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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/109970| Title: | The ‘rainy sun’ – the significance of a natural phenomenon to the first Maltese |
| Authors: | Veen, Veronica |
| Keywords: | Neolithic period -- Malta -- Gozo Taċ-Ċawla (Victoria, Malta) Gozo (Malta) -- Antiquities Goddesses, Prehistoric -- Malta -- Gozo Sculpture, Prehistoric -- Malta -- Gozo Temple period -- Malta |
| Issue Date: | 2023 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. Gozo Centre |
| Citation: | Veen, V. (2023). The ‘rainy sun’ – the significance of a natural phenomenon to the first Maltese. The Gozo Observer, 46, 12-14. |
| Abstract: | As a symbolic anthropologist I have been studying the symbolism of Malta’s prehistoric cultures for the past thirty five years. Much of this symbolism has been laid down in the many signs, motifs and motif complexes applied on the surface of earthenware. Though this is still generally underestimated as ‘just decoration’, these ceramics are actually loaded with symbolism. The ‘rainy sun’, which I experienced only recently in nature itself, is a motif complex typical of the Għar Dalam culture, the first phase in Maltese prehistory, 5,800-4,500BC, with Gozo as the island of their first arrival and main activity. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/109970 |
| ISSN: | 19963114 |
| Appears in Collections: | The Gozo Observer - Issue 46, 2023 The Gozo Observer - Issue 46, 2023 |
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