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Toad Spawn Symbolism Suggested for Sechin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Wolfgang Wickler  and
Uta Seibt
Wolfgang Wickler
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut für Verhaitensphysiologie, D-8131 Seewiesen, West Germany
Uta Seibt
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institut für Verhaitensphysiologie, D-8131 Seewiesen, West Germany
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Abstract

Stone engravings from Sechin, hitherto interpreted as human eyes, are reinterpreted as anuran eggs. The reasons for this interpretation and the possible symbolic meaning of such eggs are given.

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American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 441 - 444
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1982

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