Worship of the great Earth Mother could do it, I think. This was a seriously widespread and powerful cult, in the Hellenistic and early Roman worlds. It continues today, albeit with the Virgin Mary as the "mother" figure. Such was the power of this cult, that it was even able to absorb Judaism- there were Jewish communities in Seleucid Anatolia that acknowledged the Earth Mother in her guise as Kybele as the consort of Yahweh!