Three-Fingered Fish Goddess- South Slavic Intangible Oral Memory Traditions by Danica Anderson
Lepenski Vir is a Mesolithic site on the banks of the Danube in Serbia, close to the Iron Gates. Dusan Boric and Preston Miracle’s work on the Mesolithic and Neolithic sites of Padina and Hajduka Vodenica, Serbia revealed a long residence of Proto-Slavs from 10,000 BCE in the Danube Gorges.
At Lepenski Vir many Fish Goddesses were found reveling in the aquatic lushness of the Danube river gorges. Perhaps, as a tribute to the huge water reservoir, the Fish Goddesses were important relics for burials and a part of the architectural structures consisting of temples not residences. The impressive fact is age of Lepenski Vir dated to the time of Mesolithic-Neolithic transition 6300-5950 BCE.
It is here that the ‘Three fingered Fish Goddess’ is remembered in modern day Orthodox religion. The Serbian Orthodox sign of the cross performed with three fingers is a South Slavic oral memory tradition that may have originated from Neolithic-Paleolithic.
Read more at
http://magoism.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/essay-three-fingered-fish-goddess-south-slavic-intangible-oral-memory-traditions-by-danica-anderson/
More about Lepenski Vir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepenski_Vir
and the Vinča culture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_culture
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