Venus of Willendorf (was Re: Goddesses)

[jbor]

pictures here:

http://www.datap.ca/pbrown/museum/body/willendorfVenus.html
http://webserver.datap.ca/users/pbrown/museum/body/willendorfVenusInfo.html
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Collection/Objekte_PA_01_E.html

essay here:

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/

poem here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/komunyak/venus.htm


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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>

> When you two refer to "The Goddess Myth" it seems to me you fail to
> recognize the mutitude of goddesses and instead seek examine some
> intelectual synthesis.  Different goddesses have so many different
> qualities.  The present-day Virgin is "real" to multitudes around the world
> today.  She might be seen as a watered-down version of a more potenet
> predecessor, but there were many predecessors.  I suspect this is what jody
> means by pointing to the slightly-red herring "origin."