Comparison: Mesolithic And Pre-Potter

Gimbutas argue that the eyes of the goddess are the divine source. This was idea had been seen on the figurine from Dolni Vestonice, there was marking of stream flowing down the body starting at the eyes. They were clear markings of this in figure 86 , on the figurine it shows the flowing starting at the eyes, and it ended up on the breast or maybe even down more than that. There were also some other artifacts found representing the same idea from Mesolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic periods, there was moisture found near the eyes. This idea was even transformed into the later period on the pebbles in Jordan Valley Yarmukian sites of the Pottery Neolithic A; these had marking on them from like the stream running down the pebbles. We can see …show more content…
Most prints of the hand that was found were women 's and they were arranged in special patterns like in groups and rows. The cave of Upper Paleolithic caves had hand prints on them which meant the cave was protected by goddess like shown in figure 484. There were drawings of animals on it as well. Maybe the hand prints were supposed to protect the animals to help them survive or maybe even to use that there were animals that they used and depend on. In the shrine of catal huyuk there was two different color hands prints were present connected by honeycomb or nets. Red color symbolizes life and black fertility promoting the process of becoming. Some hands are upright; others are straight showing different attitudes with two parallel rows. They also have holes in them and in some of them there is design inside the holes. In the figure 486 in another shrine three bull head with honeycomb design on its face. There head in on top of two panels. The first panel contains three different layers with somewhat mixture of designs. The first layer of the first panel is drawings of egg or fish shaped oval. Then the middle layer background in all black circles inside circles, different signs like x , plus and equal etc. The final panel layer is with hands design starting out with vertical then horizontal repeating all the way through the end. These hands have holes or circles in the palm of the hand. The second panel is filled with hands the background in filled with dots. Hands are depicted on Neolithic or Copper age vases but not in the Europeans shrine. For example one of figure the large hand is main design of that vase and some figurines also have large