Goat of rain from Andros

This is a very interesting thread about the Late Neolithic settlement (4500-3300 BC) on the Greek island of Andros in the Cyclades...

The thread is full of great info and pics of the site and of the artefacts found on the site. 

One artefact being particularly cool...This one: it is an engraved stone, which if I am not mistaken, depicts an Ibex goat, surrounded by dots...

On ancient artefacts from Eastern Mediterranean, dots were used to depict rain, rain drops...And Ibex goat was used to depict the rain season...Cause the start of the mating season of Ibex goats (Oct/Nov) coincides with the start of the rain season the area...

Andros climate chart...

This makes this artefacts very very interesting indeed...

I talked about symbolism of ibex goats in many of my posts, like 

Europe:

"Pitys", "Goat in European culture", "Patera of Rennes"... 

Levant:

"The tree of life/light", "Lachish animal calendar"...

Mesopotamia:

"Feast plaque from Louvre", "Green pastures", "Problems with Abzu", "Relief from Dur Sharrukin", "Goatfish"...

Iran: 

"Flamingos from Susa", "Goat carrier", "Iranian goat of rain", "Strider", "A vessel from Tepe Hissar"...

That's it. To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...