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AllatRa by Anastasia Novykh
in different corners of the planet, that testify to people’s special attitude towards this
sign that looks like a "bug" and towards the images of goddesses similar to it. However,
strange things are happening in science today: the spiritual aspect of these artefacts is
hardly ever considered and most explanations amount to the material understanding, as
if on purpose, the spiritual significance and the role of these symbols in the cultures of
various nations is belittled. For example, scientists are often faced with ancient artefacts
in the form of goddesses with lines twisted into spirals or separated by a semicircle in
place of legs (or snakes twisted in spirals). But they attribute almost all these findings to
a “labouring woman in the frog pose" or to "anthropomorphic creatures in the frog pose
that are associated with the magic of fertility and represent the woman pose..." and so
on. In general, they connect it to the material aspects of existence leaving out the
spiritual component.
Rigden: Well, what kind of worldview people have, so are their conclusions. Had
people nowadays paid more attention to the true spiritual self-development, they would
better understand the concern of the ancient people for their spiritual development. Here
is a simple example. In the 1960s in the southern part of the Central Turkey on Konya
Plain, archaeologists discovered the city of Çatal Höyük (Catal Hüyük) dated to the 7th
millennium BCE. And underneath it, there were 12 more levels, so to say, the building
horizons of cultures that had existed before that time.
Anastasia: Yes, it was a sensational discovery for the scientific world: ancient buildings
(the outside narrow entrance to the room was placed on the flat roof), sanctuaries,
plaques, figurines, microliths of geometric forms, and remains of many-coloured wall
paintings. According to estimated calculations made by scientists, this ancient city could
accommodate about 7,000 inhabitants at the same time.
Rigden: Quite right. So almost every house there had a special room. Scientists
conventionally called it the "sanctuary", and, putting in on our words, it was a room for
spiritual practices. They tried to place it in the centre of the house. The walls of this
room (especially the eastern and the northern ones) were painted with frescoes, the
length of which reached from 12 to 18 metres. But the most interesting point is what was
painted there: a "Goddess" in the form of a woman positioned in the pose of the said
"bug" (or as scientists call it, "in the frog pose"), with animals and birds that characterise
the four Aspects beside her as well as symbols in the form of the Allat sign (a crescent
with horns pointing upwards), a rhombus, two vertically connected triangles (in the form
of an "hourglass"), two horizontally connected triangles (in the form of a "butterfly
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