Ancient Beliefs
...o the people, assuring success in hunting, planting and human conception. His “hump” was often considered a bag of gifts, a sack carrying seeds of plants and flowers, blankets and babies, he would scatter every spring. Warming the Earth by playing his flute and singing songs, Kokopelli would melt the winter snow and create rain ensuring a good harvest. Kokopelli often played a long phallus flute, symbolizing the fertile seed of human reproduction. Min, the Egyptian fertility god, was in a mummified human form with an erect penis. He held a flail in his raised right hand and wore a crown surmounted by two tall plumes. Min was a god of male sexuality, and in the New Kingdom he was honored in the coronation rites of the Pharaohs to ensure their sexual vigor and the production of a male heir. The “white bull” appears to have been sacred to him, as was a type of lettuce which bore a resemblance to an erect penis and had a white sap that resembled semen. In addition to his role in coronation rites, Min was honored in harvest festivals during which offerings of lettuce and wheat was given to him. Min was also worshipped as a god of desert roads and of travelers. Bridget is perhaps the most well known of all the Celtic goddesses. Her following was so strong that the Catholic Church absorbed her as St. Brigit, the foster-mother of Christ, and kept her festival as the feast of St. Bri...