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Acknowledgements
Please be courteous and respectful about copyright. Listed onwards are all the website addresses for the images that I've included on my site. Please note that the images do not belong to me. The images, copyright, and permission to reproduce belongs to the originating artists and/or gallery/organization/company/owner. {Ditto for all that I've written here.} Please acknowledge ownership properly. Thanks.
Also, when you're accessing some of these links, you may find that they don't work. I've tried to be as accurate as possible BUT sometimes the URLs change or the ISP servers are down. If you find a big problem, please let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks a second time.
Ashley WITCHCRAFTER
Fairy Godmother: Was Celtic Faery - now a lost link - sorry.
Thoth: http://www.clipartcastle.com Fair warning - this site has more pop-ups than you'll know what to do with - sorry.
What is Witchcraft?
Hallowe'en Witch: http://www.clipartcastle.com
Venus of Willendorf, possibly as old as 40000 BCE, though usually considered to be dated from 25000 BCE, original in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/d/engvorschau.html
Sleeping Lady of Malta [modern replica shown], circa 3000 BCE, originally from the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, now in the National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta: http://www.maltavoyager.com/moa/
Inanna - Ishtar - Astarte [modern replica shown], original circa 2000 BCE, Musée de Louvre, Paris, France: http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm
Mesopotamian pentagrams
Top-pottery, circa 3100-2900 BCE, Jemdet Nasr period [pre-Sumerian culture], originally from the Ashmolean Plain [modern-day Iraq], now in the Oxford Museum, Oxford, England: http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
Middle-pottery, circa 2600 BCE, originally from the city of Ur, Sumer [modern day Iraq], now in the British Museum, London, England: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Bottom-pottery, circa 900 BCE, originally from the city/temple of Marduk, Babylonian [modern day Iraq], now in the British Museum, London, England: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Demeter, terra cotta, original in the Terme di Diocleziano {Baths of Diocletion}, Museo Nazionale Romanonelle, Rome, Italy: http://www.abcroma.com/Inglese/museonaz_i.htm
Venus of Laussel [modern replica shown], original circa 22000 BCE, in Histoire Archéologique des Eyzies, Dordogne, France: http://www.arachnis.asso.fr/DORDOGNE/REVUE/prehi/muserev0.htm
Venus of Lespague [modern replica shown], circa 25000 BCE, original in Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France: http://www.mnhn.fr/
Minoan Snake Goddess [modern replica shown], circa 1600 BCE, originally from the Palace at Knossos, Crete, now in the Iraklion Museum, Crete: http://www.dilos.com/region/crete/ir_mus.html
Homage to Diana, 1597-1602 CE, Annibale Carracci, Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy: By snail mail: Photo Office of the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici di Roma, Piazza San Marco n.49, 00186, Roma, Italy
Spirituality & Wicca
Hecate [modern replica shown], original in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Nathor [modern replica shown & modern name], original votive figures and carvings found in tombs in Libya and Egypt from circa 4000 BCE, originals in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt.: http://www.emuseum.gov.eg
Mycenaean Goddess or Priestess, circa 1300 BCE from the Greek Bronze Age, originally found in Greece, now in the British Museum, London, England: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Isis: http://www.clipartcastle.com
Green Man, Black Prince's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, England: http://www.canterburygreenman.fsnet.co.uk The quote in the caption is by the author, Nigel Rushbrook, of this website. His website has numerous Green Man images from all over churches and cathedrals in Devon, Kent, and Canterbury in England.
Sheela Na Gig [modern replica shown], original circa 850 CE, Church of St Mary and St David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England: http://www.sheelanagig.org/sheelakilpeck.htm
Akua'ba figurine, early 20th century CE, Asante culture, originally from Ghana, Africa, now in the British Museum, London, England: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Halaf Goddess or Priestess, circa 5300-4800 BCE, Halaf culture, originally from Chagar Bazar, north-east Syria, now in the British Museum, London, England: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Mirrors
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