Information about godess!?!

In "This is civilization" episode "Ye Gods",i have seen white statue.I heard that it is Godess of earth.
Need info about, where i can find more details about her and link for good photo.


Edited by medenaywe - 01-Jan-2011 at 05:02

The "mother figure" doesn't have to be a human or Anthropomorphic figure either.  The Paleo culture that I am tracking in this part of NJ appears to have adopted the figure of a nesting duck or similar bird.  I have no way of confirming other than using your logic, the bird form goddess is most likely a symbol of abundance as well.

i have to remind you maybe will help  me!

Don Quixote, you got it right. Artemis of Ephesus is the white goddess statue in the Discovery episode.

They show both statues (the darker one full length, the lighter one only the head).

Both statues are from the 1st Century AD, and in Ephesus Museum.

Medenaywe, for other statues of Artemis (reminds me of the Black Madonnas), and some details on the Artimision in Ephesus, see here: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/artemis.html

Edited by Sidney - 12-Feb-2012 at 10:31

Thank you, Sidney, for confirming it, I haven't seen the movie.
This version has lions of her upper arms, 2 lions per side. He hair/hairdess has 2 rams per side, above them something that looks like 2 crowned cows, and then something that looks like a goat.

I have a close picture of the statue in the book "Ephesus" by Selahattin Erdemgil /published 1989, by Net Turistic Yayinlar AS/ /I tried to scan it but I cannot transfer the image here/; anyway, I looked with a magnified glass of the part of the dress just below the neck, and I can make out, left to right, a female figure, then male and female facing each other both holding what looks like  small human figure hanging down.

This angle shows couple of more figures on the left side of the dress - a goat with a fish tail /which is the sign of the Capricorn/, and a male figure with one hand folded in the elbow and pointing up.


I couldn't find info with description, but as far as I can see  on the upper part on her dress there is a figure of a scorpio, a Gemini /Castor and Polux/, a Centaur, a lion, and 2 fishes - this link says that this is the Zodiac http://www.livius.org/ei-er/ephesus/ephesus_artemis.html  but I'm kinda skeptic of it being the Zodiac, it seems to me that the symbols were used with something else in mind. This is the closest picture I could come up with. On this version there are 2 figures of a woman with wings, that looks like Nice, the goddess of victory.


On the upperest part of his dress, next to her neck, there are 4 figures that I see as Greek Godesses, but the picture is not close enough for me too look for details that would allow me to guess their possible identities.

The lower part of the dress /going down/,  has 3 lions, 3 lionesses, 3 goats, 2 some-animal-that -I-cannot-identify, 2 rams and 2 flowers, but this is only the front. I'm looking for pictures on the sides, but so far no luck.

On this picture of a late Roman copy the figures next to her heck look like Hera and Zeus to me

Anyway the cow and the cat were considered emblems of the Mother-Goddess; Artemis was called "Queen of Cats'. In all variations there is a wreath around her neck; in the white statue the wreath looks like made out of  berries; in the yellowish one I can see grapes and flowers. On the last picture on the hair-dress I see something that looks like cows with wings.

This is a version of the statue that fits the above picture - and on the sides of the dress, going down, there are lined a male figure with wings, a bee, a flower, bee, flower, bee; I'm not sure what the winged figures on the hair-dress  of the goddess are, their faces look like animal faces to me.

This version has on it's right side 5 figures that look human, the second from the top down looks like it has wings




Edited by Don Quixote - 12-Feb-2012 at 22:29

Why was this in the "technical support" section? Surely it belongs in ancient history

There is Water God one of Gods&Goddess!I suppose God of Fire is there,cause in text relation among pharaoh and his kids is compared as to Goddess above(from the first line?),Water God Vo and close one to him.We still use comparative:They are like Fire and Water!I believe it is Fire next to Water God!In the beginning it was essential to me i am on right way,now i know that!

Let us go further than!We need a good picture from that here and Origins will see sentence about it! 

This is a modern variation of the statue, but I suppose they copied the figures right