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Hey boys, shoot me some ideas for fertility Gods, and what they're like in your settings so I can jack the shit out of them.

More GENERALLY though: in a setting where gods are MADE real but also powered up by prayer, does it make sense for different cultures, races, etc to have different interpretations and myths? And would these "versions" of each god eventually coalesce into one unified entity? What would happen to each individual interpretation in that case? Fade away, serve the "unified" deity?

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I would think that the different cultures would still be fueling the same singular deity no matter their interpretation

Literally wat

>More GENERALLY though: in a setting where gods are MADE real but also powered up by prayer, does it make sense for different cultures, races, etc to have different interpretations and myths? And would these "versions" of each god eventually coalesce into one unified entity? What would happen to each individual interpretation in that case? Fade away, serve the "unified" deity?
Do you think it isn't obvious where you're going, here?

Why? That's not only dumb, it's boring.

They're cute as fuck

I mean, even in real world myths we've seen instances of older deities "collapsing" into newer ones.

Kubaba and an Antolian fertility goddess merged into Kybebe, who later transformed into Cybele, who then merged with Rhea into Magna Mater, somehow becoming a trojan goddess in the process, despite never being worshipped by the trojans.

Ahura and Mazda merged to form Ahura-Mazda, who then split off Ahriman as an evil twin. Ahriman merged with Hasatan to become the Devil, while Ahura-mada merged with Yahweh to become God.

So I see nothing wrong with settings were gods are real changing over time as the prayers they receive and the people who worship them change. It also presents a good reason why fantasy gods seem so keen on a singular grip on a geographical area or race for thousands of years, without much in the way of attempting to spread their faith. They can't branch out without being affected as a result, and so they stagnate their pool of followers so that they don't have to risk becoming a different god.

We sort of had two in the god playing game we had, one was pretty magical realm though. The other was a big old bee looking god and was big on plants and growth.

That's a good point, didn't really think about it that way. I just figured most fantasy GMs and writers stick to "yeah they're the god of [thing] and [other thing]", even when their games involve globetrotting protagonists, because it's convenient and less of a hassle.

There's a sensible discussion topic, why not chill and contribute bros?

I want to make that goddess have an abortion

...

I want the Goddess of Time to send me back so I can make your mother have an abortion!

I guess it depends on the culture too, and while is partially correct, some cultures ended up making a big deal out of the Deity rather than what they actually "stand for". A culture full of berserkers might worship the thrill of battle and have a deity that looks over them and lends that divine power, hence they'd be fueling every "war" god inadvertently. Compare that to something like a Messianic deity, where the worship is more on the individual, rather than on healing suffering.

I dunno, it sounds pretty dumb when I actually write it down like that.

I think it's much better when the god is fragmented by belief even if the belief is aimed in the same general direction. I mean here's your incomplete IRL list of fertility deities:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fertility_deities

Why get rid of that for a unified godhead?

I decided to break with tradition slightly and make my setting's fertility (and the Sun) deity male. He appears as a thin translucent masculine figure with indistinct features lounging on his own gigantic testicles that glow from within. He chased around the Goddess of Chastity (and the Firmament) for uncounted millennia trying to get in her pants since she was about the only piece of tail he couldn't get. Due to his fixation on her and his antipathy of materbation his balls eventually became so unimaginably massive that he was immobilized in spite of his godly might. She had a fit of compassion after seeing one of her peers reduced to such a state so she gave him a pity handjob that made him nut so hard and with such volume his ejaculate flew into space where it coalesced into a sphere of divine spunk that dwarfed the planet 100 times over and continues to warm and light the world to this day. This is why people regain spent magical energy faster under direct sunlight and the most unholy creatures can't stand the touch if its rays.

In my setting....

>No one, not even the gods, know how the universe started. However, everyone knows for a fact how life started. The entity that is currently known as The Great Mother was once a formless being, a raw divine spark looking for a home or a host came across the primordial volcanic rock that the world once was. It looked at it and felt sorrow, for it held no life, yet at the same time to saw the possibilities that it held. The divine spark willed itself into a form of its own and got to work. She wrapped herself around it, cooling it. The molten rock burned her as it cooled, and her tears became the oceans, rivers, and seas. Her exhalation wrapped the world in her breath and gave the world breathable air. She then used her own divine spark to create the Sea of Souls, from which all life comes and all life returns. With her own life blood, mixed with the clay of the world, she molded together bodies for her children to inhabit.

>From the Sea of Souls, her children flew to their new bodies, human and elf, dwarf and beastman, animal and monster, plant and all. There they live their lives, and when they die they return to the Sea of Souls so that once more they may take on a new life once they unburdened themselves of past memories.

>From The Great Mother comes life, and to The Great Mother life returns. And so shall it be forever and always.

>the most unholy creatures can't stand the touch if its rays.
Are you saying his intergalactic jizz is entirely comprised of radioactive positive energy

>his ejaculate flew into space where it coalesced into a sphere of divine spunk that dwarfed the planet 100 times over and continues to warm and light the world to this day


..So he came with the force of a thousand sun's?

Considering in many ancient cultures semen was considered hella magical and a valuable component in sorcery work this is not too outlandish.

Anyone who thinks this is too magical realm needs to read about pretty much any classical era pantheon.

Any of the pantheons could get their own soap opera show and I would watch the shit out of it.
>Infinite Days Of Our Lives.

Yep
Roughly one sun, assuming the world is earth-sized.

It is literally Magical Realm though

Silence of the gods a best

It totally is magical realm though. However, so are pretty much any classical era pantheon so I'll give you that.

I prefer to think of it as individualised covenants with the same force. Culture A called on the sun to drive away the shadows of ignorance in the form of a dude with one eye and a big lamp, Culture B called on the sun to sear their enemies with disease and rot in the form of a dude with a vulture head. Both are valid covenants, both draw on the sun, and to a certain extent, both are the same entity. When the cultures go to war over who's right, it's the same force empowering both sides.

You say "fertility goddess" and my first thought is always a big ol' fat lady.

We need more DFC fertility goddesses.

SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
AT THE SCHOTTENSTEIN CENTER ONE NIGHT ONLY
EYELAMP VS. VULTUREHEAD
GODSLAM 2017
WHOEVER WINS WE LOSE
BE THERE

>Hey boys, shoot me some ideas for fertility Gods, and what they're like in your settings so I can jack the shit out of them.
Last campaign I played the only fertility goddess I knew of was lamashtu so...

>More GENERALLY though: in a setting where gods are MADE real but also powered up by prayer, does it make sense for different cultures, races, etc to have different interpretations and myths?
Yes, different points of view and moralities can lead to different interpretation of events

>And would these "versions" of each god eventually coalesce into one unified entity?
Depends, I THINK in bog standard D&D different lands can have different gods/pantheons containing the same "types" of gods but for some reason they have next to no contact with each other

>What would happen to each individual interpretation in that case? Fade away, serve the "unified" deity?
I don't think there's any definite ruling lorewise, I would say multiple deities can have similar/same domains but there's probably a dominant one
Another alternative is some sort of amalgamation of the gods arising but that would assume the religions combine together

He needs someone to blame as the sole cause of what's actually typical behavior for 90% of Veeky Forums

The Gods exist in a stable time loop.

Eventually a number of individuals will be born who will attain ultimate power which they will use to travel back in time and create the universe.

They haven't been born yet and nobody knows when they will be.

A few traits that the eventual gods will have are known, so parents all over the world name their children after them and try to raise them to match the prophecies in the hope that it'll be their kid to Ascend.

>does it make sense for different cultures, races, etc to have different interpretations and myths?
Yes, gods are real, they travelled the world and some cultures don't know about their deeds in far lands. In some places they were assholes to locals, in others they are remembered as benevolent and kind.

>he doesn't make his fertility god a manly man who creates life and makes the land bountiful with his seed

>Fertility god
Literally is the earth itself. Anthropomorphization of it is taboo, so it is only known as Earth in the old tongue. Earthquakes are seen as Earth lashing out against slights done to it and are seen as an independent aspect of it, the Land's Wrath.

Troll gods are few and far between since the titans failed against the usurping of the new gods.

Still, they serve a purpose to these rebels yet - their legendary fecundity often springs forth huge swamplands that teem with new life for the gods to control and distort.

>I decided to break with tradition slightly and make my setting's fertility (and the Sun) deity male.
That's actually pretty common bro

Goblins were created by Earth herself, to strike back against arrogant mortals who would ceaselessly plunder her depths. From that day forward all cavers and miners, diggers and spelunkers of darkened depths, fear slimy hands extinguishing their torch and leaving them in the dark to be overwhelmed by endless hordes.

D&D has never really gotten into fertility gods/goddesses, has it?

What do you think would be important behaviours and rituals for an adventuring cleric of a fertility god?

>a DFC fertility goddess who gave her huge tits & hips to her followers for motherhood

A cleric is not a priest (In sense of an ordained representative of a religion who would actually perform the rites and preach) and an actual priest at a temple is not necessarily a cleric so it's entirely possible to play it out in a very bland fashion.

Pretty much any cleric of a deity that's not directly involved with warfare or whatever passes for major ongoing universal conflict in your setting would have to have personal reasons to actually get involved with any kind of adventure.

If you're so devout to a god of planting shit to the point that said god gives you magic spells, you're probably growing corn and not stabbing goblins.

Acting as a midwife, using magic to alleviate the aches and pains of pregnancy, hunting down those who would throw around curses of impotency

>D&D has never really gotten into fertility gods/goddesses, has it?
Oddly no, I can understand why but it's always bugged me

For a pantheon of "not Norse" gods. Gods are more like just powerful people though the first of them really did create the world. From where they came is unknown and they are silent about it.

-Grandma

One of the first gods. Those who created and shaped the world. Goddess of earth, fertility and memory. Looks like a very small really old woman with a face like a baked apple and figure more reminiscent of a potato sack. Considering that most gods look like Greek variants with bodies and faces more fit to a beauty contest (or bodybuilding) she really stands out.

People who met her say that most of the time she is knitting or cooking something.

Most of the time she spends in a small hut with walls made out of clay which has a tendency to drift over the world and rarely can be found two times at the same place. She is known to give advice to people who found her but doesn't care for fools or clergy. Also don't bother her at night if you want to ever have children.

The goddess ascended from mortal form.

Over rated.

That certainly a valid opinion there user.

She's my favorite, because as far as I understand, she's into philosophy. Which is a huge plus.

I've always been down for male fertility gods, and not the creepy "rape everything" kind. I like how they can be tied into farming, agriculture and hearth keeping as well as being a bit of a balance to the mostly male "warrior/ruler god" portfolio.

Yeah see that is what I'm talking about. She's like the one porn star people give rank to cause she's funny or she's apparently into philosophy or because that bitch is just downright nasty and will do anything. She fucks people for money. She's the definition of a whore. Who cares about anything about her except how attractive she is and how banging her T&A are and how gross she's willing to be?

Everyone is a whore, user.

If you trade your time for money, you're a whore. The only difference is in the act.

Plus, my rankings of porn stars is a completely subjective measure. Sasha Grey edges out a few others because of the philosophy thing.

>Stop liking what I don't like: the post

If it's a temperate climate, have a reason for winter existing when there is a benevolent god of agriculture around. Aesir need to contend with Frost Giants, Demeter is pissed about Hades taking Persephone, A grumpy Elder God cursed all the whiny younger creatures even though it was eternally summer.

You're retarded. Not even that guy.

Even if that's your concept of divine womanhood, I don't see her as much of a fertility figure.

Sex, lust, even love, maybe... but her skinny frame and painted face don't exactly scream fecundity or motherhood.

You can like whatever you want. I just don't get why her interests outside of her job matter.

Hasn't her lifestyle left her infertile by now, Empress Theodora style? Not to mention she has the body of a prepubescent teenager. Whats fertile about her?

>implying fertility gods arent traditional
suck a dick

Bad idea. The dead godchild won't necessarily stay dead.
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Each interpretation of the god would be true in the eyes of the beholder.

would be insanely easy to start was based on the arguments alone.

>God is a THICC ELF
>NO SHE'S A FLAT LOLI
so on so forth

Would a fertility goddess promote incest or not? \

On the one hand there's that whole genetic defects thing, but that's a modern scientific angle which doesn't fit well with fantasy.

On the other it increases reproduction, strengthens lineages and clans and fits in with a fertility "if it bleeds it breeds" mentality (cf. Egyptians, Romans and some Greeks and Chinese).

Early, pre-Odin cult Thor. Hearth deities a best.

It falls on an unpleasant side when it comes to the "magical realm" vs "justified perversion" scale.

In a magical setting with actual, active gods? Could be possible.

It stands to reason that being devout to the fertility deity, would mitigate or remove the negatives of inbreeding if followers sought that, since indeed despite the ethical issues, it is following fertility ideals.

Like it's expected that a fertility deity faith would have benefits to reproduction, like curing STDs and stuff. So inbreeding risks could technically just be another thing to "cure".

I would say that you would have multiple variations of the same deity to serve each culture. You know how fighting games have multiple recolors for each character? They are different yet fundamentally the same in the end, so it would be something like that.

Boring? Yes. Dumb? Hardly

The one that a player shoved in and the DM allowed is kind of creepy. It's pretty chimeric and wanders around the setting appearing to animals and people in strange forms, luring them to breed with it, which is how new animals and creatures are created. That's all the deity cares to do really, just keep creating and diversifying life, and it's how most animals in the setting came to be overtime.

Obviously there's lots of failures and not every animal or person is going to take the offer, but the deity does appear to all animals in the setting if they survive long enough, eventually it's just bound to happen that it shows up if the being survives to reproductive age. Basically there might be a wolf out in the wild and suddenly the fertility deity appears as a completely random animal, like a panda and attempts to convince the wolf to mate with it, thus creating a panda-wolf which may or may not succeed in the wild and become a new species. Or like if you're a hunter, one day while out you might randomly encounter a kangaroo that twists your mind and senses and tries to get you to mate with it, and there you have kangaroo-men.

The reason why there's more anthro species like centaurs than other kinds is because people are more likely to try and properly take care of the strange offspring and do so successfully, than just wild animals.

>kangaroo with boxing gloves waving with its ass at a hunter
I can't get this image out of my head now, thanks.

>And would these "versions" of each god eventually coalesce into one unified entity? What would happen to each individual interpretation in that case?
I imagine the god would appear in the form most comfortable, familiar, and "fertile" to the viewer.

Fertility gods of a culture are male or female depending on the people themselves. If it leans more towards matriarchal (think mediterranean where the mother/grandmother figure has a lot of say), the god is female. Male-dominant cultures have the god as male.

They are powered up by prayer and belief, so their form becomes more or less virile depending on how much they are worshipped. A female god with not a lot of sway results in a puny figure with no sex appeal. One with a lot of power would be thicc as fuck. Perfect bubble butt, big firm tits and all that jazz.

Males would be buffer/chiseled with bigger twig'n'berries or hungry skellingtons. This might be borderline magical realm territory but hey, you asked for it.

When you think about it fertility gods should always be big, black men, their sexuality is the most fetishised one in our culture.

>Gwynevere
>Not Ceinwyn
RRRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!

It increases the chance of deformity especially after a few generations of it. Even if you don't know shit about biology you should certainly get the hint that it is at least not blessed.

Charls the 2nd of Spain being the most hilarious example also Egyptian royal dynasties.

Breadcat! The cat of the harvest!

Please don't shoehorn this bullshit. No they are not. Speaking of sexual fetishes, various types of women beat male fetishes by a mile. More apt to say every fertility deity is a MILF.

How it is not? Women fantasize about being taken by a big black bull, men fantasize about a big black bull taking their women. It's really common, perhaps the most common feish.

An user once posted about his idea of a paladin of a fertility god that i thought was real cool.
Like traveling mid whives who would banish curses on bloodlines.
Disspell plagues on crops and bless orchards.
Fighting they who would spread that which inhibits the growth of life.

>perhaps the most common fetish on Veeky Forums
FTFY.

I always liked the way that egyptian gods fuse together like giant robots. And now with the might of Ra and Amon combined I form Ra-Amon! There's also a goddesses (I think Bastet?) who is actually a personification of a seperate god's powers. I think her father is basically so powerful his strength is it's own deity with it's own personality and relationships with other gods. Puts the rebellious teen years on another level. Then of course there's the couples who are always also brother/sister mother/son and somehow also both aspects of their parent god.
Then you can think of Indian gods who are a myriad of different gods who are all aspects of the three main gods who are themselves just thee different faces of the divine, yet each god has it's own complex personality and story and relationships. Coming off of that it's relatively simple to say that, for example, zeus and jupiter are just two aspects of the same god. Each fantasy race in your setting could have their own aspects of the pantheon to worship so the fertility goddess of the elves and the fertility goddess of the dwarves are two aspects of the same godess.

This is nice. Kind of like knights who follow a church founded by folklore more than a offical ruleing church.
A paladin of the common folk who follow the lady of the harvest. The earth mother or what ever you call her.
Who wander and ensure good births of livestock or defend a layline thats being used by a death priest to train the land of life.

>I always liked the way that egyptian gods fuse together like giant robots
Somehow this needs to be a religion totally independently.

I've always found people disregard the symbolic power of the incest angle. The gods aren't perverts. They are all aspects of the divine. If you are all parts of the same thing any relationship you have will boil down to incest. I've always figured that when two gods are siblings and also lovers that's a ancient person way of saying that they are two sides of the same coin. They are two different ways of describing the same existence. And naturally these two aspects of godhood must share the same origin. Ie they are brother and sister, but also husband and wife, they beget each other, and each gives birth to the other. We're talking about fertility gods in particular so take two different aspects of fertility (the male and female) and split them apart. When they come together again something new is created. Everyone knows that only sex can create new life. I'm reminded of the sun god that dies at the end of each day only to be born once again from his sister/wife/mother each morning. He spends each day driving the sun across the sky and fighting a giant serpent. There's something really symbolic about a god giving birth to itself. Something I guess the epytians really picked up on.
As for the combining part they seem to combine when a new pharaoh tries to introduce a new god and basically slapping the older god's name on top is a quick and easy way to explain what your god is like. Politics of course makes for strange befellows and pharoahs being worshiped as gods, trying to wrench power away from the preisthood by introducing new gods, or re-introducing an old god eventually you just start running out of names and they peasants already worship a particular god so just making them add a new name to their god is easier than making them worship a whole new one. Probably a similar idea to the Romans borrowing the Greek pantheon wholesale and just slapping new names on them.

It still all falls apart when you attempt to emulate those gods and start fucking your own siblings.

>The gods aren't perverts.
Have... Have you seen what the gods actually do in their spare time?

dadgods with dadbods

Fucking Jab.

>Would a fertility goddess promote incest or not?
Only if it involves impregnation

>so I can jack the shit out of them.
Hm. Buff pregnant women seems awfully niche, but if it's you're thing...

Considering a woman can't get pregnant without a man, how about a fertility couple?

From PF:
Erastil, the elk headed god of the hunt, family and forest.
Gozreh, the twin aspected god/dess of sky and sea who rules over all of nature.
Pharasma, the goddess of death and birth.
Lamashtu, demon goddess of monsters.
And several lesser beings, gods inspired from real life, and other things.

D&D proper
Ehlonna, goddess of Forests, Woodlands, Flora, Fauna, and Fertility
Yondalla, the goddess of Protection, Fertility, the Halfling Race, and a bunch of other stuff that I decided to cut from the wiki page.
And I don't want to even go through the fuckton of additional race specific pantheons who each have their own fertility gods. And the giant fuckign list of other gods found in non core books. And the ones from all the various settings dating all the way back to 1e. And the ones imported from real life gods.

D&D has had plenty of fertility gods, it's just not shoved in your face, it's just quietly listed among all the other things.

>Fertility couple
>Act like a stereotypical dysfunctional married couple, complete with bickering and lots of petty spiteful acts towards each other
>Have a fuckton of god children
>Still won't stop having kids.
>Despite how strained the relationship seems they still love each other deeply, and would never leave each other
>Actually raised their kids to not be (total) cunts
I'd ship it.

Why are fertility gods always portrayed with only one vagina, one womb and only one pair of breasts? Shouldn't the GOD OF FERTILITY have way more of those?

Why can't they be functional?
Not everyone comes from a broken home, user

Why can't they have their feuds and arguments and still love each other?
Not every relationship has to be perfect, user.

>sexual purity is a big deal
Go back to Saudi-Arabia.

No one said that.

Clearly it's a big deal for her, since she built her career on how sexually pure she isn't.
Remember, not every porn star does anal, and whenever they say "no" to an anal scene, it loses them business.

>Tfw have been waiting for a moment like this to storytime but can't because of class in half an hour
If this thread is still up by the time I get back I might but long story short I once ran a game where the party ended up being chosen ones for the various Gods unique to the setting, getting some minor power in exchange for performing a simple task of some sort. All the while finding out what made the Gods Gods and furthering their own goal by collecting the 9 magic Macguffins for unlimited power.

Two years later turns out they were all being puppeted by the Big Bad Evil God and they inadvertently caused the End of the world by letting the party Barbarian don the Goddess of War's armor and opening up a method for Nyarlathotep to manifest in the material world. That was before they were sent back in time to the last era where Chosen Ones had to put up with their Gods shit, only with less interference.

Ever since that campaign my players have had an immense distrust for divines of any kind, to the point where one player outlawed worship of Erastil in a region during a Kingmaker game and another player starting his own game with the tagline "The Gods are Dead, Fuckyeah Humanity"

Homebrewed this after the last fertility god thread i saw, will post later. I'd like some input/ideas.

In a culture with a high infant mortality rate, it makes sense for the fertility goddess to also be a death goddess. Also possibly the goddess of debits and borrowing. Everything is borrowed from her and will ultimately be returned.

>We really need to figure out how to shut down that f-list chatroom so that the people there stop coming here already.

Actually, a better idea would be figuring out how to teach you to ignore threads you don't like so you don't think you have to reply to every thread on the board.

delivering, bear in mind this was originally drawn up for D&D 3.5, so some things can be ignored.

Sygdes & Saella

Alignment: Neutral Good
Domains: Animal, Good, Healing, Plant, Protection
Typical Worshippers: Druids, midwives, farmers
Favored Weapon: Longspear
Sygdes, the god of fertility, love, life, family, agriculture, growth, parenthood, and marriage, is neutral good. His title is The Father of Abundance. His followers include doctors, teachers, farmers, and people that have a fondness for children. He is always worshipped alongside his wife, Saella, The Mother of Abundance, who shares his dominions. Despite this, males are often said simply to follow Sygdes, and females, Saella, as a shorthand way of identifying their gods. Sygdes is said to give men the strength to provide for their families, while Saella is said to aid in childbirth and hearth keeping. Both give parents the patience and wisdom to raise their children well. Those who care for orphans, or take them in, hold great favor with The Parents of Abundance. Sygdes and Saella are depicted as various races, normally the same race as the artist depicting them. Sygdes is depicted as a tall, broad-shouldered, athletic-looking man. He is usually shown either standing happily with his wife, or defending his wife and sometimes a child. Saella is depicted as a woman with wide hips and ample breasts. She is usually shown either standing happily with her husband or caring for him or a child. Their holy symbol in is a circle in two halves, the middle is frayed in random shapes that fit together, but each is unique, so two halves of one symbol will not fit together. The two halves are normally worn together. One half has symbols associated with, or a depiction of, Sygdes, and the other, Saella. The domains that Sygdes and Saella are associated with are animal, good, healing, plant, and protection. Their favored weapon is the longspear.

Read up on Kali.

It is typical, though not required, that when followers of The Parents of Abundance are married, they are marry one another. In this case a new holy symbol is made, and the man will wear the Sygdes side, while the woman will wear the Saella side. These symbols are then warn in place of rings.

The longer the lifespan of a race, the more worshippers emphasize Sygdes and Saella as protectors of children over their aid in conceiving and bearing children. This is because longer lived races have longer childhoods, meaning that they are less likely to survive to adulthood.


Common symbols of Sygdes include: a sun, a white horse, and a sword and shield.

Common symbols of Saella include: a moon, a fox carrying a pup in its mouth, and a mortar and pestle.

My inspiration/desire for these is for them to be based on whatever style of hedonism it was that values the non self destructive pleasures, like love and fulfillment rather than instant gratification and whatnot.

>Universe where gods are made into real, physical entities and are given power by the collective beliefs, prayers, and desires of sentient creatures
>Alright Veeky Forums give me a fertility god!

Hoooo boy. Well, let's start one piece at a time.

>Would different religious/mythological/cultural/societal/racial ideals and beliefs make a difference?

HUGE. Like, if you have a very high-society race with lower base desires who see sex purely in a "messy but necessary act required to reproduce and propagate our race", your fertility goddess is just going to look a big glowing pregnant female of their race with very nurturing expressions, decked out in heavenly finery and surrounded by celestial and natal imagery. Sexual thoughts of her would be seen as barbaric, extremely disgusting and disrespectful, like thinking of sex with your own mother. The goddess' own actions would mostly correspond to giving out blessings of assured pregnancy, or fruitful (in either quantity or quality) births.

But if you have a race that tends to their base desires and praises the ultimate pleasure of sex along with reproduction that, if unchecked, may just go a little overboard at times, their fertility god(dess) is going to look very different. It's probably going to end up having a combination of the "best" traits of both males and females for that race, with heavily exaggerated sexual proportions of both sexualities too. "Worship" would likely be performed in some sexual manner, either alone or with a partner, and the god itself would likely be giving out free handjobs/titfucks/intercourse/magical-orgasms all the time to give mercy to the sexually frustrated and provide them with the peace of mind to properly worship. In fact, failing to get sexually aroused in the presence of such a god may be seen as disrespectful and questionable.

Pic related: Two very different "fertility goddesses".

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