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But most important, many sculptures bear the combined features of woman, fish, and bird of prey.
Some sculptures look like a fish-faced deity with human breasts and vulva, but with bird feet, most likely representing the talons of a bird of prey (Fig. 22, above).
Thus, first the body of the deceased individual would be exposed outside so that nature and birds of prey could deflesh the corpse; then the bones would be buried.3
As in other European communal burials, the inhabitants first exposed the body to birds of prey and then deposited the bones into the megalithic tomb.
Symbols of northern European birds of prey- the owl, crow, eagle, and raven- attest to the presence of the goddess of death and regeneration in megalithic tombs.
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