C R Sant

The Two Queens and the Megalithic Temples C R Sant

In the early 1990's, a statuette was unearthed during archaeological excavations at an ancient pre-historical site in the Maltese Islands. It was a small but very enigmatic statuette, more that 6000 years old, representing two obese women and a small child. The symbolic nature of the statuette clearly indicated that it had a meaning. But most of all it was uncannily similar to another statuette of Cretan origins that was familiar to the author. The other, an ivory statuette, some 4000 years old, was found in Greece in 1943. When the two statuettes were compared both depicted two women, like twins, both with a small child. Both expressed great intimacy and the same inferred meaning that was unmistakable. The book is primarily the search for the identity of what the statuettes represented and the meaning behind it. The statuettes provide proof to an archaic culture that, for millennia, was common to the civilisations around the Mediterranean and deep in Europe and the Near East. The book also provides insight into the origins of many of the later myths and legends that also relate to the statuettes, from the classical world and elsewhere. Also insight into related old customs and folklore that are still practised today.