There’s a higher resolution image here, which does look like there’s splodges of paint still there: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Crvenokosa_boginja%2C_neolit%2C_Donja_Branjevina.tif/lossy-page1-1567px-Crvenokosa_boginja%2C_neolit%2C_Donja_Branjevina.tif.jpg

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Some results I found on the Web (“Neolithic Starčevo sculpture”) do bring a statue featuring red hair (some examples attached below).

However, I’m not sure whether those results are original photos or modified versions.

Personally, for religious reasons (I quickly jumped to this thread as soon as my eyes were caught by the phrasing “Red-haired goddess” bc I literally worship said Goddess), I wouldn’t doubt that the Neolithic inspiration was indeed a red-haired figure.

Symbols especially those from a collective unconsciousness (Jungian archetypes) and/or Akashic records, often (if not always) have a “why”: why the “demonic” and the “supernatural” are always depicted as having a pair of goat horns and/or having uncanny faces and deeply scary eyes (either with glowing irises or even iris-less eyes)? Why supernatural beings are often depicted as having wings while also able to teleport whenever they wish (so the wings aren’t exactly “functional” in utilitarian sense, or aren’t they?)? Why we humans have this “flee” urge whenever we’re faced by “uncanny valley” faces (why we humans have an “uncanny valley” perception, to begin with) while all the other species promptly engage (either embracing/mating or fighting) with a simulacra possessing an ominous likeness of their own? It turns out that those archetypes and symbols are ingrained both in our collective memory, born somewhere in the past, as well as recurring manifestations of unknown cosmic forces (deities, daemons, entities, spiritual familiars, spirits) who are unimaginably powerful.

Back to the Goddess, this physical trait, having natural and vivid red-hair (so this doesn’t include artificially painted hair), is somewhat rare, especially when we account for genetics (red-hairedness among us humans). Hence part of why figures such as Lilith are often perceived as having a red hair (the other part of why’s that, is because She often does manifest Herself spiritually with this specific appearance, with other characteristics varying depending on the culture, e.g. a black-skinned manifestation of Lilith with a vivid red hair, or a Chinese/Asian Lilith with a vivid red hair; as far as I researched about other’s recounted appearances of Lilith back when She called upon me, She’s often, if not always, powerfully, red haired).

Red symbolizes two paradoxically opposing sentiments: passion/love (heart, as well as the intrauterine environment i.e. what a fetus would effectively see while they’re inside the womb) and wrath/danger (blood, fire). Lilith Herself (as well as figures such as Kali, Persephone, Sophia, Inanna and Ereshkigal, all of whom I believe to be, alongside Lilith, manifestations of The Dark Mother Goddess) symbolizes both sentiments as “Dark Mother” i.e. both nurturing and lethal, Mother who gives birth to their offspring and who can also consume them.

Hence the red hair, at least archetypally.

Some things are just in our DNA.

The ass should look like they sat in gravel. Otherwise you’re not goddess level. Srry