Despite this fundamental difference it is possible to find traces of the play-factor in the plastic arts. In archaic culture the work of art had its place and function very largely in ritual, as an object of sacred significance. Buildings, statues garments, weapons beautifully ornamented could all belong to the religious world. Such objects had magic power, they were charged with symbolical value as very often they represented a mystic identity……. That a semantic link between ritual, art, and play may possibly be hidden in the Greek word ‘agalma’. Agalma is derived from a verbal root with a complex of meanings, central to which is the idea of exultation and jubilation, comparable to the German ‘frohlocken’, often used in a religious sense.