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Description A regularized version (re-created from scratch with imposed symmetry) of the design on a ca. 5000 BC "Linear Pottery culture" vase found in Czechoslovakia, as depicted on page 187 of the book Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe by Marija Gimbutas (1982). Gimbutas interprets the central element as a butterfly and/or labrys motif...
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% rotated by 180 degrees with respect to each other).
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current09:39, 16 July 2009Thumbnail for version as of 09:39, 16 July 2009628 × 615 (19 KB)AnonMoos (talk | contribs)A regularized version (re-created from scratch with imposed symmetry) of the design on a ca. 5000 BC "Linear Pottery culture" vase found in Czechoslovakia, as depicted on page 187 of the book ''Gods and Goddesses of Old Europe'' by Marija Gimbutas (1982).

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