Rites performed to promote the fertility of land, animals or people: the Maypole Dance of northern Europe and the wider class of fertility rites known from agricultural societies. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes a rite whose stated aim is fertility or the returning growth of spring. It excludes rites of marriage and birth, which sit in the life cycle subcategory. Examples in the atlas include The Maypole Dance.
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Fertility rite (Wikipedia)
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Fertility rites are religious rituals that are intended to stimulate reproduction in humans or in the natural world.
Maypole (Wikipedia)
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A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on 1 May or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in some countries it is instead erected during Midsummer (20-26 June).
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