Editing Apron (section)

===Ancient ceremonial aprons===
Examples of ancient gods wearing aprons can be found worldwide.<ref name="Glbet-el">{{cite web |url=http://www.glbet-el.org/masonictexte/The%20History%20and%20Meaning%20of%20the%20Apron.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=17 December 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510153159/http://www.glbet-el.org/masonictexte/The%20History%20and%20Meaning%20of%20the%20Apron.pdf |archive-date=10 May 2017 }}</ref> Fertility goddess figurines may be the earliest depiction of women wearing aprons. These ancient snake goddess figurines excavated in Crete depicted how Minoan women may have dressed in 1600 BCE: a tight bodice, bare breasts, and an embroidered or woven apron covering a long dress.<ref name="The Aprons.com" /> Monuments and wall paintings in Ancient Egypt depict a triangular-shaped apron with the point upward when the wearer is taking part in some kind of ceremony of initiation. In China, some of the ancient figures of the gods wear semi-circular aprons. In Central America the ancient gods are consistently sculpted wearing aprons. Tepoxtecatl (the preserver) is depicted wearing an apron with a triangular flap. Priests wore similar aprons as a sign of their allegiance to the gods and as a badge of their authority.<ref name="Glbet-el" />