In the mythology of all countries there are deities linked to abundance. In France our first thought is often of Mother Nature or of Demeter who is waiting for the return of her daughter, Persephone, to bring spring back to humans. The goddess Abundantia is a Roman goddess of fertility and prosperity, who thanks to her cornucopia dispenses all her benefits on the world, more rarely she is associated with a jar of water or a sickle for wheat but Abundantia always personifies goodness, happiness.
The cornucopia was also represented in the cult of Mithras, in fact other sources present Mithras as the one who will return the artifact to the goddess who names Fortuna or Abundantia and thus the return of the golden age and abundance, just as in the story of Demeter she ends the period of barren lands to offer us fertile land.
Others associate her with the goddess Ceres or Annona, whom Nero put together like two sides of the same coin. In this same spirit we can compare her to the Japanese goddess Inari or Dewi Shri (Javanese), Nyai Pohaci Sanghyang Asri (Sundanese), the White Bison Woman for the Lakota Native Americans or even Mâhâ Laksmi representing the Absolute in the Hinduism and from its vase, the Akshayaz Patra, wisdom and abundance are born.
Its fertility function which could have been given to both female and male deities. In Aztec mythology there were also deities linked in some way to abundance, let us say rather interdependent like Tlaloc, divinity linked to water, from his full name Tlalocantecuhtli "the one who makes the flow" "the one who sows", which could in turn make us think of Ryūjin 龍神 Japanese god of the ocean who controls the tides which may be linked to agricultural rituals for its rain.
What is certain is that we could travel across the world, through time, and we would see that there have always been common traits and those who like parallels will always to see one big story, that of humanity.
We chose this name because the expectation of renewal seemed to us a very good hope and in this expectation we are doing our best to keep an outstretched hand.
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