The language of the goddess

Frog, hedgehog, and fish
Frog and toad
Hedgehog
Fish
Bull, bee, and butterfly
The bull and symbols of "Becoming"
Bucrania in subterranean tombs
The bull and the waters of life
"Bull flowers"
Bull-begotten bees and butterflies
The Minoan butterfly
The butterfly in folkore
Energy and unfolding
Spiral, lunar cycle, snake coil, hook and axe
Spiral
Lunar cycle
Snake coil
Hook and axe
Opposed spirals, whirls, comb, brush, and animal whrils
Opposed spirals, caterpillars, and snake heads
Whrils and four-corner designs
Brush and comb
Animal whrils and processions
Hands and feet of the goddess
Standing stones and circles
Conclusions
The place and funtion of the goddess
Continuity and transformation of the goddess in the Indo-European and Christian Eras
The world view of the culture of the goddess

The renewing and eternal earth
Earth mother
The pregnant goddess in the Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Copper age
Lozenge and triangle-with-dots as symbols of fertility
The sow, double of the goddess
Sacred bread
Hikk and stone (omphalos) as metaphor of the pregnant earth mother
The tomb is womb
Holed stones
The eternal earth mother
Power of two
Doubles
Double egg-shaped buttocks
The double-fruit or double-grain glyph
Two lines across a vulva, seed, egg, and the face, body, or buttocks of the goddess
Two double-headed goddess and mother-daughter images
The summer/winter duality
Male gods and daimones
Master of animals : animal-masked and robed men
Participants in rithuals
Fertility daimondes
The year god : a strong and dying vegetation god
Passion of the flax and the dying god

Vulva and birth
Earliest portrayals
In association with aquatic symbols, seeds, and sprouts
Exposed vulva and birth-giving posture
Birth shrines
Mistress of animals and the Queen of mountains
The life-giving goddess in historical times
Cretan Artemis, Eileithyia, Roman Diana, Venetic Rehtia
Irish and Scottish Brigit
Recapitulation
Deer and bear as Primeval mothers
The deer, sacred animal of the birth-giving goddess
The bear mother
Bear-shaped vases
Snake
The snake and snake coil in the Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic
The snake coil in association with aquatic symbols
The anthropomorphic snake of the Neolithic
The snake goddesses of the bronze and iron ages
The snakes goddess worshipped in house-shrines
The descendants of the prehistoric snake goddess and other snake deities in history and folklore
The persistence of snake worship to the 20th century
Male counterpart of the snake goddess
Hermes, snake, phallus, and Asklepios, the Savior-Healer
The snake as a household divinity

Eyes of the goddess
As a source of divine liquids
Vinca lids and marks
The "Eye goddess" of western Europe
As a snake coils, ram horns, and eyes of the sun
As cupmarks and wells
Open-mouth/beak of the goddess
On figurines and shrine models
The goddess as a container with open mouth/spout
Giver of crafts : associations with spinning, weaving, metallurgy and musical instruments
Spinning and weaving
Metallurgy and flint mining
Music
The ram, animal of the bird goddess
Ram horns as stair motif on Neolithic vases ans seals
The goddess's symbols on ram figurines
Fused with bird goddess features in one image
In later times and in European folklore
Net motif
In the Upper Paleolithic
Net-patterned squares in Neolithic caves
On amulets, seals, lids, and vase bases
The framed net : lozenges, circles, eggs, uteri, and vulvas on ceramics
Net and checkerboard
On spouted and anthropomorthic vases, figurines, and zoomorphic containers
Tri-line and power of three
On Upper Paleolithic images
On seals, figurines, and vases
Associations with the symbolism of "Beginning" and "Becoming"
Emanating from the mouth of the goddess

Published London : Thames & Hudson, 2006,

Language English

Material xxiii, 388 p.

ISBN 0500282498 / 9780500282496

BL 473.5 G491 2006 C.1

TCDC Bangkok - General Collection

BL 473.5 G491 2006 C.2

TCDC Bangkok - Closed Stack