Before revision: Origin Gorgon as pedimental sculpture on the Temple of Artemis, Corfu According to Marija Gimbutas, gorgoneia represent certain aspects of the Mother Goddess cult associated with "dynamic life energy" and asserts that the images may be related to a cultural continuity persisting since the Neolithic period defining the gorgoneion as a quintessentially European image.See and .
After revision: Origin Gorgon as pedimental sculpture on the Temple of Artemis, Corfu