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Two pre-Colombian myths from stone carvings and pottery designs encountered by the author in the course of extensive travels in Central and South America are
shown to share the same core fantasies as material derived from present-day patients in our own culture. These findings are evidence for the universality of the unconscious. The core fantasies are: 'fluid from the body of a special person brings fertility (to the earth)' and 'a snake gives birth'.