The first potter was the sumerian-babylonian godness Aruru the great, the almighty gentle mother Goddess of the earth and birth, who created humanity from clay. She molded mankind out of clay using a god as pattern and breathed life into him with her divine exhalation.
She created the first man out of clay (adamah = the female soil). She confected seven mother-vessels for women and seven for men. « The shapes of humanity are formed by Aruru » as say the Assyrians.
The biblic story of god creating Adam out of clay is just a plagiat of ancient texts with a masculinisation of the Godess. The mesopotamian idea that flesh equals clay originates from the matriarchy of earliest times when all pottery was women's work. The god of the bible couldn't bear – so he copied the second-best method of creation by moulding his first man out of clay like the Godess had done bevor him.
- Source: http://aruru.eu/site/index.php/en/aruru
Bakery house with oven or pottery house with kiln? On ancient connection between bakery and pottery, both been traditionally women's work by the fire.
Fornax’s themes are home and love. Her symbols are stoves, fire and wheat. In Rome, Fornax guided the baking of bread, which, being the proverbial staff of life, was no small matter. Today Fornax still stands ready to watch over our hearths, as the Goddess of the oven, which is the true heart of any home. If her fires go out, folklore says, warmth among the home’s occupants dwindles soon thereafter.
Fornacalia was the Roman festival of ovens, in which Fornax was invoked by baking wheat breads and other grain-related foods. The name Fornax is connected with the modern English word “furnace” as well as the modern Italian word forno, which you’ll often see on bakeries*. Fornax was both the name of the oven, kiln or furnace and the name of the personification of these pieces of equipment that were, and are, so fundamentally important for baking bread, cooking, heating, metal working and pottery.
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