one way or another; either in the overall sense, like French Celtic Andarta or Latin Vacuna, or else in some particular aspect of Fertility, like Aztec Cihuateteo (childbirth), Chaldean Eshara (productive fields), or Tamil Korrawi (the jungle). Others are associated with the Underworld with its various aspects of wisdom and judgment.
Surprisingly, some of the War gods from the list below are also connected with Fertility: Roman Mars, for one, as well as Celtic Lugh; others are significantly associated with either fire (the Sun) or storms (Rain), which are important factors in fertility. The Armenian Aray is actually himself the god who dies and is resurrected in the manner of the best known Gods of Fertility, while the Germanic Tyr is said to be a god of Justice, as Hindu Durga is.
Durga’s festival is celebrated in the autumn, in the months corresponding to September/October; and the Wikipedia comments that “The worship of Durga in the autumn is the year’s most major festival in East India.” These autumn months are when the monsoon’s torrential rains hit India, and again, these are both punishing by their destruction force and the killing of many people, and beneficial, by their being India’s main source of fertility.
Taking Durga as an example of an all-round War goddess, it has been said that she “protects mankind from evil and misery by destroying evil forces such as selfishness, jealousy, prejudice, hatred, anger, and ego”; in another site it is said that she “symbolizes triumph over evil.” But this idea of evil has not place in the pagan, natural scheme of things; it is an artificial idea, which fits more into the late Hindu religion of ideas than into the natural world,