{The Cave Bear and Venus}[30th September 1990]

[Redbook7:345][19900930:2135]{The Cave Bear and Venus}[30th September 1990]

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Given that evidence of cave bear ceremonies on the one hand, and small female (‘Venus’) statuettes on the other, both appear for the first time in the Upper*** Paleolithic period, it is possible to relate these to the Sky pattern**** inherited by the Greeks – with Ursa Major on the ‘male’ side and Andromeda with her myth on the ‘female’ side – and speculate that these may have represented the ‘male’ and ‘female’ right-left division of religious awareness.

*[[Redbook7:342][19900928:1822]{Prehistoric Circles (2)}[28th September 1990],] 342 →

→ VIII. [[Redbook8:90][19901107]{The History of Art: The Paleolithic Period}[7th November 1990,] 90

**E[ncyclopaedia B[ritannica] 26:65,66

& see ibid[:]67 (Col 1, ult para)

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**** But: ‘Bulls … seem to have been# relegated to the masculine sphere.’ Ibid[:]67

(I have detailed and discussed the Greek sky map elsewhere – possibly not in these journals, but in an earlier and (self-)rejected C[ircles] A[nalysis] and S[ynthsesis] booklet draft.)

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