Earth Mother

In this drawing I combine two neolithical images of the Mother Goddess.

My Earthmother has got her voluptuous forms from the Venus of Willendorf, with her honourable age of thirty thousand years probably the most known icon of prehistory.

Earthmother and fertility goddess?
Her ample bosom and pronounced pubis seem to indicate so.
But because of the statue being only some ten centimeters high, in some archeologists' opinion it could also be an amulet carried by the men on their hunting trips. An esoteric statue to bring them succes in their hunting; an (erotic?) statue to remind them of their women back home.

For the second component of my Earth Goddess we have to go to the "Golfe du Morbihan" in Brittany.
The cairn on the isle of Gavrinis is without doubt one of the most beautiful neolithic monuments.
The inner sides of the 6000 year old passage grave are covered with engraved hatchets, serpents en espacially series of concentric half circles, that, in certain combinations, are supposed to form an abstract representation of the Mother Goddess.
The decorations on the belly of my Earthmother are based on these ornaments.

And from her feet grows the Tree of Life.
It's not a flowerpot, but it will do.