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The
Primordial
 Goddess
 |   | This predynastic terra cotta figurine with bird-like face (3,000 B.C.) is a 
        precursor of the later traditional Egyptian art. (Clay sculpture at left 
        re-created by Dzintars Mezulis, private collection.) Her image has also appeared as a stone drawing on a cave wall in Algeria 
        from the paleolithic period.
 It has been thought that such figures are in a dancing attitude.
 Another interpretation is that the activity is religious, whether as prayer, 
        invocation, or magical conjuring.
 Read profound mumbo jumbo 
        here by Erich Neumann. |