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About the book >.>.> This present work grows out of the vast body of symbols preserved in the actual artifacts themselves. My primary presupposition is that they can best be understood on their own planes of reference grouped according to their inner coherence. They constitute a complex system in which every unit is interlocked with every other in what appear to be specific categories. No symbol can be treated in isolation; understanding the parts leads to under standing the whole which in turn leads to identifying more of the parts. This book explicitly seeks to identify the Old European patterns that cross the boundaries of time and space. These systematic associations in the Near East southeastern Europe the Mediterranean area and in central western and northern Europe indicate the extension of the same Goddess religion to all of these regions as a cohesive and persistent ideological system. I do not beliese as many archeologists of this generation seem to that we shall never know the meaning of prehistoric art and religion. Yes the scarcity of sources makes reconstruction difficult in most instances but the religion of the early agricultural period of Europe and Anatolia is very richly docu meated. Tombs temples frescoes reliefs sculptures figurines pictorial painting and other sources need to be analyzed from the point of view of ideology For thus reason it is necessary to widen the scope of descriptive archeology into interdisciplinary research. For this work I lean heavily on comparative mythology early historical sources and linguistics as well as on folklore and historical ethnography (MP)