Figure 39. The symbol of spiritual liberation of man in designations of the ancient peoples:
1) petroglyphs of the ancient people:
а) rock carvings discovered in Camonica Valley (circa 4th millennium BC), Val Camonica, foothills of the central Alps, Northern Italy);
b) rock carvings found on the coast of the White Sea (circa the 3rd millennium BC); Republic of Karelia, North-Western Russia), many of the local petroglyphs are visible only at sunrise and at sunset (the time of the morning and the evening spiritual practices);
c) petroglyphs found in the valley of El Abra (the 12th millennium BCE); Columbia, South America);
d) petroglyphs found in the north-western part of Brazil (the 10th-7th millennium BC); South America);
2) symbols of the ancient archaeological culture Çatal Höyük (Çatal Hüyük) (the 7th millennium BC; Anatolia, Asia Minor):
a) image of a “Goddess” with a marking of the energy centre – the Soul;
b) sign from the graphical symbols of this culture;
c) image of a “frog Goddess” (a symbol of revival), under which a bull’s head with wide-set horns is placed (the end of the 7th millennium BC; artefact of a temple of the Çatal Höyük culture);
3) an ancient sign of the Indian culture;
4) a schematic representation of the Mother Goddess of the ancient Slavs as well as of the Tripolye culture (the 4th-3rd millennium BC; Ukraine);
5) Russian embroidery “Image of a woman in childbirth”;
6) fragment of an ancient Greek vase (Boeotian amphora, circa 680 BC) showing Artemis as Pontius Theron (Mistress of beasts); the reverse swastikas and the attacking dogs represent an aggressive world, while Artemis herself is represented as a spiritual manifestation in this world; the image of fish on the clothes of Artemis is a symbol of immersion in an altered state of consciousness; the six bars on the clothes symbolise six dimensions, the head of Artemis is slightly touching the body - this is a symbol of the seventh dimension; the birds indicate the spiritual, higher world; the two snakes on the sides of the image symbolise the achievement of the state of the highest spiritual enlightenment, liberation;
7) a golden plaque depicting a Scythian Goddess (the 4th century BC; tumulus Large Bliznitsa, Taman peninsula, Krasnodar region, Russia, the “Hermitage” museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia);
8) sacred colour sand painting of the Indian Navajo People (North America);
9) image of a Scythian goddess under a silver dish handle (the 4th century BC; tumulus Chertomlyk, Dnepropetrovsk oblast, Ukraine);
10) a carved plaque with an image of a Goddess (the 7th-8th century; an archaeological finding near Lake Chud, Perm Region, Russia; Cherdynsky local history museum named after Pushkin);
11) a figurine of the Aztec Goddess of water, Chalchiuhtlicue (300-400 years AD; North America, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico); Chalchiuhtlicue (“she is dressed in jade”; “she is in a blue dress”) was depicted as a young woman; she guided the righteous through the heavenly bridge (the rainbow).
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