Ritual
bowl and female figurines from Ghelaesti, Romania (or maybe now
Moldova, can't locate on google). They were found in a temple in the
center of the village, ca 4000-3600 bce. "The ritual find, assigned to
the Cucuteni B1 phase (Cucos 1973), consists of six painted vases
arranged in a circle around a large vessel intentionally placed over an
egg-shaped, lidded vase. At the base of the vase, four
figurines had been placed at the cardinal points." Two bore traces of
red ochre, the other two had heads and feet painted black. "The
excavator interpreted the black-headed figurines as representing the
chthonic sphere and the unpainted ones the uranian [sky] domain." Cucos
saw it as a seasonal representation, because of the serpent, fruit,
seed, egg symbolism.
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