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Female Fertility Statues

I have been thinking about the figures found all over the world of the woman with large breasts and a full-figured body. What do these objects dating back to the Paleolithic period symbolize, really?

Were they good luck charms? Some were small enough to be kept in pockets and rubbed like worry stones. Were they meant to represent pregnant women? Why do they appear, well, obese?

In my view, the figure looks more like an older woman, or a middle-aged woman, who has already given birth. Her breasts hang and do not appear to be those of a young female. Her body looks like it has lived and seen hard use.

Could this figure actually be one that symbolizes the older, wiser female? The shaman or medicine woman? The kind who has earned respect and is more likely to be a midwife than a young mother?

What if these figures, some dating back 25,000 years ago, are the origins of goddess worship that led to witchcraft and lost pagan religions worshiping a female deity?

See authors Raymond Buckland, Mary Zeiss Strange, or even Margaret Murray’s witch-cult hypothesis. Unfortunately, the true origins of magic and ancient deity worship are all but lost to modern religion and empirical knowledge. Intuitive knowledge is only acknowledged by a few.

Examples: See the Venus of Willendorf from Vienna, the Neolithic goddess figure found in Turkey, the Akua’ba African fertility statue, the Venus of Lespugue.