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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.
The blocks known as the Trilithon (the upper of the two largest courses of stone pictured) in the Temple of Jupiter Baal. The Trilithon (Greek: Τρίλιθον), also called the Three Stones, is a group of three horizontally lying giant stones that form part of the podium of the Temple of Jupiter Baal at Baalbek.
Two of the earliest known possible depictions of fertility in art are the Venus of Willendorf (c. 25,000 BCE), an oolitic limestone figurine of a woman whose breasts and hips have been exaggerated to emphasise her fertility found in Austria and the Fertility Goddess of Cernavoda (c. 5,000 BCE) found in Romania, a small figurine that is meant to ...
The fertility stone has an opening on one side. The tribes of central Australia have... a huge rock known as Erathipa, which has an opening in one side from which the souls of the children imprisoned in it watch for a woman to pass by so that they may be reborn in her. When women who do not want children go near the rock, they pretend to be old ...
Eagle stone amulet, seventeenth century, from the Bavarian and Austrian amulet collection of W. L. Hildburgh, originally gifted to the Wellcome Museum. In the magical tradition of Europe and the Near East (see: Magic in the Greco-Roman world ), the aetites (singular in Latin ) or aetite ( anglicized ) is a stone used to promote childbirth .
Patrick S. Dinneen also gives Síle na gCíoċ, stating it is "a stone fetish representing a woman, supposed to give fertility, generally thought to have been introduced by the Normans." [ 8 ] Other researchers have questioned these interpretations [ 2 ] – few sheela na gigs are shown with breasts – and expressed doubt about the linguistic ...
The Chiefly Warrior cult, the Earth/fertility cult, and an Ancestor cult. [2] The stone statues found seem to represent different aspects from each of these three major divisions of Mississippian religious life. The Cahokian-style pieces represent figures from the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex and earth/fertility goddesses.
A small, weather-damaged female figure carved from limestone on a window of the Catholic abbey was once thought to be a representation of Gobnait. It is now believed by archaeologists to be a Sheela na gig, a type of erotic/fertility stone carving sometimes placed on the walls of Romanesque churches (11th–12th centuries). By tradition, female ...
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