" It is possible that the sculpture originally formed the handle of a mirror.[2] The yakshi is evidence of commercial trade between India and Rome in the first century CE. However, the iconography, in particular the exposed genitals, reveals that the figure is more likely to depict a yakshi, a female tree spirit that represents fertility, or possibly a syncretic version of Venus-Sri-Lakshmi from an ancient exchange between Classical Greco-Roman and Indian cultures.[1] The figure is now in the Secret Museum in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.[5] Contents The statuette was discovered in October 1938 beside the Casa dei Quattro stili at Pompeii."
Archaeologists excavating the Neolithic urban settlement of Çatalhöyük in central Turkey have unearthed the figurine of a voluptuous woman in excellent condition. More than 2,000 figurines have been found at Çatalhöyük, but very few of them intact like this one. Several of them were also Mother figures; this is the first one to be found intact and with finely crafted details. It is also unusual in that it was discovered under a platform next to a piece of obsidian where it appears to have been deliberately placed likely for ritual purposes rather than discarded in garbage pits where archaeologists have found many broken statuettes, mostly made of clay. The beautiful Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük, for example, who is herself a zaftig female archetype seated on a throne and captured in the very act of giving birth, was found missing her head and the right hand rest in the shape of a leopard or panther head.
Cybele, an Anatolian mother goddess, is the symbol of prosperity with her pregnant belly, seated on her throne.
In Anatolian mythology she was the personification of the earth. In Greek mythology in which she was equated to Earth-goddess Gaia, Cybele was mostly associated with fertile nature, mountains, town and city walls, as well as wild animals such as lions.
It is a matter of astronomical fact that the cycle of time establishes
twelve zodiacal ages in the Great Year. There are numerous references to
the Great Year throughout the Bible. The twelve foundation stones of
the holy city are the twelve Aeons, Christ as Alpha and Omega is the
turning point of time between two Great Years, the end of the Aeon or
Age discussed by Christ is the end of the Age of Pisces, and the various
fish and lamb symbols indicate the natural temporal shift of the sun
from the Age of Aries (the lamb) to the Age of Pisces (the fish) at the
time of Christ. Murdock comments that rather than being a real person,
Jesus Christ symbolizes the mythical avatar of the Piscean Age (p457).
Such
ideas were viewed by the church as heresy. The Gnostics were condemned
for seeking to explain in natural terms how eternal truth could be
manifest in human life. Their cosmic framework of twelve ages, with
Christ symbolizing the turning point of time, provided a purely
empirical explanation for Jesus as a symbol of the connection between
humanity and eternity. Precession explains how our planet is evolving
against what Ezekiel called the `wheels within wheels' of the cosmos and
what Plato, in the Timaeus, called the relation between the same (the
cosmos) and the different (the solar system) (p227). This Gnostic
heresy of the twelve ages provides an accurate scientific basis to
understand the real nature of Christ.