In a recently discovered culture dating from the seventh millenium B.C. in Anatolia, as well as in ancient Egypt and Minoan cult art, the vulture was a mother symbol. An important basis for the vulture-mother symbol is the projection of oral sadism onto the breasts. While purely an oral-sadistic mother symbol in neolithic Anatolia, it took on the added meanings of birth, primal scene, and phallic mother in the later Egyptian symbol of the phallic, vulture-headed, mother goddess. This condensation was probably determined by activation of oral sadism during primal scene experiences, the resemblance of the unfeathered head and neck of the vulture to the phallus emerging from the pubic hair, and a connection between scopophilia and the vulture's extraordinarily keen sight.