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The mother of us all,
The earliest artifacts of the Goddess were not intended to represent mortal women. The great round breasts and bellies were symbolic of the mysteries of birth, cycles and fertility. The ancient primordial Mothers represent the eternal creativity of woman and of the Earth herself. Thousands of figures such as these have been found across Europe, dating back to 30,000-25,000 B.C. The Goddess movement of the present day has its roots in the primal creative force of the people who crafted these powerful images. The figure must have represented some mythic personage so well-known to the period that the reference of the elevated horn would have been as readily understood as, say, in India, a lotus in the hand of the goddess Shri Lakshmi, or in the West, a child at the breast of the Virgin. Joseph Campbell, The Way of the Animal Powers |
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