{"id":7562,"date":"2019-03-30T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T04:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2019-04-17T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:46:14","slug":"deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/03\/deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Deity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DeYoung Museum in San Francisco has a number of Cycladic figures made thousands of years ago in what is now Greece. I was attracted to one of these figures, labeled as <a href=\"https:\/\/art.famsf.org\/cycladic-figure-2006136\">&#8220;Cycladic Figure, Early Cycladic II, Spedos variety,&#8221;<\/a> dating to perhaps 2500 BCE, so I made a quick sketch of it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogMar3019-612x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogMar3019.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/BlogMar3019-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a typical Cycladic figure of a woman with her arms crossed; it is made of white marble, though originally it would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/TOAH\/hd\/ecyc\/hd_ecyc.htm\">&#8220;painted with mineral-based pigments\u2014azurite for blue and iron ores, or cinnabar for red.&#8221;<\/a> There are those who assert that this type of figure represents a deity, perhaps the Great Goddess who  may have been the chief deity of the ancient Greek world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But of course there&#8217;s really no way to know what this figure represents. Is it a deity, or just a human figure? Or maybe something in between? Perhaps we would tend to call it a deity because the shape is so satisfying to look at; when we like looking at a piece of art it is tempting to think of that art as representing something beyond the mundane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DeYoung Museum in San Francisco has a number of Cycladic figures made thousands of years ago in what is now Greece. I was attracted to one of these figures, labeled as &#8220;Cycladic Figure, Early Cycladic II, Spedos variety,&#8221; dating to perhaps 2500 BCE, so I made a quick sketch of it: This is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2019\/03\/deity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Deity?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[147,509],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-people-places","tag-ancient-greek-religion","tag-deities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7565,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}