The Language of the Goddess: Unearthing the Hidden Symbols of Western CivilizationThe purpose of this book is to present the pictorial 'script' for the religion of the Old European Great Goddess, consisting of signs, symbols, and images of divinities. These are our primary sources for reconstructing this prehistoric scene and are vital to any true understanding of Western religion and mythology. |
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... chevrons and paral · lel lines , or as ivory figurines . ( FIGURE 1 ) Some representations of waterbirds are clearly anthropomorphized . In eastern Europe and Siberia , the V , as a single sign or repeated as a chevron , was connected ...
... chevrons and paral · lel lines , or as ivory figurines . ( FIGURE 1 ) Some representations of waterbirds are clearly anthropomorphized . In eastern Europe and Siberia , the V , as a single sign or repeated as a chevron , was connected ...
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... chevrons painted he intimate connection in thought and meaning between the V sign , the chevron , and the bird is manifested by the presence of a single V or chevron on bird - shaped vases FIGURE 6 called askoi , on bird figurines , and ...
... chevrons painted he intimate connection in thought and meaning between the V sign , the chevron , and the bird is manifested by the presence of a single V or chevron on bird - shaped vases FIGURE 6 called askoi , on bird figurines , and ...
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... chevrons and rows of tiny angles . These motifs link the instrument with the Bird Goddess ( see Marshack 1972 : figs . 43-56 ) . The same can be said about the Upper Paleolithic musical instruments from eastern Europe . Red chevrons ...
... chevrons and rows of tiny angles . These motifs link the instrument with the Bird Goddess ( see Marshack 1972 : figs . 43-56 ) . The same can be said about the Upper Paleolithic musical instruments from eastern Europe . Red chevrons ...
Contents
Foreword by Joseph Campbell | xiii |
Death and Regeneration | xvii |
Categories of Symbols | xxii |
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4th mill 7th millennium Anatolia animal anthropomorphic appear arms associated B.C. FIGURE bands beaked belly bi-line Bird Goddess birth-giving body bone breasts Bronze Age Bulgaria bull buttocks Çatal Hüyük cave central ceramics chevrons column Copper Age crescents Crete Cucuteni vase cult culture cupmarks death decorated deer deity divine Early Vinča Earth Mother egg-shaped engraved eyes female fertility figurines flanked France Gravettian Greece head incised Karanovo Late legs Lepenski Vir lithic lozenges Magdalenian Malta marked mask meanders megalithic tombs millennia millennium B.C. Minoan Moldavia motif mouth Neolithic net-patterned Old Europe Old European painted panels parallel lines passage grave portrayed pubic triangle regeneration relief ritual Romania sacred schematic sculptures seals Sesklo settlement shape shrine snake coils Snake Goddess spirals Starčevo stone symbols temple terracotta Thessaly tion Tisza tri-line Ukraine Upper Paleolithic uterus vessel Vinča culture vulva whirls womb Yugoslavia zig-zags