Thread by @serbiaireland

Thread: I want to thank Gabriella Brusa-Zappellini, Great Italian Archaeologist, for posting excerpts from this book. The most prominent place on the cover was of course given to the virile "Goat of rain" standing between two zig zag lines symbolizing flowing water...

This goat was of course interpreted by archaeologists as "decorative design'...But in fact it is a calendar marker. Mating of the Ibex goats announces the beginning of winter and the beginning of the rain season.

I talked about this in my post about Tepe Hissar pottery. oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-vess…

This symbol directly links Ibex goat fertility and nature fertility in general. Ibex goat semen and rain, heavenly semen...

Here we see plants growing out of Ibex's horns...Why? Goat of rain...

I love this guy with a flower under it's horns...

Is this a field under the horns of the Goat of rain? These kind of things are usually interpreted as fields...Field which depends on rain that the magic goat brings every Oct/Nov

And then there is this guy...

I love this "Abstract design" . This is Ibex coming out of the flowing water, river, which the rain it brings fills...The cross under the goat's horns is, I think, a stylized flower...

This is another cool design

While some group designs are quite realistic

Some are quite stylized

Eventually the stylizing results in images which are more and more abstract and more and more difficult to decipher. A herd of ejaculating ibex goats...

And finally these two designs. Four ibex goats...