The Willendorf Goddess

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Looks much like the Lajja Gauri. An abstracted head with a thousand

holes, eyes, petals? on (in this case) an opulent female body with

explicit genetalia. To quote a catalogue

 

"Venus of Willendorf:

The overwhelming number of female figurines found in Europe from the

Upper Paleolithic period, 35,000 - 25,000 BC were at first ignored

and discredited as mere toys or a form of sexual figures carved by

early men to satisfy their own fantasies. But their sheer numbers,

and the fact that many appear to have been wedged into

carved "altars" indicated something much more significant. Of all

the articles of worship ever found from the earliest periods of

prehistory, female figures far outnumber any other type."

 

In fact a recent type of Willendorf figurine was found at Berekhat

Ram, Golan Heights, in Israel or Syria (I'm not sure which). It is

now known as the Acheulian Goddess and has been dated at between

232,000 - 800,000 years old!!!