![]() ![]() In comparing written descriptions of these female figures, the authors examine texts from the Old Irish tale, “The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel,” the text of an erotic Scandinavian story and a text describing the birth of Kali. ![]() The authors find several new cross-cultural reference points to a group of related female figures. 9000 BCE, and existing from the beginning of the second millennium of this era up to the present era. These very similar female figures were depicted in Anatolia, Europe, Southern Asia, and East Asia, in a broad chronological sweep, beginning with the pre-pottery Neolithic, ca. ![]() It is a look at female display figures both cross-culturally and cross-temporally, through texts and iconography, beginning with figures depicted in very early Neolithic Anatolia, early and middle Neolithic southeast Europe––Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia––continuing through the late Neolithic in East Asia, and into early historic Greece, India, and Ireland, and elsewhere across the world. This book discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in several ancient cultures, from the Near East and Asia, and throughout ancient Europe in prehistoric and early historic iconography, their magical qualities are often indicated by a magical dance or stance. ![]() Written by Miriam Robbins Dexter and Victor H. ![]()
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