An early Halaf culture figurine from the Arjoune site in Syria. Pic from: Embodiment of the Halaf: Sixth Millennium Figurines from Northern Mesopotamia.
It is made from a natural pebble, and it depicts a female form, with large eyes with eyelashes and long hair. The very very very interesting bit is the pubic area, which is depicted as a square...
The Halaf culture is a neolithic early farming culture which flourished in the Fertile Crescent, in south-eastern Turkey, Syria, and northern Iraq, between about 6100 BC and 5100 BC...
The people from the same area, just slightly later, made this figurine which I interpreted as the depiction of the Fertile Mother Earth between two great rivers, Tigris and Euphrates
Figurine of a nude "woman" form Yarim Tepe, Iraq. Ubaid period, 5000-4000 BCE. Iraq Museum...
So I am convinced that whoever made this figurine in Arjoune, knew very well what vulva looks like...The fact that here we have vulva depicted as a square, makes me believe that what we have here is a depiction of the fertile Mother Earth, and more specifically Mother of grain...Where the square vulva represents a grain field...
Remember this:
Inanna spoke:
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As for me, Inanna,
Who will plow my vulva?
Who will plow my high field?
Who will plow my wet ground?
...
From: "The Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi"
More about depictions of Mother Earth, Mother of Grain, can be found in my article "Altyn Tepe mother of grain", in which I talk about this BMAC figurine...Again Mother Earth, Mother of Grain, Goddess, just different mountains and rivers...
Another Early Halaf figurine depicting female form with square pubic area. Tell Kurdu...Pic from: Embodiment of the Halaf: Sixth Millennium Figurines from Northern Mesopotamia.
Late Halaf figurine. Discovery location unknown. Pubic triangle on front with line representing vulva and dots representing pubic hair. On back, two ears of grain...
Pic from: Embodiment of the Halaf: Sixth Millennium Figurines from Northern Mesopotamia.
Mother Earth turned Mother of grain, true and true...
Most common Halaf figurine depicted voluptuous female form covered in horizontal stripes. Are these supposed to be furrows?
The Halaf farmers used the scratch plow?
ReplyDeleteYou can make furrows without ploughs...
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