, in the best tradition of versatility, are true polymaths and therefore nearly each one of them falls in more than just one category, often three or more. This explains why adding the numbers of the 57 individual categories bears no relation to the actual total of the above 160 women included in Blouse Roumaine.
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LIST OF 160 CRITICAL BIOGRAPHIES (each supported by Quotations and Bibliography)
AA *Gabriela Adamesteanu *Florenta Albu *Nina Arbore *Elena Arnàutoiu *Ioana Raluca Voicu-Arnàutoiu, *Laurentia Arnàutoiu *Mariea Plop - Arnàutoiu *Ana Aslan *Lady Elizabeth Asquith Bibescu
BB *Lauren Bacall *Lady Florence Baker *Zoe Bàlàceanu *Ecaterina Bàlàcioiu-Lovinescu *Victorine de Bellio *Pss. Marta Bibescu *Adriana Bittel *Maria Prodan Bjørnson *Ana Blandiana *Yvonne Blondel *Lola Bobescu *Smaranda Bràescu *Elena Bràtianu *Élise Bràtianu *Ioana Bràtianu *Elena Bràtianu- Racottà *Letitzia Bucur
CC *Anne-Marie Callimachi *Georgeta Cancicov *Madeleine Cancicov *Pss. Alexandra Cantacuzino *Pss.Maria Cantacuzino (Madame Puvis de Chavannes) *Pss. Maruca Cantacuzino-Enesco* Pss. Catherine Caradja *Elena Caragiani-Stoenescu *Marta Caraion-Blanc, *Nina Cassian, *Otilia Cazimir *Elena Ceausescu *Maria Cebotari *Ioana Celibidache *Hélène Chrissoveloni (Mme Paul Morand)*Alice Cocea *Irina Codreanu *Lizica Codreanu *Alina Cojocaru *Nadia Comàneci *Denisa Comànescu *Lena Constante *Silvia Constantinescu *Doina Cornea *Hortense Cornu *Viorica Cortez*Otilia Cosmutzà *Sandra Cotovu *Ileana Cotrubas *Carmen-Daniela Cràsnaru *Mioara Cremene *Florica Cristoforeanu *Pss. Elena Cuza
DD *Hariclea Darclée *Cella Delavrancea *Alina Diaconú *Varinca Diaconú *Anca Diamandy *Marie Ana Dràgescu *Rodica Dràghincescu *Bucura Dumbravà *Natalia Dumitrescu
EE *Micaela Eleutheriade *Queen Elisabeth of Romania (‘Carmen Sylva’) *Alexandra Enescu *Mica Ertegün
FF *Lizi Florescu, *Maria Forescu *Nicoleta Franck *Aurora Fúlgida
GG *Angela Gheorghiu *Pss Grigore Ghica *Pss. Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy) *Veturia Goga *Maria Golescu *Nadia Gray *Olga Greceanu *Pss. Helen of Greece *Nicole Valéry-Grossu *Carmen Groza
HH *Virginia Andreescu Haret *Clara Haskil *Lucia Hossu-Longin
II *Pss. Ileana of Romania *Ana Ipàtescu *Marie-France Ionesco *Dora d’Istria *Rodica Iulian
JJ *Doina Jela *Lucretia Jurj
KK *Mite Kremnitz
LL *Marie-Jeanne Lecca *Madeleine Lipatti *Monica Lovinescu *Elena Lupescu
MM *Maria Mailat *Ileana Màlàncioiu *Ionela Manolesco *Lilly Marcou *Silvia Marcovici *Queen Marie of Romania *Ioana A. Marin *Ioana Meitani *Gabriela Melinescu *Veronica Micle *Nelly Miricioiu *Herta Müller *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi *Agnes Kelly Murgoci
NN *Mabel Nandris *Anita Nandris-Cudla *Lucia Negoità *Mariana Nicolesco *Countess Anna de Noailles *Ana Novac
OO *Helen O’Brien *Oana Orlea
PP *Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu *Milita Pàtrascu *Ana Pauker *Marta Petreu *Cornelia Pillat *Magdalena Popa *Elvira Popescu
RR *Ruxandra Racovitzà *Elisabeta Rizea *Eugenia Roman *Stella Roman *Queen Ana de România, *Pss. Margarita de România *Maria Rosetti *Elisabeth Roudinesco
SS *Annie Samuelli *Sylvia Sidney *Henriette-Yvonne Stahl *Countess Leopold Starszensky *Elena Stefoi *Pss. Marina Stirbey *Sanda Stolojan *Cecilia Cutzescu-Storck
TT *Maria Tànase *Aretia Tàtàrescu *Monica Theodorescu *Elena Theodorini
UU *Viorica Ursuleac
VV *Elena Vàcàrescu *Leontina Vàduva *Ana Velescu *Marioara Ventura *Anca Visdei *Wanda Sachelarie Vladimirescu *Alice Steriade Voinescu
WW *Sabina Wurmbrand
ZZ *Virginia Zeani
N.J.O. Blommer
In Norse mythology, Freya is a goddess of love and fertility, and the most beautiful and propitious of the goddesses. She is the patron goddess of crops and birth, the symbol of sensuality and was called upon in matters of love. She loves music, spring and flowers, and is particularly fond of the elves (fairies). Freya is one of the foremost goddesses of the Vanir.
Goddess of sex, battle, and pleasure, most beautiful and desirable of white-armed women, Freyja was sister to the male fertility god Freyr. Freyja had unusual parity with Odin, for they divided the heroic dead amongst themselves. Half went to live eternally in Odin's hall, and half in Freyja's hall Sessrumnir- and the goddess got first pick.
As befits a goddess, Freyja owned potent magical equipment. Like Frigg, she possessed a falcon skin, which when pulled over her shoulders, allowed her to take the form of that raptor.This also provided a useful disguise when needed - important to a goddess whose personage made her instantly recognisable.
Freyja's most wonderful adornment was her necklace (or possibly a jewelled belt), Brisingamen. It was crafted by four dwarfs, and was of exceptional beauty.Freyja so longed for it that she consented to spend one night each in the arms of its makers as her payment.This was a just recompense in the eyes of the goddess, for as the necklace was the finest of all things the dwarfs could produce, the utter summation of their skill, why not repay them with an equally precious example of her love-art?
Three animals are associated with Freyja. She is pulled about in a cart to which two cats are harnessed. Their sinuous beauty and comfort-loving nature recall one side of the goddess. The other two animals are direct symbols of sexuality and strength.
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