"To sleep within the Goddess's womb was to die and to come to life anew (Marija Gimbutas)" "Still, there is the problem of the unexplained origins of Malta's remarkable temple-building culture and the sequence which requires us to believe that Gigantija, and the oldest parts of Mnajdra, were that culture's first-ever experiments in free-standing monumental architecture. And there is the problem of the model temples, some fashioned from terracotta, some from stone, excavated from within the temples themselves and now usefully on display in the National Museum in Valletta. While some of these beautiful little models faithfully depict temples of exactly the type that have survived to this day, a few others show an entirely different, highly geometric style of megalithic architecture, where the theme is all straight lines and recurrent right-angles. Why don't we find the ruins of the original structures that these other, rectilinear models supposedly represent?" (Hancock 2) I think that the rectilinear shape is the form of the male, the curvilinear shape the form of woman, like the straight lines in henua and the bent lines in the sickle of the moon. Gimbutas is right. Already in very, very ancient times all over the world pictures of a very fat 'Venus' show us the same curvilinear shapes as those found in the old temples of Malta:
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