This ebook discusses erotic and magical goddesses and heroines in numerous old cultures, from the close to East and Asia, and all through old Europe; in prehistoric and early ancient iconography, their magical characteristics are usually indicated via a paranormal dance or stance. it's a examine woman exhibit figures either cross-culturally and cross-temporally, via texts and iconography, starting with figures depicted in very early Neolithic Anatolia, early and heart Neolithic southeast Europe--Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia--continuing throughout the overdue Neolithic in East Asia, and into early ancient Greece, India, and eire, and in different places the world over. those very comparable girl figures have been depicted in Anatolia, Europe, Southern Asia, and East Asia, in a wide chronological sweep, starting with the pre-pottery Neolithic, ca. 9000 BCE, and present from the start of the second one millennium of this period as much as the current period. This publication demonstrates the intense similarities, in a huge geographic variety, of depictions and outlines of magical lady figures who provide fertility and energy to the peoples in their cultures through their magical erotic powers. This booklet uniquely includes translations of texts which describe those old woman figures, from a mess of Indo-European, close to jap, and East Asian works, a feat in basic terms attainable given the authors' ambitious mixed linguistic services in over thirty languages. The ebook includes many images of those geographically assorted, yet functionally and artistically related, lady figures. Many present books (academic and in a different way) discover the various woman figures the authors talk about of their ebook, yet the sort of wide-ranging cross-cultural and cross-temporal view of this style of woman figures hasn't ever been undertaken beforehand. The "sexual" reveal of those girl figures displays the large numinosity of the prehistoric divine female, and of her magical genitalia. The capabilities of fertility and apotropaia, which count number one of the features of the early ancient exhibit and dancing figures, develop out of this numinosity and replicate the idea in and honoring of the powers of the traditional divine feminine.