Keywords: Spiral Goddess symbol neo-pagan.svg A simple black-and-white version of the Spiral Goddess symbol of modern neo-paganism full-height variant I started with Image PredynasticFemaleFigurine BrooklynMuseum png rotated that photo so that the statuette was vertical did a vector trace of the outline of the statuette averaged the left and right halves of the vector outline to impose bilateral symmetry added a head to the statuette outline further cleaned-up and manipulated the statuette vector outline to improve appearance and added a white Archimedean spiral and a legs divider line cf Image Egypte louvre 314 jpg within the statuette outline August 2008 greatly transformed silhouette of early B C predynastic Egyptian figurine AnonMoos PD Image Spiral_Goddess_symbol_neo-pagan_2 svg shortened <br/> See also File Simplified-stylized Minoan snake goddess symbol svg for a different modern goddess symbol based on an ancient figurine See official site for the statuette at http //www brooklynmuseum org/opencollection/objects/4225/Female_Figure The spiral was generated from the following PostScript vector source code <pre> 333 360 translate/pi 3 1415926535898 def/R 180 pi div def/W 15 def/U 3 26 def/D 180 def/C 54 pi div def/L /Y 0 def 0 W U 360 mul 7 dup repeat D add cos/H exch def D add sin/G exch def H mul R div/Q exch def G mul R div/E exch def Q C mul/x exch def E C mul/y exch def/S G Q add H E sub div def G 0 gt G 0 eq H -1 eq and or /F -1 def /F 1 def ifelse/A exch def A 49 294 lt A 180 gt A 196 274 lt and or /F F neg def if W sub dup dup dup D add cos C mul mul R div/M exch def D add sin C mul mul R div/N exch def W add dup dup dup D add cos C mul mul R div/O exch def D add sin C mul mul R div/V exch def/P x M sub dup mul y N sub dup mul add sqrt pi div def/Z x O sub dup mul y V sub dup mul add sqrt pi div def/B S S mul 1 add sqrt def 0 eq 0 0 moveto/X D cos Z mul def X Y x 1 F mul B div P mul sub y S F mul B div P mul sub x y curveto /X x 1 F mul B div Z mul add def/Y y S F mul B div Z mul add def ifelse for stroke def L/U 2 76 def/D 0 def L showpage EOF</pre> Spiral symbols Goddess movement - Thealogy symbols Images with PostScript source code |