Old European Toad Goddess
Anatolia, 6th millenium BC
Birth-giving Goddess
Central Balkans, 6th millenium BC from The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe; Gimbutas, p 176 | Frö, believe it or not, is also cognate with "frog", Sw groda, a word apparently obscurely related to Sw gröda, not a million miles from English "growth". Below: "Grodan" --- The Frog. |
Frogs and Snakes
 Çatal Hüyük
6500 BC |  Gotland
500 AD | 
Ireland
1200 AD |
|  Snake-Wavers
Gotland & Minoa | |
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waist of shame
goddess gallimaufry 
"Nymphet, f, a little Nymph", in An English Dictionary, by E.Coles, printed for Peter Parker, London 1685.
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