The Serpent and the Sacred Fire Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art
- List Price: $16.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/2000
Three-time rock art author Dennis Slifer takes a wide and deep look at symbols of fertility and fecundity, meticulously documenting drawings made by prehistoric cultures and the historical tribes of today's greater Southwest. The book replicates scenes of human fertility and sexuality including copulation scenes, female figures giving birth, puberty rituals, and sacred marriage ceremonies. Other common rock art symbols include pregnant animals, phallic fluteplayers, serpents, and crook-necked staffs. Human reproduction, fertility and abundance, and spiritual renewal were aspects of life involving humans in a complex interweave.
Slifer compares the southwestern symbols with those fertility symbols found in rock art sites around the world, and demonstrates the universal significance of fertility to early cultures, and the archetype sense of the connectedness of the living world.
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