What the Stone did not forget
About this episode
The episode explores the significance of the Venus of Willendorf and the sacred feminine across prehistoric cultures.
What the Stone Did Not Forget The lineage of the sacred feminine from Neolithic Europe all the way to the Stardust Lineage. There is an image of a woman small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. She is less than four and a half inches tall, carved from Neolithic limestone over 28,000 years ago near the Danube River in what is now called Austria. She is all curved. A sacred feminine body with a round belly, full breasts, wide hips, a body in its fullness and generative power, honored in the most permanent material available. She has no face. She does not need one. She is not a portrait of an individual woman. She is every woman. And she is a statement about what the female body means, what it carries, what it represents, and the cosmology of the people who made her. She is, of course, the Venus of Willendorf. She was once tinted with red ochre, the same iron-rich pigment as human blood, and women’s blood. Even in the act of carving, there was an awareness of the connection between body, earth, and cosmos. The stone itself was not incidental. The stone holds what time cannot otherwise keep. The stone holds the story and remembers. Across a vast arc of prehistoric Europe and…
People in this episode
Host: Shiloh Sophia
Topics covered
- sacred feminine
- Neolithic art
- female body
- archaeology
- cosmology
- prehistoric Europe
Keywords
- sacred feminine
- Venus of Willendorf
- Neolithic
- female body
- archaeology
- cosmology
- prehistoric art
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Venus of Willendorf
Places: Danube River, Austria, France, Siberia
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