#female figurines

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The Goddess Remembered

35,000 years of the goddess-worshipping religions - ©2008 Max Dashu of the ancient past

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

i found this awesome artist Libor Balák who paints a lot of prehistoric reconstructions for museums etc. i did already know some of his paitnings but wasn't aware what his name is... he deserves to be recognised for his works... so here are his reconstructions of the Lengyel culture taken from his website (one of my favourite cultures btw)

This Neolithic culture has left a distinctive archaeological signature centred in southern Moravia, but also included southwest Slovakia and adjacent parts of Austria and Hungary. Temporally belongs to late Neolithic – about 5000 B.C.

Colourfully decorated ceramics constituted a distinct element of this culture, which subsequently spread into northern Poland, Bohemia and central Germany. Apart from pots, ceramic spoons, ladles, cubic lamplets and models of various objects and structures are known from southern Moravia. This society also possessed advanced agriculture.

Model of a small dwelling is transformed into reality

Ceramic fragment labelled as a ship  is transformed into watercraft decoration – a monoxylon manufactured from a single piece of tree trunk

The meaning of the nakedness of the figurines is also controversial; some of the figurines could have had clothes painted on them..

The painting displays the technological stages of Venus figurine manufacture

The Middle European Lengyel statuettes are first of all of a high handcrafted quality and very decorative. The shapes and patterns are taken over from the earlier statuettes. Some of them bear specific anatomical and ethnographic elements, such as the Venuse with schematic curly hair.

This statuette has schematic straight hair.

One of the many pieces of the Venus figurines from Neolithic era, found in South Moravia. This fraction has a preserved coloration with geometrical patterns.The figurine is uncomplete, it could also have had complet clothing. 

The figurine of a woman in a skirt is decorated with ceramic lugs. The statuette could also be wearing a complete dress, not only a skirt on a bare body

The reconstructive transformation on this picture analyzes the skew elements in the place of the shoulder blades – it could be draped textiles

On this statuette found in Austria we can see the preserved traces of the original painting. The interesting fact is also the hole between it´s tights. It could serve for interlacing of the waistcloth or, less probably, for fixing of the figure to the base; the fingertips would hinder the perfect fixing. The image represents the possibilities of the painting interpretation – the decorative leggings on the tights, tattooes, paintings on the skin and a necklace in the form of boar tusks. We can also see the decoration on the neck.  

[ancientstuff]

Interesting discovery of a cave used as sanctuary from violent times.

[innervoiceartblog]

"A reminder to any woman who looks at her body and finds it flawed: these are prehistoric carvings of goddesses. These represent the epitome of feminine beauty to those we seek to emulate when we go on diets. Not a flat tummy, thigh gap, or gravity-defying breast among them.

These are bodies that are unique to their owners, and contain stories of desire, creation, hardship, and perseverance. These are bodies that are ready to hold you as you cry. These are bodies that worked every day to provide nourishment, resources and guidance to their communities while also caring for the next generation. They supported one another in their labor, holding one another’s babies while they worked crafting tools, collecting water & singing songs to teach the young about the goddesses they so closely resembled.

And these carvings weren’t found in just one area. They’ve been discovered nearly everywhere humanity has settled and thrived. Which means there was a time when womanhood, in all her power and capacity, was revered not as merely a sexual novelty or shunned as sinful temptation, but seen as a source of inspiration to create, to connect, and to find courage.

Today, our patriarchal society reveres conformity in women over all. It demands that women strive to achieve and maintain a form that resembles an untested girl. Our bodies must look perpetually untouched, unspoiled, a blank slate for a man to claim and use and write his own story upon. Instead of worshiping women as they are, we scrutinize and discard them as never good enough. And the more we strive to conform, the more we give up control of our bodies.

So have comfort, women: with each fat roll and jiggle you gain as you move forward in time, you come closer to resembling the goddess as she originally appeared in the hearts of humanity. She lives in you and longs to be seen and revered as she was before.

And you deserve to be worshipped."

~ Alaura Weaver

Photo source: http://albertis-window.com/2012/04/excavation-sites-for-prehistoric-and-ancient-female-figurines/

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Female Fertility Figurine.

Place of origin: Türkiye

Period: Neolithic

Date: 7th Millennium B.C.

Medium: Ceramic

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The Fireplace, 1994

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[blueiscoool]

8,000-Year-Old Female Figurine Found in Turkey

During the excavations carried out in the Ulucak Mound in the Kemalpaşa district of Izmir, an 8 thousand-year-old female statuette made of clay was found.

With the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Metropolitan Municipality, Kemalpaşa Municipality and Kemalpaşa Organized Industrial Zone , excavations continue in the 8,850-year-old Ulucak Mound, the oldest settlement in Izmir . Trakya University Faculty of Letters, Department of Protohistory and Near-Asian Archaeology, Prof. Dr. During this year's excavations at the mound, where Özlem Çevik took over the excavation directorate in 2009, an approximately 8 thousand-year-old female figurine was found.

Prof. stated that one of the first village settlements of Izmir was Ulucak Mound. Dr. Özlem Çevik said, "Ulucak represents one of the earliest farming village settlements in Western Anatolia. It is important for us to understand the neolithization process. The first settlement in the mound dates back to 8,850 years ago. Ulucak Höyük has been inhabited uninterruptedly for 1150 years, that is, for 45 five generations." We see that the neolithic settlement continues in this year's mound. One of the most important finds we have found so far is a female figure. Generally, we find parts of figures such as arms, legs and heads in Ulucak. "It is the 6th figure that has ever been found in its entirety," he said.

Emphasizing that the depicted female statuette can be predicted to have a privileged position within the community, Prof. Dr. Çevik said, "It may represent the person who lives here and tells stories in the community. It is made of clay. It is 8-10 centimeters in size. It can fit in a hand. It can be found inside houses, next to ovens, buried in pits under door thresholds, or in association with grinding stones , or in a "We find it associated with flints in the container. They may be ritual objects used to fulfill an intention, action or wish," he said.

Prof. pointed out that the most important element that distinguishes the female figurine found from others is that its mouth is indicated. Dr. Çevik said, "Because the figures usually show eyes and nose. In this figure, we see that the mouth is indicated as a hole, and a hole is made on the neck, which can be used as a jewelry."

[the-cricket-chirps]

Egyptian

Female Figurine, ca. 1938-1630 B.C.E.

Brooklyn Museum

[iidsch]

"It's so sad to see Dandadan get full of nazis" Any popular anime will eventually get a significant base of nazis and bigots because anime as a genre is filled with this kind of fans. And why wouldn't it be a hot spot for alt-right guys? Animes constantly treat women like sexual objects, poc are rarely represented and when they do it's often a racist caricature, pedophilia is rampant, characters are always European-coded with blue eyes and/or blonde hair and a lot of anime plots tap into men's insecurities and desires (see "loser and lonely guy suddenly becomes super powerful and has at least one pretty girl fall in love with him"). The average anime is build in a lab to appeal to this kind of people and it's progressive fans who are the exception. The only major genres I can think of that don't have this problem are yaoi and yuri, because gay couples and woman-centered stories are radioactive to nazis. Which means that in order to push nazis away from your anime you have to put some queers in it. In this essay I will-

[ancestorsalive]

The Venus of Dolní Věstonice is a Venus figurine of female figure dated to 29,000–25,000 BC. It was found at the Paleolithic site Dolní Věstonice in the Moravian basin south of Brno, in the base of Děvín Mountain in which is present-day Czech Republic.

Source: Ancient Library

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【Historical Artifacts Reference】

Chinese Tang Dynasty Female Figurines in “乌蛮髻/Wū mán Hairstyle”

some will put lotus flowers in the middle of the hair

[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty(618-907A.D) Traditional Clothing Hanfu & Hairstyle Based On Tang Dynasty Female Figurines

High Tang Period Women Attire and Hairstyle

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📸Recreation Work: @吃货娃娃

🔗Weibo:https://weibo.com/1868003212/MD7GFiYs0

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【Shangsi Festival/Double Third Festival/上巳節】

Double Third Festival or Shangsi Festival (traditional Chinese: 上巳節) is a Chinese festival celebrated on the third day of the third month of the Chinese calendar.

It is said that the origin of this festival comes from the Dinner Party at the Qushui River during the Zhou Dynasty (about 1100–221 BC). Others say its origins come from the ceremonial custom of getting rid of evils by bathing in the river. On this day, people would hold a sacrificing ceremony on a riverside to honor their ancestors, and then take a bath in the river with herbs to cleanse their bodies of filth. Following that, young men and women would then go for a spring outing in which many of these scenes were described in Shi Jing (The Book of Songs).

The Shangsi Festival activities have changed over the course of subsequent dynasties. The entertainment feast and praying for descendants along the riverside were added in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD). It was after the Wei and Jin dynasties (220–420 AD) that the festival developed into the Double-Third (Shangsi) Festival that is fixed on the third day of the third lunar month.

In modern times, to observe this festival, people would go for an outing by the water, have picnics, and pluck orchids. It is also a day for invoking cleansing rituals to prevent disease and get rid of bad luck. The day is also traditionally considered to be a possible birthday of the Yellow Emperor.

The ancient traditions of Shangsi are mostly celebrated by several communities spread out among the provinces today, such as the ancient village of Xinye

The great calligrapher Wang Xizhi mentions this festival in his famous work Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Poems, written in regard to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering during the Six Dynasties era.

The Han ethnic people in some places also have special customs on March 3rd. For example, Hunan and other places have the tradition of "March 3rd, boiled eggs with ground (shepherd's) purse", while Anhui and other places have the tradition of eating Baba( a kind of bread, with meat):

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"Red-headed goddess" - statuette from the early Neolithic period (archaeological site Donja Branjevina, Odžaci, Vojvodina, Serbia)