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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 7260906" data-attributes="member: 92511">In that sense, of having different plants or planting purpose, associated with different deities, I am not sure. A quick google of nature deities seems to answer this fairly easily.The Greeks, of course, had the various nymphs that had different purposes: dryads for trees, meliae for flowers, naiads for fresh water/rivers/lakes, nereids for the sea/salt water. Dionysus (the Roman's Bacchus) was for grape growing, harvest, and naturally, then, wine and winemaking, associated with dolphins and leopards (wild animals), while Demeter (the Roman's Ceres) was specifically crops and grain and so agriculture and harvest/bounty specifically, while Artemis was forests and the creatures therein, specifically, along with the hunt and archery and the moon.The North and Meso-Americans had any number of deities responsible for the creation and cultivation of corn, usually a creator myth responsible for the civilization as a whole, granting beneficial rains and/or sunshine, which would be in contrast to any number of deities of wild places or dangerous animals, dangerous/bad weather (particularly in the north for winter, blizzards, etc...).The Celts & Germanic peoples have Cernunnos or Herne -wild animals, fertility, wild forests and the Green Man/Viridios for agriculture, vegetation in general, and multiple other gods associated with forests and trees, different trees being sacred to different deities.The Norse, not plants, of course, but you have Thor -who is the storm/thunder/lightning and warrior/battle lord, but then Freyr is rain, sunlight, the summer, virility/fertility (i.e. nice weather and good times), AND also Skadi who is winter (specific weather), but also archery and hunting...all different pieces of overlapping areas.The Mesopotamians/Sumerians has numerous gods and goddess of reeds, marshes, trees, and various aspects of vegetation.etc...etc...</blockquote>

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