![]() ![]() They would create myths not of a singular Lord of the Universe but rather stories of a multifarious Goddess for whom the cycles of the great agricultural seasons became the enveloping world within which here people would create myths and rituals to forge temporal links between the earth and the stars above. ![]() ![]() Our Neolithic forbears inherited the world of the hunters and gatherers across our finite world. ![]() She was the Creator from whom all life-human, human, plant, and animal-arose, and to whom everything returned. But the sophisticated, complex art surrounding the Neolithic goddess is a shifting kaleidoscope of meaning: she personified every phase of life, death, and regeneration. The female force, as the pregnant vegetation goddess, intimately embodied the earth’s fertility. Renditions of the body expressed other functions, specifically the nourishing and procreative aspects of the female body and the life-stimulating qualities of the male body. I believe that in earlier times, obscenity as a concept surrounding either the male or female body did not exist. In religious art, the human body symbolizes myriad functions beyond the sexual, especially the procreative, nurturing, and life enhancing. ![]()
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