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Amazon Archer 5"

Amazon Archer 5"

 Legend says these warrior maidens ruled over a large part of Asia Minor. They worshipped Mare Goddess Demeter and wolf-running Artemis, may have been the first culture to tame horses, and were much feared by the post-patriarchal Greeks. Most Amazon images were destroyed to instill the subordination of women. Reclaim her!

[Etruscan, British Museum, c. 480 BCE]

Cold cast bronze.  

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Stag Deer God 7.5" pewter

Stag Deer God 7.5" pewter

 Like Bull Gods, the Stag God has symbolized fertility and abundance since Neolithic times. This famous image comes from Anatolian goddess culture (the Alaca Hoyuk site, in central Turkey, dating to c. 5500 BCE) and is called the "Stag of Seven Tines." Since antler tines are fast-growing, they are a metaphor for plant fertility as well. This is one of the first sacred images that was cast in iron.

Pewter with marble base.  

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Standing Male Worshipper 7 1/4"

Standing Male Worshipper 7 1/4"

 This Sumerian figure was placed before the devotional image of a Mesopotamian deity. His supplicating pose, with clasped hands and wide-eyed gaze, is meant to serve as a constant reminder of the requests made by the person who placed him there. Serving the same purpose as a votive candle, he kept the prayers active in the mind of Deity.

This standing worshiper, was found in the "Square Temple" at Tell Asmar, perhaps dedicated to the god Enlil, considered the most powerful Mesopotamian god during most of the third millennium B.C.E. Similar statues were often inscribed with the names of rulers and their families in order to pray perpetually on behalf of the person it represented.

[Eshnunna, Sumer, 2750 B.C.E. central Mesopotamia]

Antique stone color resin. 

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