Mother Goddess

We are seeing ancient bloodlines, who some call the "baby eaters”, willing to sacrifice their own young to their “Great Work”.

The statuette is handmade and solid and has a shaved surface. She is holding an infant in her left arm.This figurine is typical of Cypriot coroplastic art of the Late Cypriot II and III periods

Ancient Yemen Owl Goddess, 400 bce from the animism-shaman cultures of shaman women (talisman).

Berichten over cucuteni geschreven door Karin Haanappel

Through November 2014, the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Geneva will be exhibiting Nudités Insolites, a selection of unique pieces from the ancient world to the twentieth century, originating from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the pre-Columbian Americas. Throughout the centuries, in cultures across the globe, we find that images of nudity are often synonymous with maternity, power, virility, mortality, sexuality, and even comedy. This exhibition offers visitors an aesthetic and intellectual…

The study of prehistoric religion and ideology emerged as part of a reaction against the emphasis on "hard" facts, environmental reconstructions, settlement patterns, and subsistence data prevalent in archaeology beginning in the early 1960s. This newfound interest in the meaning […]

Existen un sinnúmero de teorías realizadas por varios historiadores donde proponen a Baal como el primer demonio existente, o al menos como el primer antecedente del diablo en las religiones judeocristianas.

The stunning ruins, an architectural jewel of the Middle East and a crossroads of the ancient world, are now in the clutches of jihadists likely to desecrate them as they did ancient sites in Iraq.