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In der griechischen Literatur findet sich das Wort ""ßa?????p??"" zur Zustandsbeschreibung einer Frau. Das Adjektiv zielt auf die Metamorphose des Mädchens vom geschlechtsreifen Kind zur verheirateten Frau, bis hin zur Mutterschaft. ""Ba?????p??"" tritt auffälligerweise immer dann in Erscheinung, wenn sich der Kontext auf Erschaffen und Hervorbringen bezieht. Kleinkunstwerke von schwangeren und gebärenden Frauen wurden schon in der Eiszeit ab 33.000 - 18.000 v. Chr. gestaltet. Aus der Zeit ab ca. 6.000 v. Chr. wurden im Vorderen Orient und in Kleinasien weitere dickleibige, schwangere Frauen i

Pregnancy in literature --- Pregnancy in art --- Greek literature --- Balkan literature --- Byzantine literature --- Classical literature --- Classical philology --- Greek philology --- History.

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Recently, scholars of Olmec visual culture have identified symbols for umbilical cords, bundles, and cave-wombs, as well as a significant number of women portrayed on monuments and as figurines. In this groundbreaking study, Carolyn Tate demonstrates that these subjects were part of a major emphasis on gestational imagery in Formative Period Mesoamerica. In Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture, she identifies the presence of women, human embryos, and fetuses in monuments and portable objects dating from 1400 to 400 BC and originating throughout much of Mesoamerica. This highly original study sheds new light on the prominent roles that women and gestational beings played in Early Formative societies, revealing female shamanic practices, the generative concepts that motivated caching and bundling, and the expression of feminine knowledge in the 260-day cycle and related divinatory and ritual activities. Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture is the first study that situates the unique hollow babies of Formative Mesoamerica within the context of prominent females and the prevalent imagery of gestation and birth. It is also the first major art historical study of La Venta and the first to identify Mesoamerica's earliest creation narrative. It provides a more nuanced understanding of how later societies, including Teotihuacan and West Mexico, as well as the Maya, either rejected certain Formative Period visual forms, rituals, social roles, and concepts or adopted and transformed them into the enduring themes of Mesoamerican symbol systems.

Fetus in art. --- Indian women in art. --- Olmec art --- Olmec mythology. --- Olmec sculpture. --- Pregnancy in art. --- Themes, motives. --- La Venta Site (Mexico)