She's how tall?

Seventeen and a half feet tall.
And they've removed her to a museum.  That's ok, more people can see her that way.

The Venus of Laussel

From Lisa Sauresson: (Blog posted Nov 20, 2014 HERE) where she compares Mary Magdalene with the Venus of Laussel.

Much of what we know about human origins comes to us from southern France, the prehistoric cave paintings and engravings discovered there. Our ancestors' art, such as the Venus of Laussel, shows our original impulse to revere women and the center of women's bodies.

This limestone engraving, discovered in 1911 in the Dordogne, has been a central inspiration for The Woman's Belly Book. Seventeen and one-half feet high, the ochre-stained engraving dates back 25,000 years.

The Venus of Laussel brings forth a full-figured woman. She rests her left hand on her belly, perhaps pointing to her navel. Her head turns over her right shoulder; she's looking at the horn she's holding up in her right hand. Thirteen lines scratch the horn's surface.

Who knows what the sculptors had in mind and heart when they carved out this figure? Who knows what they meant their work to signify?

As I see her, this figure is using her arms and hands to link her belly with the calculation, the calendar, which is the horn she is holding.

The horn's crescent shape reprises a phase of the moon. With a count of thirteen marks on the horn, the engraving as a whole may be noting the year's thirteen lunar months as well as women's annual round of thirteen menstrual cycles.

In effect, this engraving presents the cycles implicit in a woman's body in relation to the cycles marked by celestial bodies.

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And from Wikipedia:

The Venus of Laussel is a Venus figurine, a 17.5 foot high limestone bas-relief of a nude female figure, painted with red ochre. It was carved into a large block of fallen limestone in a rock shelter (abri de Lausselfr:Abri de Cap Blanc) in the commune of Marquay, in the Dordogne department of southwestern France. The carving is associated with the Gravettian Upper Paleolithic culture (approximately 25,000 years old). It is currently displayed in the Musée d'Aquitaine in Bordeaux, France.

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OK, nobody took the stone carving off the wall, in order to get it into a museum, which makes me sigh.

And it's such a great message 25,000 years later.  Women, moon, menstruation (that's her belly that she's got one hand on, and the other, as well as her face pointed at it has the 13 marked moons.

Yep, we can still understand it's message.

Thank you very smart people who knew all about what us human women were like.  And still are.  I absolutely love the photo from Wikipedia, which shows how curved this carving is, since all the others I'd seen are flattened.  That's celebration of that belly of a woman.  What a wonderful part of our anatomy.  Oh dear, I'm editorializing, aren't I?