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Prehistoric Venus |
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Prehistoric Stone Age statuettes portraying seductive Venuses and exotic medicine men figurines and artifacts in a Native American Indian archeological site! |
Updated with New Stuff: 12/31/2011
In this Chapter:
Esoteric Eroticism: Throughout the ages, man has attributed stones with holes in them to be symbolic of the mystical qualities of woman. It appears some of the River Owl men were no exception. Likewise, stones with mammary-like protuberances were also not discarded when found. This is a fundamental and universal curiosity, not a perverted preoccupation.
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Femella nebula
This chalcedony seductress looks as if she is about to lilt into the air.
Hair tied up in a bun, she blushes back over her shoulder with erect
nipple. A blue and white botryoidal cavity forms an engagingly open
yoni between her "legs" which can be seen from behind and
while she is lying on her "back".
I found
the base stone when it washed out from the hill in 1998 and it was
so beautiful, I kept
it as a paper weight. In 2002 I found
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Somewhere in the primal seas of a young planet Earth 3.3 billion years ago, a tiny fast-moving cell joined with a large, slow-moving cell: The tiny cell found refuge within the large cell making the larger more energetic. This motility was the invention of sex and the partnership that developed has been an overwhelming hit ever sense. Especially since the mere act is rewarded with the sweet taste of co-emergent bliss - reflecting the origin our very being. This sparkling experience of sensual engagement has been embellished with attributes that have become increasingly expressive with the generation of each new species.
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Femella saltatrix Dancing is a human expression of happiness (and sometimes agitation). Breasts swaying with the chant, this beautiful figure seems to glide towards the viewer. Olive green Pennsylvanian Period glacial slate. 8.5"h; 1257 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
By 12,000 years ago the River Owl man was probably like any other stone age men around the world and expressed his sexual feelings by first dancing, usually in file with others. There were rituals for birth, puberty, marriage and initiations, which is probably when they danced most.
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Femella genialis
The unfathomable
mystery that is woman becomes
the human race.
Ecstasy is
not for the timid. This ancient Love Goddess dwells on the
pinnacle of sexual
bliss welling-up into a rising blush. Her jaw is locked open.
Her open yoni, coated with super-fine clear-quartz crystals,
sparkle glistening-wet with arousal. Sex creates more clan
members thus prosperity. It engages
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all
senses, heightening awareness. Some forms of shamanism as a
reflective discipline holds sex as a sacred act – offering a
taste of a broader and deeper state-of-being. Stacked wet. Milk
and honey chalcedony hips w
crystal-coated
botryoidal yoni/Butterscotch jasper breasts/Caramel jasper head,
3 parts. 6.5”h; 905 gm Goddess (Venus) worship has ancestral roots at the beginning of our civilization. But Venuses were not just worshipped for their beauty. The modern notion of "beauty" is based on criteria conditioned by selective objectivity (as impressionable teenagers, advertising tell us what beautiful is - symmetry being considered ideal).
Venuses on the other hand, were worshipped for their overall womanhood and how she handled herself in general. Stone Age woman was more sophisticated than many of us imagined: She wove fine plant fibers and made soft textiles for clothing.
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Femella succendo uterus This one is really eye-catching for two major reasons. One, she has a crystal eye - long gone cloudy with age and sandy soil. Two, her spine coils her into an arc as every muscle in her body tightens for the release. Her eyes squint and go vacant as her lower lip droops to the left side of her face as if to utter a groan from deep within her soul. Large breasts hanging off to the sides of her ribcage, tightened stomach muscles and twisted pelvis - poses her in such a way that only a man who has been with a woman at peak experience understands. Olive/cinnamon swirl jasper w crystal eye (There is a smooth semi-clear olive quartz "pillow" under her breast stone found with the figure), 4 parts; horizontal and vertical orientation. 3.0"h x 5.3"L; 472 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
"They designed string skirts, slung low on the hips or belted up on the waist, which artfully revealed at least as much as they concealed. They wove elaborate caps and snoods for the head, and bandeaux for the chest -- a series of straps that amounted to a cupless brassiere."[1]
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Femella ardor cor cordis
Since I couldn't stack any of these pieces, I went horizontal: This art went together like a jig-saw puzzle, but what came out stirred my soul. In many early societies the casting of stones and how they fell foretold fortune. This is probably where the game of craps originated. Here, these Ice Age Venus stones lay out the figure of a woman with red heart and yoni stones and for the holder, may have preempted fate for success in love. Cinnamon jasper w red jasper heart and blush jasper yoni (close-up below), 8 parts; horizontal orientation. 8.0L; 598 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
In many ways Woman is the primal sex, in-tuned with the moon and tides. It's little wonder that the wonder of woman has generally been ignored for the past thousands of years. Woman is why man strives for wealth, yet we men tend to think we are the center of any social situation. But we're not - the Mother principle is always central - and at the core of our very being.
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Femella messis The stones of this red, yellow and green (Salsa) chalcedony (a new classification of stone that we named) crop fertility figurine have been heavily handled. This idol may have been used to appease the spirits to bring forth good harvest. Though all 3 stones have all 3 colors, the color proportions vary: The reddish rootstalk-shaped hips (with oily sheen patina), the angle of the green foliage-like breasts, and the yellowish-white kernel-shaped head, all suggests the clan may have harvested or collected early corn (teosinte). Wait a minute. Corn cultivation isn’t supposed to happen until the Mississippian Indian period 1,200 years ago. But in 13 years we've found few Mississippian points nearby. In any case, early autumn colors must have signaled the clan to migrate south. Head also resembles shelled hazelnut, which still grows around here. The tip of her left breast is missing. Salsa chalcedony w original "sheen" patina, 3 parts. 5.3”h; 412 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
The prehistoric Venus figurines here are a striking examples of how important a role sex played in Stone Age life. There are other examples [2] of stone age erotica and prehistoric Venus figurines that have been discovered in Europe.
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Virgo luna With playful smile, her hair (tied into a pony-tail) flies up as she swings down to flash her inheritance. Like most figurines in our find, it's the head stone that first gets our attention. At first, I thought it to be of a man and suspected it lay on its side. But the body stones would not stack or lay out into any form that made sense - other than the way they turned out. The head was chipped S-curved to fit right up to the body and the legs can only fit with the figure bending over. When I found the breast stone, it started to make sense. Did girls really do that back then? Note the details of the natural eye, ear and blush nose. Her mouth may have been chipped out by the ancient artisan. The red hair (which covers the scalp perfectly) and red yoni stone with its natural internal extension, as well as the head and torso, all fit like puzzle pieces. Ginger jasper w heavy alkali patina (especially on the head stone) and auburn chalcedony hair and yoni, 7 parts; horizontal orientation. 4.6"w x 5.0"tall (about 5" sq.); 472 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
But to the Shaman and the Tantric initiate of today, sexuality is still a predominate issue in the pursuit of enlightenment. If the energy we normally associate with passion is not allowed to drop into an ordinary localized orgasm and is guided upward, a "psychic charge" is created. (Please refer back to Medicine Man.)
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Anicula dentis
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Sublimation of the sex drive is not the answer. That is just postponing the inevitable. It is the arousal and transmutation of sexual energy - the force that brought us here - that transcends the mundane and brings us back to the pure source of enlightenment. At the onset of puberty with our first orgasm this force dropped from the crown region and expressed itself in the genitals. At the moment of death (or at the threshold of enlightenment), this energy once again has the opportunity to rise above (or sink deeper into) rebirth.
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Virgo circumsurgens luna For some time, these two stones sat separately on my bookshelf mostly because they were found together but more importantly, stones from site 2601B, generally speaking, are rare. So even though this may be considered an abstract, I decided to publish this free-standing figure anyway. Her breasts extend to her sides and there is a cute pregnant belly with a navel. This pregnant Venus has a rising harvest moon for a head. And the moon stone is grooved so fits on top of this female torso stone which stands upright and conveys a universal concept. Jasper body with a pale yellow quartz crystal head ground round and smooth by the river. 2 parts. 2.6" H; 69 gm. $750 OBO Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
Like the alchemist philosopher's stone is used to transmute the base metal lead into gold, magical yoni stones (symbols of universal origin and mother principle), may have been used to transmute passion into enlightenment. Also review #11 Medicine Woman.
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66. Blushing Virgin: This free-standing hematite yoni charm is smooth from handling and heavy in weight for its size (hematite is a high-grade iron ore), this sensual rock was too unique to have been used as a tool and was valued more for its symbolic value. Bright red hematite, 2.0”h; 60 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
67. Two Wives:
This silky smooth and very rare
golden chalcedony yoni charm is a sensual delight to behold. The
top yoni with open lips contains glistening smoky citrine
crystals (dark opening), the bottom yoni just below that holds a botryoidal habit. Both
realistic yonis can be seen on the right side of the stone
above. There are also 2 realistic |
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65. Lower center goes to Heart-Felt Woman
above) |
68. Itchy Nipple: Free-standing Lavender sandstone resembles a nursing teat that has been worn smooth from rubbing around the nipple. 2.0”w; 53 gm |
nipples on the stone; a
distorted one in the left foreground of the above image; and on the
other side a full nipple with the stone's contour forming
the areola shown in the right photo. A very sexy rock. 1.8”h; 56
gmLove stones may have been used as charms to increase the likelihood of fathering more children – an asset in the Stone-Age. Love stones or charms are also used in mild sects of Wicca wherein sexual energy is extended beyond oneself. For example, a suitor might cast a spell by secretly planting an empowered stone on or close to a potential lover.
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This ancient love charm with residual traces of pine pitch adhesive on the rear and one side (right photo) suggest it may have been cemented into a wood carving of a life-size fertility goddess. Or it could have been a personal hand tool. The bubble-like botryoidal habit of the cavity with a glistening clear quartz crystal ring surrounded by blush red jasper looks remarkably like the real thing. Photo doesn't do it justice. (I custom made the base fitted to this piece, the paper tag corner shown is just an info sheet and doesn't help hold it to the base.) There are no sharp edges on this stone. We recovered this beautiful smooth beige chert relic from the old Giles Sailor farm on the Spoon River near Dahinda, IL in April 1999. 4.5"h Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
Yoni Charms may have also been used as stimuli to provoke restrained sexual energies for spiritual pursuits. Such practices are used in Buddhist Tantra and Chinese Taoism even today, although it be based on more specific symbolism and visualizations. Passion is deliberately provoked then the energy is guided to a higher plateau.
Lingham charms may have been used to display male vitality and in some cases a woman may temporarily hold such objects in possession at night while sleeping to persuade the ancestors or gods to help her bear children or to bring her a son. It has been only recently - since the Victorian-Age - that such symbols were frowned upon in many social circles (probably a good thing considering the bulging world population).
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Genitorovis homo The "head" on this sparkling lingham charm looks as if it had been carved or worked, but this is a naturally formed stone originally found by the clan in the river. This expressive lingham even has "war paint" which turns out to be the natural coloration within the stone. Gritstone, a sparkling form of sandstone, was prized by early man to work wood and smooth the ends of atlatl spears. We've found a flat gritstone sanding block with divots attesting to being used to terminate lances (and possibly to keep fingernails filed down). In the sun, these sparkling (Note whites specks.) olive-green gritstone pieces show no signs of such use suggesting it was prized even more highly for its symbolism, 2 parts. 4.3”L; 211 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
Sexual potency also means more lucid dreams to the esoteric initiate. The more potency one has, the longer one can stay with the lucid dream and use it to attain ones specific goals, be it solving a technical problem, conquering a habit or fear, or even attaining enlightenment while "asleep" in the lucid state. This is because in the lucid dream state, one is aware that one is lying on his bed and dreaming, all the while performing feats not possible in the waking state (and anyone can learn to do this). Basically, a sexual charge lengthens ones attention span.
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Homunico lingham grandis
The head stone of this free-standing prehistoric statuette has an uncanny resemblance to a Native American male with a facial expression of dogged determination. Was probably a male vitality idol to help bring many sons. Highly polished from ancient handling. Coffee bean jasper, 2 parts. 3.8” long – no lie; 266 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
Waking life obviously influences dream life. But the flip can also be true wherein lucid dreaming can affect waking life. Consider this: A common dream which often starts in childhood is the dream of flying. Interestingly, the "floating butterfly" effect in the lower abdomen or the naval energy center located three fingers below the belly button ("Tan Tein" in Chinese Taoism; the third or "power" chakra in Hinduism; and the center of gravity for the human body) when one is dream-flying is the same feeling one gets when taking off in an airplane, free-falling, or weightless in space.
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Exiguus nucleus
This lingham charm was found just southwest of site 2601C where the river had washed the site as it was going back down after the 2009 flooding. 1 part. 3.7” h; 319 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
I still use a technique I employed as a teenager: When dreaming and not sure that I can fly, I will jump up in my dream and see if I float down. If I do, I know that I am dreaming and will engage myself in dream flying, visiting all the scenery and vistas that encompasses our collective imaginations and experiences.
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Agkistrodon spp. pupula curalium
There is nothing
more unsettling then stepping on or near a copperhead or
cottonmouth snake. As
a warning to the young, this horizontal figure could also
startle the unawares. Copperhead, along Cottonmouths or "Water
Moccasins" are notoriously aggressive and are often well-hidden
from the weary traveler. Though the copperhead snake is venomous
and its bite very painful, its bite is generally not deadly. The
copperhead snake was originally named for the copper like
coloration on the dorsal side of its head. The copperhead snake
is chestnut colored and has bands that are either dark or brown.
The size of an adult copperhead is 20 to 40 inches and young
copperhead snakes can be recognized by the yellowish or greenish
tip on their tails, and they are more
grayish than
adults.[3] The red jasper "eye" recovered nearby
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eye socket and the
eye
has been worked by the ancient artisan. there is no eye on the
other side. The tail seems to
be missing too
and it may have been 2 or 3 pieces. Note head fits tongue-in-groove
fashion with an "S" form to the first body stone. The second
body stone has multiple arcs to position the viper in various
sinister poses. The original Archaic Halloween prankster prop.
Jasper eye was painstakingly worked by ancient artist. Head and body composed
of drab-tan jasper. 5 parts. 15.0"
L; 1057 gm
Interested parties
email paleoart@frontiernet.netSo lucid dreaming has a deep-reaching effect on ones life and sexual potency positively effects lucid dreaming for men and women. According to the Taoists, sexual potency can be maintained even while active with a sex partner and, along with a host of obvious benefits, may also lead to long life.[4] See Medicine Man.
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To meld with the stinging sweetness of ageless bliss is the primordial pursuit of Life. |
Exotic love (Venus or yoni) stones, lingham charms and prehistoric Venus figurines can be used to trigger an impulse within one in a positive way simply because of its symbolic property. Their symbolism may imply the existential experiences heightened by the simultaneous engagement of all the senses.
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Vipera homo volutum The third stone of the snake is the "head" of the man inside. The snake's stones fit together tongue-in-groove fashion forming this S-shape figurine and the tail is pointed up like some snakes do. The yoni stone was found with the snake stones posing a deep philosophical question. Did the clan believe in rebirth as some esoteric religions of the world do today? All "snake" stones are caramel jasper highlighted with black in-the-stone carbon facial features on the "man". Found with the blush jasper yoni, 7 parts; horizontal orientation. 7.5”L; 229 gm Interested parties email paleoart@frontiernet.net |
My interpretation of figure #69 Man-in-Snake w Yoni above, represents what happens when we are consumed by sexual desire and allow the energies to sink into rebirth.
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Endnotes/Bibliography
[1] Dr. Olga Soffer, http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/212/venus/venus_string.html
[2] http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,350042,00.html
[3] http://www.copperheadsnake.net/
[4] Taoist Secrets of Love, Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Chia,
Mantak. Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1984 also see companion book: Healing
Love Through the Tao, Cultivating Female Sexual Energy, Chia, Mantak &
Maneewan, Healing Tao Books, Huntington, NY, 1986
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