The goddess, as the divine creator, was mirrored in each woman’s body she was linked to the changing seasons, the behaviors of the animals that early people hunted, and the various observable cosmological patterns. Worship of the Primordial Goddess flourished during the Upper Paleolithic era, and many scholars believe that during this period, the female body was used to explain the phenomena that prehistoric people observed in nature. Believed by many scholars to have been part of early goddess worship traditions, some have theorized that these images could be linked to early matrilinear or even gynocratic practices in which women, particularly mothers, were responsible for governing the community. Depicting a seed was a way to link the female body with the reproductive capabilities of nature. Many images represent the vulva, often with a seed or an eye. Original depictions of the Primordial Goddess are symbolic and date back to the Paleolithic era (Lower Paleolithic 2,500,000 B.C.E. The goddess was the universal soul, who accepted plant, animal, and human matter in death in order to create new life from the remains. The original conception of the goddess is that of Mother Earth, the sacred female force responsible for the creation of the earth and all its flora and fauna. What we know about prehistoric goddess traditions comes to us from archaeological record and remnants of oral traditions, such as the “Old Woman” of the Aboriginals in Australia.
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