Sexuality, the Sheela na gigs, and the Goddess in Ancient Ireland.

The ancient Indo-European Irish culture deeply manifested its hybrid social origins; that is, in Ireland, the migrating Indo-Europeans assimilated into indigenous tribes which were both matrilineal and patrilineal. Because they could inherit in these societies, Irish women were economically viable. In both human social structure and divine pantheons, the ancient Irish exhibited a legacy of powerful female figures. Some of them may be reflected in the Irish Sheela na gigs, although neither oral traditions nor texts accompany the Sheela na gig figures to tell us who or what they are