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[[seweryn2013]]
[[n-allen-r-woodard2013]]
### Def
- Role of Deities: to maintain and promote plant and animal fertility, to assure bountiful harvests, and generally to preside over matters of human physical well-being and comfort.
- Class: food-producers
- Def: "la fécondité, avec beaucoup de conséquences et de résonances, telles que la santé, la longue vie, la tranquillité, la volupté, le 'nombre." (g-dumezil 1952Bp7)
#### India
- [Aśvins](sky-sons-indian)
- [Sarasvatī](sarasvati.md)
#### Scythia
- The plow with yoke, and one of the elder brothers, in the [Scythian Origin Myth](scythian-origin-myth.md).