As we have in the previous chapter, some art images and objects were created and used for the purpose of securing food cave paintings, elaborate masks. wood carvings. and ceramic sculptures helped the hunter-gatherer and farmer to ensure an abundant food supply Likewise, art and art objects have functioned similarly to ensure human reproduction, again with sympathetic magic invoked through art objects.
FERTILITY GODDESSES AND GODS
Some of the earliest artifacts thought to relate to human fercility come from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of history some were small sculptures of female figures. depicted as abundantly fleshy and swollen, with their bellies. breasts. and thighs accentuated. They are called fertility or Mother Goddesses suggesting that they wear part of a fertility ritual and cult.(Figure 8. is a well-rounded abstracted female figure, only four inches high, carved from found, egg-shaped piece of limestone. The ancient artist-carver may have believed that the power of fertility was already conrained in the natural egg-shape of the stone even before it was carved. Its shape, along with the narural indentation that became the navel, may have been the reason the artist chose it. The figure was discovered near a hearth ar an excavation site near the town of Willendorf, Austria, in 1908. The small, Paiolithic sculpture was considered part of the Gravettian culture dating approximately berween 30,000 and 18,000 BCE. The name"Venus" was given arbitrarily to the female figurines by the archaeologists who found them
As we have in the previous chapter, some art images and objects were created and used for the purpose of securing food cave paintings, elaborate masks. wood carvings. and ceramic sculptures helped the hunter-gatherer and farmer to ensure an abundant food supply Likewise, art and art objects have functioned similarly to ensure human reproduction, again with sympathetic magic invoked through art objects. FERTILITY GODDESSES AND GODS Some of the earliest artifacts thought to relate to human fercility come from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of history some were small sculptures of female figures. depicted as abundantly fleshy and swollen, with their bellies. breasts. and thighs accentuated. They are called fertility or Mother Goddesses suggesting that they wear part of a fertility ritual and cult.(Figure 8. is a well-rounded abstracted female figure, only four inches high, carved from found, egg-shaped piece of limestone. The ancient artist-carver may have believed that the power of fertility was already conrained in the natural egg-shape of the stone even before it was carved. Its shape, along with the narural indentation that became the navel, may have been the reason the artist chose it. The figure was discovered near a hearth ar an excavation site near the town of Willendorf, Austria, in 1908. The small, Paiolithic sculpture was considered part of the Gravettian culture dating approximately berween 30,000 and 18,000 BCE. The name"Venus" was given arbitrarily to the female figurines by the archaeologists who found them
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