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Dec 10, 2004
Elusive Female Figures
Archaeologists have uncovered scores of so-called 'female figurines'
in Mycenaean layers, dated from Late Helladic IIIA (1450-1300 BCE) to
Late Helladic IIIC (1180-1050 BCE). One might be tempted to dismiss
these images as crude representations of human beings, but there are
good reasons to suspect that something else may have been behind the
production of these objects. After all, Mycenaean art is not normally
known for its crudeness and the artists would probably have been able
enough to produce more naturalistic objects.

A comparative study of the statues in case, some of which are
portrayed above, uncovers a number of recurrent features. The
figurines all have a cylindrical base. Their torsoes are invariably
decorated with vertical stripes and come in three types. Due to the
resemblance of these types to some letters of the Greek alphabet,
specialists have called these Phi (F), Tau (T), and Psi (Q) types. The
headdresses of some of the women are shaped like bowls or cups, and
often an equilateral cross is placed across the inside of these cups.

The axis mundi is the common designation for the column that connects
the poles of the earth with the celestial poles, around which we see
the stars revolve. One of the most profound symbolic expressions of
this axis in world mythology is the image of a giant human being
upholding heaven with his head or arms. The classic examples of this
motif are the Greek Atlas, the Chinese Pan-Gu, the Vedic Purusha, the
Judaeo-Gnostic Adam Qadmon, and the Egyptian Shu.

The present model identifies the archetypal features of such cosmic
giants with the complex evolutionary sequence of an intense aurora: a
glowing plasma column that must once have been visible in the night
sky above the earth. The Mycenaean figurines appear to fit seamlessly
into this category. The peculiar streamers running across their bodies
are the signature of plasma. The alternation of circular bodies and
outstretched "arms" conforms to the degrees of vorticity experienced
by the hypothetical column, as presented in the analysis of plasma
physicist Anthony Peratt. The most compelling indication that the
figurines were modelled after a plasma column is perhaps the shape of
the headdress. Laboratory experiments conducted by Peratt and his team
indicate that, under intense electrical stress, the plasmoid filaments
at the top of the column warp to such an extent that they eventually
produce the image of a hollow cup. The cross may be related to the
image of the four streamers reported to have emanated from the summit
of the axial column.

Contributed by Marinus Anthony van der Sluijs

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