Venus of Brittany

[Zephonith Serpent Woman]

A long while ago, there were plenty of tribes which lived in France as well as in old Britain.

They shared the same spirituality, customs, mores and way of living, even though they lived on opposite sides of the channel with cold water between them.

The Bretons had the skull and crossed bones as their symbol, and Death was their cultus. See, the Goddess of Death and Love ~ Venus, Isis, Aphrodite, Medusa, Lilith, Inanna, Ereshkigala ~ was universally venerated in those days, when the serpent mound at Carnac was still in the form of a great winding dragon (before the stones were put in straight rows by churchmen who thought that we would never know of their original significance again);

....and statues of the Goddess were commonplace and plentiful. Everybody accepted death as a reality, and the shadow of all living, and they could all then live in love without any fear or fear/based actions and emotions without, or within.

The Goddess has always been God, as the Great Mother's worship extends back past 25 000 years.

As time passed by, the Gnostic and Pagan Christians who also loved the Triple Goddess, were absorbed or alternatively crushed by the Church, and all Pagan imagery and statues, books of learning and traditions were at first officially discouraged, and then just destroyed by physical means. 

~ there was much forcible conversion, as people still had to make money to live in a new world dominated by a church which believed that somehow, the Goddess no longer existed or was of their evil devil.

Material things and pleasure, especially of a sexual nature, were now seen as being evil and somehow, against the principles of the Divine.

So, every single statue of the Old God and Goddess was either smashed, defaced, buried deep or, like the statue above, just chucked into a river.

These pious works were planned and executed under the supervisory auspices of a priest of the Church for which the slightest deviation from doctrine is equivalent to demonic possession.

 "At the request of the Bishop of Vannes, the statue was thrown into the Blavet river twice; first in 1661 and then again in 1670, but recovered both times, first in 1664 and then in 1695 by Pierre de Lannion, the Lord of Blavet Quinipily." - Wikipedia

In 1701, the statue was substantially altered - the crown, for example (as was the custom to conceal significant Goddess symbolism) and was placed in its present position at Quinipily where a garden has been created to showpiece the ancient monument, now protected by law from further defacement and vandalism..

One can guage the relative antiquity of the statue by the patina which has developed over many years.

Hail the Great Goddess of Love and Death!

)O( Blessed Be )O(