Keywords: Vulva symbols.svg in the book Blood Brothers of Gor using the geometry of the Vesica Piscis configuration i e the overlap between two circles of equal diameter where the center of each circle is on the circumference of the other For one variation of this a pointed oval within a circle see Image Dina-gor svg or Image Triple-Goddess-Waxing-Full-Waning-Symbol-multicolored svg 4 Center Oval within oval another variation of the preceding 5 Lower center Quasi-original form of an Egyptian hieroglyph used in the spellings of the ancient Egyptian words for woman and vulva according to James P Allen's Middle Egyptian An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs where it is assigned the number D280a and described as an abstract representation of the pelvis and vulva In ancient Egyptian inscriptions this sign is generally merged with or replaced by hieroglyphs N41 <hiero>N41 </hiero> and/or N42 <hiero>N42 </hiero> of similar visual appearance drawings of water in a well 6 Lower right Czech and Slovak píča symbol The ancient Mesopotamian rhomb or lozenge of Ishtar was similar but with concentric diamonds sometimes with slightly rounded corners instead of a line inside a diamond See Gods Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia An Illustrated Dictionary by Jeremy Black and Anthony Green 1992 ISBN 0-292-70794-0 p 153 Source Own work symbol shapes created by myself from scratch except that the lower right is taken from Image Symbol píča svg Symbol píča svg 2007 AnonMoos For some further prehistoric depictions see image 060214_cave_vulva_02 jpg linked from http //www livescience com/history/060214_cave_art html Les féminaires outre les cercles les anneaux donnent pour symboles des vulves les triangles coupés d'une bissectrice les ovales les ellipses On peut styliser les ovales ou les ellipses sous forme de losanges ou bien sous forme de croissants de lune c'est-à-dire des ovales partagés en deux -- Les Guérillères Monique Wittig ISBN 2-7073-0042-X See also Image Heart-symbol-vulva-shape-hypothesis-illustration svg File Vulva-handsign-Yoni-mudra svg File RWS07 The-Chariot yoni-lingam Symbol svg Vulva symbols Well hieroglyph ~symbols Symbol charts Proto or Pictographic-cuneiform on clay tablets SVG files on human female genitalia |