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Creature
Emerging Egg-Like
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| This motif is one of the most
important and frequently appearing of several components of Primal Imagery
that, in 2003, this author
quickly identified in the Figure Stones. |
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| A face (right photo) emerging
egg-like from a bird's posterior in a possible theme of
regeneration. Note also the straight incision
marks, which
are common but of unknown significance. Laboratory tests
performed on other stones like this (cross-sections and thin
sections for microscopic examination) indicate that these marks are
artificial. |
| Below: Apparently the
same motif, complete with mouth and eye, in a mammoth ivory bird
carving from Hohle Fels, Germany, ca. 30,000 years
BP. (Length 47 mm, 1.85") |
| The egg-like emergence of a
secondary figure is a theme appearing in ancient "portable
rock art" in many parts of the world. Above is
a beautiful example in flint, in which the head of a small bird
exits beneath the tail of the primary figure - from the
collection of Ursel
Benekendorff in northern Germany. |
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A megalith in
the same theme, near Bollendorf, Germany. Photo
from Frank Pries. |
| A flint "Venus"
from Ursel Benekendorff's German
collection, rather unusual in that instead of emerging from the
belly, the creature exits from the posterior like an egg. |
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| A quite exceptionally detailed
and naturalistic example of the theme, here a quasi-human head
emerging from the posterior of a bird, found by Alan
Skelly near Ohio's Great Serpent Mound. In turn, the head seems
to incorporate the very common motif of another creature
emerging from its mouth. |
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