Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia
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Figure 22. Women execute anasyrma toward warriors; Netherlands, late sixteenth century. After Helmut Birkhan, Kelten/Celts, fig. 513.

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Figure 23. Black stone frog. Thessaly, Greece, Achilleion culture, ca. 6300 BCE. After Gimbutas 1989, figure 388, with permission from the literary estate of Marija Gimbutas.

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Figure 24. Frog-female figures; Hacilar culture; Ankara, Anatolian Civilizations Museum.

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Figure 25. Statue of eqet, the Egyptian Frog Goddess. Egypt, Predynastic Period, Late Naqada III Period (3100–2950 BCE) to Early Dynastic Period, Early Dynasty 1 (2950–2573 BCE) ca. 3050–2900 BCE. Cleveland Museum of Art. 1976.5.

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Figure 26. Cosmic form of the Goddess Kl. Folio (Recto) from a book of iconography. Nepal. Himalayas. Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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