lunes, 21 de octubre de 2013

Another megalithic woman from southern Ethiopia

Another megalithic woman from southern Ethiopia, one i haven't seen before. Over the years, more photos keep surfacing. This one is unlike others i've seen, especially in the face, and what looks like a comb hanging from her necklace, but she still has the breasts (faintly sculpted). However, she resembles one group of sculptures that bear a symbol archaeologists call signe ramifié / branched sign; it often looks like a vulva to me, and sometimes resembles millet or teff. The sign appears higher up the belly on some of the sculptures, or even low between the "legs" -- but not on this one. Hard to explain this; I'll do a webcast in future so you can see what i'm talking about. If you go back through the photos section, i posted about this before, with a comparison to traditional belly scarification of Anouak women. Their people used to live in this megalithic region but were displaced by the Oromo centuries ago.

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