Светлана Жарникова – Ornamental complex of the Nort of Russia (страница 10)

It must be said that one of the oldest traditions recorded in art forms, combining the cult of a female giving birth deity and the cult of the bull, symbolizing the masculine principle, takes us back to the 7th millennium BC, into the Anatolian proto-urban culture of Chatal-Huyuk. “The bull is one of the two main characters in the mythology of the inhabitants of Chatal Huyuk, at least that part of it that found expression in pictorial forms. The second (and perhaps the first) character was "Goddess" - the mother of animals (bulls and, apparently, rams) and people, portrayed as giving birth to them. <...> In some cases, two "goddesses" were depicted, one of whom was younger than the other (italics mine. - S. Zh.)… The image of a younger deity is associated with the idea of the renewal of the life of nature "- writes E. V. Antonova about the images in the temples of Chatal-Huyuk ²¹. But we encounter a similar situation in the Trypollian culture, where the same scheme is repeated: a female deity is depicted, often in the pose of a woman in labor; the masculine principle is embodied in the image of a bull, bull heads or horns²²

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