earth-god

Or earth god

[urth-god]

noun

1. a god of fertility and vegetation.

Example Sentences

A Chinese earth-god shrine sits next to the drink refrigerator, for protection and prosperity.

Read more on The New Yorker

If cattle were used in threshing the crop, it is believed that the earth-god would feel insulted by the dung and urine of the animals.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

Dedun was a Nubian god, who appears to have been a creative earth-god.

Read more on Project Gutenberg

In explanation it is said: "Fire is the earth-god, Wind, or Indra, is the god of the atmosphere, and the sun is the god of the sky."

Read more on Project Gutenberg

The earth-god Osiris, god of the living, had died and had been brought to life as god of the dead.

Read more on Project Gutenberg