Post #303898 by Tipua on Thu, May 3, 2007 7:45 PM

On 2007-05-03 02:40, Tamapoutini wrote:

(added some breasts)...

That's cool!

I have actually carved a hei-tiki/venus of Willendorf (this is what yours reminds me of).

I bought a Venus of Willendorf soapstone pendant ages ago. I carved a tiki-like face with staring eyes and protruding tongue with a chip of quartz. My theme was that as earth is the mother, the life giver, she also shall consume you in the end (the venus of Willendorf has been interpreted as representing the earth goddess). I've since lost her somewhere, but yours is much better anyway.

For those who don't know what the Venus of Willendorf is, she is a paleolithic carving of a rather fat (not pregnant apparently) woman (with huge breasts, but no face) made of Oolitic limestone and carved approximately in 24,000-22,000 BCE, found at a site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems.

Nobody quite knows why she was carved, but of course there are many theories. One of those being that she was perhaps the first "sex object"! :)