3400 year old Caananite figurine of a woman discovered in Israel.

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It's beautifully preserved, and she's absolutely beautiful. The archaeologists aren't sure if it's meant to represent Ashtarte, the fertility goddess, or a living person. If she was real one can see why the Hebrew scriptures were always telling men to beware of the seductions of Canaanite women. :) She's quite different from the obese Paleolithic "Venus" figurines or even the early Neolithic ones.


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http://www.archaeology.org/news/4212-160225-canaanite-female-figurine

"JERUSALEM—The Israel Antiquities Authority announced that a seven-year-old boy discovered a 3,400-year-old female figurine while hiking at Tel Rehov, located in northeastern Israel, with friends. “Ori returned home with the impressive figurine and the excitement was great. We explained to him this is an ancient artifact and that archaeological finds belong to the state,” his mother said in a press release. Amihai Mazar, director of the excavations at Tel Rehov and professor emeritus at Hebrew University, examined the artifact, which had been made by pressing clay into a mold. “It is typical of the Canaanite culture of the fifteenth to thirteenth centuries B.C. Some researchers think the figure depicted here is that of a real flesh and blood woman, and others view her as the fertility goddess Astarte, known from Canaanite sources and from the Bible,” he said."
 
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200 of these figurines are found in Susa, Elam
they are supposed to be an elegant version of the mother Goddess
the Canaanite figurine is much more elegant though, a sexy female actually
 
She reminds me of this carving, which is definitely of Ashtarte:
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Modern icons, even the curvy ones, are slightly leaner, with longer waists and legs. Not too long ago, though, you still had movie stars with that softer, more "feminine" look.

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Not much changes in our hard wiring, I think.
 

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