Headless Goddess  she stands naked, bare but unforgotten,  made from hard  white stone.  marble goddess,  head broken off, as if that changed anything important.   cultural genocide, it is called.  rampaging mobs, destroying everything no longer popular.  as if old gods or ideas could be destroyed.   it almost worked, so much forgotten.  we can't destroy  our past.  what happened happened and cannot be changed.  we exist in a certain place and time.  as we return in season we move on in space.   persecuted became the persecutors  and were merciless in stamping out  thoughts and ideas no longer in vogue.  nothing quite  as horrid as a  wild human mob...