sLITHeR iS brOugHT to yOU bY thE lEttEr~W..
for Wormz~Leanin on things that
shouldnt be leaned on evEryWhErE~
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Peak #709
Peak in subgenre #45
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Chris Langelier Productions(c)2009Established
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June 27, 2009
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Story behind the song
The statuettes were either male or female (although predominantly female), with slim, well-
proportioned naked bodies, wide shoulders, and strange reptilian heads that scholars generally
refer to as lizard-like in appearance.
They bear long, tapered faces like snouts, with wide, eye-slits - usually elliptical pellets of clay
pinched to form what are known as coffee-bean eyes - and a thick, dark plume of bitumen on
their heads to represent a coil of erect hair (similar coils fashioned in clay appear on some of
the heads found at Jarmo). All statuettes display either female pubic hair or male genitalia.
Each Ubaid figurine has it own unique pose. By far the strangest and most compelling shows a
naked female holding a baby to her left breast. The infants left hand clings on to the breast,
and there can be little doubt that it is suckling milk. It is a very touching image, although it
bears one chilling feature - the child has long slanted eyes and the head of a reptile. This is
highly significant, for it suggests that the baby was seen as having been born with these
features. In other words, the lizard-like heads of the figurines are not masks, or symbolic
animalistic forms, but abstract images of an actual race believed by the Ubaid people to have
possessed such reptilian qualities.
In the past these lizard-like figurines have been identified by scholars as representations of
the Mother Goddess - a totally erroneous assumption since some of them are obviously male -
while ancient astronaut theorists such as Erich von Daniken have seen fit to identity them as
images of alien entities. In my opinion, both explanations attempt to bracket the clay figurines
into popular frameworks that are insufficient to explain their full symbolism. Furthermore, since
most of the examples found were retrieved from graves, where they were often the only item of
any importance, Sir Leonard Woolley concluded that they represented chthonic deities - that
is, underworld denizens connected in some way with the rites of the dead.
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