![]() Like many prehistoric artifacts, the cultural meaning of these figures may never be known. ![]() ![]() Of course, the true purpose of the artifact remains a mystery: The exaggerated sexual characteristics of the figurine - her large, pendulous breasts, full, rounded belly and pronounced vulva - seem to support the theory that the Venus was used as a sacred fetish object relating to fertility, perhaps in some sort of Mother Goddess worship. The most famous of these is the Venus of Willendorf, a small, carved stone figurine of an ancient woman with what could be best described as fleshy, Rubenesque proportions. Some of the earliest known artifacts of human prehistory are - or, at least, are believed to be - representations of female fertility and motherhood. It goes without saying that, as long as there’s been people, there’s been mothers. That flowers-and-Hallmark-card festival of “why don’t you call more often?” guilt we so lovingly refer to as Mother’s Day has just passed, so I thought it topical to dedicate a post to mother archetypes. ![]() ![]() The prehistoric figurine famously known as the “Venus of Willendorf”, which was made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. ![]()
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