Ritual bowl and female figurines from Ghelaesti, Romania (or maybe now Moldova, cant locate on google). They were found in a temple in the center of the village, ca 4000-3600 bce. The ritual find, assigned to the Cucuteni B1 phase (Cucos 1973), consists of six painted vases arranged in a circle around a large vessel intentionally placed over an egg-shaped, lidded vase. At the base of the vase, four figurines had been placed at the cardinal points. Two bore traces of red ochre, the other two had heads and feet painted black. The excavator interpreted the black-headed figurines as representing the chthonic sphere and the unpainted ones the uranian [sky] domain. Cucos saw it as a seasonal representation, because of the serpent, fruit, seed, egg symbolism. From Marija Gimbutas, The Earth Fertility of old Europe, p. 29 persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/dha_0755-7256_1987_num_13_1_1750?_Prescripts_Search_tabs1=standard& This is one of many ritual assemblages of figurines found in neolithic Balkan cultures. Others were found at Ovcharovo, Bulgaria; Sabatinovka, Ukraine; and Soburol Zeitelor, Romania (some 8 centuries older than the Ghelaesti find). These are just the ones that i know of.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 02:38:22 +0000
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