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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... tion of the V , sacred sign of the Goddess . Mesolithic Maglemosian engravings on bone objects from northern Germany and Zealand , Denmark , of stick figures FIGURE 25 O FIGURE 25 This conven- tion continues in the Mesolithic , as in ...
... tion of the V , sacred sign of the Goddess . Mesolithic Maglemosian engravings on bone objects from northern Germany and Zealand , Denmark , of stick figures FIGURE 25 O FIGURE 25 This conven- tion continues in the Mesolithic , as in ...
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... tion of eyes by snake coils was a widespread phenomenon in both south- eastern and western Europe . The fusion of the two disparate elements into a sin- gle symbolic expression held for Old European artists a special fascination , to ...
... tion of eyes by snake coils was a widespread phenomenon in both south- eastern and western Europe . The fusion of the two disparate elements into a sin- gle symbolic expression held for Old European artists a special fascination , to ...
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... tion of the periodicity of nature based on the cycles of the moon and the female body led to the creation of a strong belief in the immediate regenera . tion of life at the crisis of death . There was no simple death , only death and ...
... tion of the periodicity of nature based on the cycles of the moon and the female body led to the creation of a strong belief in the immediate regenera . tion of life at the crisis of death . There was no simple death , only death and ...
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