The
Primordial Goddess
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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. |