![]() ![]() These Goddesses often carried the iconography of bird and snake. I believe that some-or many-of them represent powerful Goddesses of the life continuum: birth, death, and regeneration. I theorize (along with many others, such as Gheorghe and Magda Lazarovici and Marco Merlini, Marija Gimbutas and Harald Haarmann), that the Danube Script was first used for religious purposes, rather than economic purposes as it was, for example, in Mesopotamia.Ībstract: Thousands of female figurines have been excavated from Neolithic prehistoric archaeological sites. In this paper, I discuss ancient female figurines and the proliferation of the sacred V, as well as a particular correlate of this form, the female in "Sacred Display," where the female figure, in both ritual dance and stance, displays her sacred genitals. As well, the M figured in a sacred dance. The paper theorizes that one of the most important symbols of the Script, the V, which was amplified with diacritics, doubling (VV), and doubling/reversal (M), had at its core a religious symbolism, that of the female pubic triangle. ![]() In that paper I discussed the fact that the Danube Script is essential in understanding the possible intersections of language, archaeology, and religion/myth. This paper builds upon one I gave in Sibiu, Romania, a few years ago. ![]()
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