Several cosmogonical myths come from the clay, from the Aboriginal legends of the origin of man to the Greek myth of the birth of painting, drawing, and sculpture through the first potter named Butades of Sicyon. Butades, an old craftsman, used the clay from the silhouette of her daughter’s lover’s shadow in one of her encounters. The potter, thus more affirmed, presented (made ‘present’) the absence to the daughter, thus corresponding to her exasperated request of immortalizing the lover who left for the war. It is said that this statue ended up in the Sanctuary of Delphi.