Checkout the two amazing carvings from Ice Age Europe of the goddess Venus made of Ice Age wooly mammoth tusks, Venus of Bassempouy and Venus of Lespugue of southwestern France, certainly strong indication that the Ice Age ended much later than popularly advertised. That goddess to the Atlanteans there was Tanit (Athena), later named Venus by the Romans, from the word venerari for veneration or having magical charm.