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  2. Venus figurine - Wikipedia

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    Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine. The Vénus impudique, which was the figurine that gave the whole category its name, was the first Palaeolithic sculptural representation of a woman to be discovered in modern times.

  3. Mother goddess - Wikipedia

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    Mother Goddess sculpture from Madhya Pradesh or Rajasthan, India, 6th-7th century, in the National Museum of Korea, Seoul. A mother goddess is a major goddess characterized as a mother or progenitor, either as an embodiment of motherhood and fertility or fulfilling the cosmological role of a creator-and/or destroyer-figure, typically associated the Earth, sky, and/or the life-giving bounties ...

  4. Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia

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    The statuette, one of several iconographically similar ones found at the site, is similar to other corpulent prehistoric goddess figures, [4] of which the most famous is the Venus of Willendorf. It is a neolithic sculpture shaped by an unknown artist, and was completed in approximately 6000 BC.

  5. Matres and Matronae - Wikipedia

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    Matres and Matronae appear depicted on both stones with inscriptions and without, both as altars and votives. All depictions are frontal; they appear almost exclusively in threes with at least one figure holding a basket of fruit in her lap and the women are either standing or sitting.

  6. Venus of Willendorf - Wikipedia

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    The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago. [1] [2] It was recovered on 7 August 1908 from an archaeological dig conducted by Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier, and Josef Bayer at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria.

  7. Cybele - Wikipedia

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    Cybele enthroned, with lion, cornucopia, and mural crown.Roman marble, c. 50 AD.Getty Museum. Cybele (/ ˈ s ɪ b əl iː / SIB-ə-lee; [1] Phrygian: Matar Kubileya, Kubeleya "Kubeleya Mother", perhaps "Mountain Mother"; [2] Lydian: Kuvava; Greek: Κυβέλη Kybélē, Κυβήβη Kybēbē, Κύβελις Kybelis) is an Anatolian mother goddess; she may have a possible forerunner in the ...

  8. Leto - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Leto in the Yelagin Palace, St. Petersburg. Leto was identified from the fourth century onwards as the principal local mother goddess of Anatolian Lycia, as the region became Hellenized. [11] In Greek inscriptions, the children of Leto are referred to as the "national gods" of the country. [12]

  9. Cōātlīcue - Wikipedia

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    Coatlicue (/ k w ɑː t ˈ l iː k w eɪ /; Classical Nahuatl: cōātl īcue, Nahuatl pronunciation: [koː(w)aːˈt͡ɬiːkʷeː] ⓘ, "skirt of snakes"), wife of Mixcōhuātl, also known as Tēteoh īnnān (pronounced [teːˈtéoʔˈíːnːaːn̥], "mother of the gods") is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huītzilōpōchtli, the god of the sun and war.

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