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Fertility Goddess, 1st century AD

Pakistan, Gandhara, reportedly Charsada, early Kushan Period (1st century-320)

Terracotta, Overall: h. 26.70 cm (10 ½ inches)

Female figures fashioned from terracotta were found at large man-made pools of water in early Buddhist sacred compounds. They indicate the importance of art and rites associated with fertility and childbirth among the Buddhist laity, of which women were a major component. The wreath, small breasts, and gentle modeling of her full-hipped body associate this figure with Greco-Roman imagery.

"There grew out the self-delivered crop of giants:/// rose on the ground half-finished and lifted a soil-grown shield; another shook a nodding plume before him and showed not yet his chest; while still creeping up slowly from his mother's flanks he showed fight against fearless Cadmos, clad in armour he was born in. O what a great miracle! Eileithyia armed him whom the mother had not yet spawned! And there was one who cast his brother-spear, fumbling and half-visible; one who lightly drew the whole body into the light, but left his toes unfinished sticking in the ground."

what I think is wild about this is the descriptions of the Spartoi, cuz imagine this version where they integrated into Thebes as giants, like Thebes now has a couple of dragon-tooth sewn giant guardians.

cadmus is now the dad of 5 giant dragon dudes

“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied” - Edna St. Vincent Millay

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