More sacred baths from Portugal

a double portal reconstructed from iron age sauna stones

Tongobriga, Portugal. Here an old sauna portal
was added to another structure.

Fuente de la Foncalada, Oviedo, Spain.
In medieval times sauna stones were rebuilt into this structure.

Altar Stone with Celtic-looking female personage,
Augas Santas, Allariz.

"Forno da Santa,"the (female) saint's oven", at Augas Santas.
(This looks like it should be Aguas Santas, but
appears to be Galician for Holy Waters.)

vulva-shaped gray stone with reddish split

"Mother Stone,"
northern Portugal

 

 

statue of naked woman wearing torc and nothing else, with hand to vulva

Goddess from Oppidum (citadel) of Briteiros, Portugal, wearing torc and with hand to vulva in sheila-na-gig manner

nude statue of rough stone, woman with hands to center and marked vulva

Another rough statue highlighting
the vulva. Sendim, Portugal.

The two statues at left are about 2000 years old, from Celtic oppida (fortified settlements) in northern Portugal.

 
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