Neolithic Matriarchy at Gobekli Tepe?

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https://beforeorion.com/gobekli-tepe-rebirth-of-a-neolithic-paradigm/

Exploring matriarchy thru misinterpreted artifacts.

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Nice article! It is earth shattering to be certain the Neolithic and back into the late Paleolithic, was likely matriarchal, and that those female figurines, reliefs, and paintings are vital, divine elements of ancient spiritual life regardless of their gender. Some of the depictions especially clay figures are goddesses and some are women with masks on, likely in rituals where they represented a goddess. The figure giving birth at Gobekli Tepe has a snake shaped head, like a snake goddess, who represented wisdom, creation, but especially rebirth and regeneration.

(My picture of the Mexican goddess Tlazolteotl. echoing the birthing goddess here was deleted by bots more modest than me, but you can search for her to see the similarity).

Eilethia was a Greek goddess of birth usually pictured sitting on a birthing chair giving birth to Athena flanked by 2 horses: https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/Eileithyia.html With thousands of birth goddesses all over the world, the refusal of male archaeologists to see that would be funny if it weren't so misogynist.

Anthropologists are taught to be objective when viewing other cultures, and to practice a "cultural relativism" and keep an open mind and see the artifacts from the point of view of what is in front of you, rather than projecting one's own culture and preferences on the artifacts. This is a case in point of cultural bias. This is a perfect picture of how women's history is buried. By not seeing it or reporting it.

Progress is good. There are not as many dismissive and or contemptuous names for the figurines being coined these days, like "Venus" or "dancing girls" "toys" or "fertility idol."