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Sometimes we wonder what is under that veil from the back side of her head = as in if Dea Gravida is not wearing an “elongated” hat under the veil when she was alive = when the Queen of queens was alive. Why do we think that? Well, because there is this strange lady’s hat worn in the Middle Ages in Lebanon which is conic in shape and has a veil attached to its upper end = it’s called Tantoor. We only managed to trace back till the Middle Ages = it was worn by local princesses from that time. But we couldn’t verify if it dates back from the Phoenician times. Since the “elongated” male Phoenician hat was worn from around 8000 B.C. till first part of XXth century = around 10 000 years, then this makes it possible for this conic female hat to have come to us straight from the Phoenicia fashion as well, but it’s not proven. Apart the lady of Elche wearing an elongated hat, we don’t have much.
We also cannot help ourselves but wonder if the design of the female cone shaped hat worn by the princess of Europe during the Middle Ages = as in worn by the female members of the Bloodlines families ruling over Europe during the Middle Ages – was not a design “stolen” by the Bloodlines from the female Phoenician/Carthaginian nobility. Crazy, right? Well, I didn’t get time to dig into this tunnel, but I have this little feeling I will find the Medieval princess conic hat goes back to the Phoenician female nobility wearing it. Why did the Bloodlines adopt this hat design for their princesses? Well, I think the chances are HIGH this goes back to Atlantis and the Phoenicians just happened to keep alive the tradition of having noble females wear pointy hats. When the Bloodlines found out about it after deciphering the “stolen” Phoenician archives via the Jesuits, they started to make (((their))) females wear the conic hat in order to point to (((their))) Atlantean origin. This is just a theory from my part for now since I didn’t find time to looking into all of this; comparing with others as well.
In some of Dea Gravida’s statuettes we can clearly see her feel, while in others it’s blurry. It’s one of the details varying from one statuette to another.
Another notable aspect in the description of Dea Gravida statuettes are the breasts of the goddess. In most cultures, usually, the artists creating the artifact outlines the gender of the statues he is working on. So if it’s a female statue like what it’s the case here, he marks the breasts to point this is a female = so we don’t confuse the gender of the person in the statue. With male statue, they are represented either bare chest or they show his genitals to point he is a male.
In our case here, the breasts of Dea Gravida are there to indicate we have a female deity. But it’s not a sexualized female deity since she is not holding her breasts but she is actually putting her hands on her pregnant belly to get the attention of the viewer on it. This is a huge difference with the statuette of the Evil Lady on page 1 688; we should include the clothing in this as well as in one is nude while the other is fully clothed.
I personally didn’t have the chance to a see a Dea Gravida from Tripoli so I cannot confirm if she is truly holding a “cake” or not.
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