Having a curious mind, I like to read different perspectives
and make up my own conclusions. Most of the time there is no conclusion, just more information, and a wider perspective on the Myths we hold as literal truth.

I just stumbled upon this person's point of view, and also the book link listed for Barbara G Walker I have her book and found this Encyclopedia to be very well researched and opened my eyes to long held "truths" as Myths.

So here's this persons point of view and link.
Enjoy
Ana
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.The Birth of Venus c.
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Opinion ...The Secret of Venus: New Discovery ?
https://www.artknowledgenews.com/204
Opinion by Eric
rainbow_of_rights@yahoo.com


"I have been doing extensive research lately out of personal interest that arose from reading Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code book into the ties between religious symbolism and art. I stumbled onto something accidentally that I think may be a major find, but since I am neither an art historian nor associated with any research community, I don't know how to go about publishing such a finding.

My study was focused on the idea of the lost feminine idea in the God form due to the patriarchal society during the middle ages. My research indicated that early religious tradition viewed God as being a hermaphrodite, half male and half female. . In fact, the primary God, the sun God of the Egyptians, Amon Ra, the very name signifies being both male and female. Om or Amm signifies the Great Mother, so An or On means the Great Father.( The God Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by ELIZA BURT GAMBLE) "The association of the words signifying mother and father indicates that it is to such conjunction we must refer creative power. With such an androgyny element the sun was associated by ancient mythologists. Jupiter was himself sometimes represented as being female; and the word hermaphrodite is in itself a union between Hermes and Aphrodite, the male and female creative powers. We may fairly conclude, from the existence of names like the above, that there was at one time in Western as there was in Eastern Asia a strong feud between the adorers of On and Am, the Lingacitas and the Yonijas, and that they were at length partially united under Ammon, as they were elsewhere under Nebo or the Nabhi of Vishnu."(2) A hint of this idea may be found in Plato's Symposium. “From Plato's Symposium : “The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two.... The primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond.... “ Even the Jewish star of David symbolically shows the concept of a hermaphrodite God. The triangle pointing upward a traditional symbol of the male or the penis, the downward triangle symbol of the female and the vagina. The two triangles together form the Star of David, representative of a union of male and female and of God. As the ideal of the female goddess lost out in an increasingly male dominated world, the female portion of God was slowly eradicated over the centuries and sublimated to being symbolic of the devil.

Anyway, during this research, I naturally came across in the renown portrait The Birth of Venus, a painting by Sandro Botticelli. When I examined the picture closely, I noticed as clear as day that hidden in Venus' hair was a penis. I don't recall any writings anywhere mentioning this. Have I discovered something new or was this already known?

This idea seems to be the same thing that Leonardo Da Vinci was trying to depict with the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa I think is a portrait of the “black Madonna” or Isis who was seen as the female form of the sun God Amon Ra. Venus and Isis are mythologically the same entity.
See his link for the pictures and more from him.
https://www.artknowledgenews.com/204
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Have you ever read anything by Barbara G Walker?



.. and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker
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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
By Barbara G. Walker

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The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets -
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by Barbara G. Walker - 1983 - Religion - 1136 pages
Yonijas A Hindu myth of the battle of the sexes told of a quarrel between the ... However, the Goddess created the Yonijas, spirits of the yoni or vulva, ...
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This site is wonderful, Sacred Texts...ALL Cultures!!
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The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship: III. Unity
22, and the sect of Yonijas, or worshipers of woman, as figured above. There is, indeed, no single Papal church, whether chapel or cathedral, ...
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