One Single Impression: Scarecrow

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Scarecrow

love goddess Athtart*

wobbly bones and tattered look

direct descendant

fertility its forté

friend of tomatoes on vine

 

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This week's prompt, scarecrow, was suggested by Joanne of 4Joy 

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*Athtart: "Consort and reztrainer of Baal, Athtart was a benevolent goddess of sexuality, passion, creativity, and fertility, and chief goddess of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos." About.com; Ancient / Classical History
Per Paul Harvey, "Rest of the Story," early farmers placed statuettes of the various gods and goddesses in their fields to insure a better crop yield. It seemed that the goddesses of love and fertility were the ones that produced the results. Thinking that this worked, and not knowing that the seed and produce eating birds were scared away, they were the only ones left in the fields. From them the practice of scarecrows evolved. No reference, I heard this on the radio a few years back.