Fertility - Bereket

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Hands on hips and ram's horn motifs used together denote a man and a woman. The fertility pattern is composed of two 'elibelinde' motifs indicating the female and two 'kocboynuzu' motifs indicating the male. The eye motif in the middle of composition is used to protect the family against evil eye. Variations of fertility motifs of Anatolian origins are presented below.

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