Also What Did That Being Symbolize?
2007-11-28 12:56:53 · 16 answers · asked by Donny 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why, that would be the Great Mother Goddess, who symbolizes life, sex, fertility, abundunce and love!
Hail Goddess, Hail Yes!
(NOT ONE male deity in many of those digs. Only Uterati.)
ETA: The Golden Calf carved by the Hebrews is a symbol of Hathor, an Egyptian Goddess. There are passages where the people tell Moses they were better off when their women burned incense to the Queen of Heaven. Damned straight they were!
2007-11-28 13:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Morgaine 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Early humans had an animistic idea of the metaphysical, believing that everything had a spirit, so they carved any thing their culture valued, usually an animal that they found to be sacred. Oh yeah, they also carved fertility gods and goddesses with exaggerated reproductive organs or breasts. The fertility goddess with exaggerated breasts could have represented the fertility of the earth as well as the people.
2007-11-28 21:00:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to hazard a guess- your question is very vague- and say the so-called "venus" figures found carved in stone and ivory all across Europe, dating to the neolithic period. They are believed to have represented the fertility of Mother Earth. They usually depicted a female form with generously endowed breasts, belly, and hips.
2007-11-28 21:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by Amalthea 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
According to my friend who is an archaeologist, the most early carvings of a deity was of an earth mother goddess.
The whole sky father thing was a much later development.
2007-11-28 21:00:34 · answer #4 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
hehe the Divine being was actually a Divine fungus. they drew mushrooms and weird people with mushrooms heads. It's arguable that entheogens were the first divine beings.
They couldn't even consieve gods at the point they discovered mushrooms made them hallucinate but they knew it was an important experience and maybe made them think of divine beings or the importance of. they invented spirituality.
2007-11-30 02:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Early cave drawings show individuals in flying machines drawn on the walls. Perhaps Roswell wasn't a weather balloon.
2007-11-28 21:02:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in exodus the hebrews carved a golden calf befor moses brought the 10 comandments down from mt. Zion
2007-11-28 20:59:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe it was the mother goddess at one time. Female fertility statues or something.
2007-11-28 21:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by Peter R 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably muda, the creatrix. from whose womb came the world and all that is in it. fertility was important to early men.
2007-11-28 21:01:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The most universal seems to be the "Earth Mother"
2007-11-28 21:04:03 · answer #10 · answered by Helmut 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋