I wish you'd give me an example of a 'venus' figure found in a burial. Of course it is quite probable that not all figures were made for the same reason - they are after all pretty widely dispersed and very a great deal in appearance.

We can never know how early men and women saw themselves and each other but I think we must guard against the all to common assumption that *everything* they made or did had a 'ritual' or 'religious' purpose.