Betreff: Re: Golden idol of fertility Bastel-thread

---

Solche Fruchtbarkeitsidole gibt es ja tatsächlich und diese Figur war dann wohl die Vorlage für das Raiders-Idol :


THE ORIGINAL SCUPTURE IS FROM THE AZTEC AND TOLTEC MAYAN
CULTURE CLASSIC PERIOD 200 - 900 AD

TLAZOLTEOTL
ALSO CALLED
IXCUNA OR IXCUINA

THE GODDESS IS SHOWN DROPPING HER BUTTOCKS IN THE TYPICAL CROUCHING POSITION OF A WOMAN IN CHILDBIRTH
THIS EMOTIONAL PIECE IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES OF AZTEC SCULPTURE
TLAZOLTEOTL

A MOTHER EARTH GODDESS
THE GODDESS OF HUMAN FERTILITY OF SEXUALITY AND CHILDBIRTH
DIRTH GODDESS OR EATER OF FILTH
THE GODDESS OF RITUAL CLEANSING
SHE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOON
PROTECTOR OF MIDWIVES - HEALERS AND THOSE WHO TELL FORTUNES
SHE REMOVES SINS FROM HER WORSHIPPERS BY ABSORBING THEM INTO HERSELF
MOTHER OF THE CORN GOD - CINTEOTL
ALSO KNOW AS THE GODDESS OF WITCHES
SHE IS ONE OF THE NINE FIGURES OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
AND IS CALLED

" THE MOTHER OF THE GODS "

(Quelle: http://cgi.ebay.de/...588ab30ef6)



http://www.goddessaday.com/mayan/tlazolteotl

---