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According to aboriginal legends, the time-before-time when the spirits formed the world, was called Dreamtime. These spirits taught people many things such as how to use fire and how to draw. The levitating female spirit celebrates the monthly cycle of the moon. Limited edition of 10 prints.
Quetzalcoatl was the Mesoamerican feathered serpent, a flying dragon. He was the god of the west, the morning star, the god of wind, renewal, culture, learning, mercy and civilization. He was the inventor of books and the calendar and mapped the many cycles of creation.
Noah was a hero tasked by God to save creation from a calamitous flood. In earliest writings, it was the raven that found the re-emerging land. In the Sumerian story of Gilgamesh, he advises the king of Ur, to abandon his search for immortality.
Many west African Akan tribes believe a diviner created a fertility doll for Akua who was having trouble conceiving a child. She was then successful in having a heathy baby (‘ba’). The shape of the Akua’ba is based on the Ankh; an Egyptian symbol for “life”.
Mother Earth provided animals to hunt and herd, fruit to gather, and children to support the family. The moon’s phases represented her influence on birth, prosperity, death and resurrection each month.
Odin is the Norse father of the gods known for wisdom, healing and sorcery. He is shown with his swift horse with 8 legs and ravens who kept Odin informed of what was happening in the world. Wednesday is named for Woden (old-Saxon for Odin).
During 17th century, European doctors treating sufferers of the pandemics wore masks that contained vinegar and herb soaked sponges to cleanse the infected air.
Elysium was the after-death paradise for those favored by the gods. Poets such as Homer, Virgil, Dante and Shakespeare wrote of it as a happy place of perpetual spring, music, and shady parks untouched by sorrow.
Daphne, a wood nymph and the daughter of the river god, was about to be unwillingly captured by Apollo, Daphne begged her father to save her. He turned her into a laurel tree.
Pythia, the High Priestess of the temple of Apollo in Delphi, was the most powerful woman of the classical world. Her advice was said to be influenced by the spirit of the god and by the hallucinogenic vapors rising from under the cauldron in which she sat.
Beatrice was Italian author Dante’s muse, his love, his perfection. After her death at age 25, he wrote of her as one of his guides on his journey through hell and heaven. In real life, Dante met Beatrice only twice; once when they were children and later when she was a young woman.
In Inuit mythology, Sedna was once a mistreated girl who was transformed into the mother goddess of the Arctic seas. She has strict rules that protect her creatures. She is worshiped by hunters who follow her taboos because they depend on her goodwill.
According to Inuit legend, Sedna fled from her husband's family. He was a shape-shifting raven who enslaved her. She drowned but did not die. Instead she became a goddess of the sea.
In California’s pre-colonial period, a total eclipse of the sun occurred causing the Chumash to dramatically interpreted and paint the event in a hillside cave.
Shiva is the recycler and rejuvenator of all existence. Parvati is the mother goddess: the goddess of fertility, love and the recreative energy and power of Shiva. Their cosmic dance symbolizes the cosmic cycles of creation and destruction, as well as the rhythms of life and death.
The Buddha taught moderation between the extremes of indulgence and self-mortification. The cycle of rebirth offers opportunities for improvement through positive experiences (positive karma) and for liberating insight and enlightenment.
Parvati, the mother goddess, created Ganesh to protect her. Shiva mistakenly cut off his head and had to replace it with that of an elephant. Ganesh has become one of the most loved of the Hindu gods as the “fixer” for the complexities of life.
Pinocchio is a character in a book by Cado Collodi of Pescia, Italy. In the story, Pinocchio was a naughty, pine-wood marionette who gains wisdom through a series of misadventures which lead him to magically becoming a real human as a reward for his good deeds.
Hero of Greek and Roman mythology, he was the paragon of strength and masculinity. In front of the Hercules fountain in Ronda, Spain, a young man is chatting up a pretty girl while her little brother sneaks up on a girl that has caught his eye.
Cats have protected mankind since the beginnings of agriculture. Egyptians, Hindus, Chinese, Celts and Scandinavians portray cats as goddesses or divine helpers to goddesses of sailors, women and children. Reformation Germans reacted, worrying that cats were companions to witches.
Stylized figures from the Cyclades islands of a sea faring culture at the time of the earliest civilizations celebrated people rather than deities or royalty.
The Evil Eye is a talisman against malalignment of the stars, dangers of nature, unlucky happenstance, or even curses and targeted ill will.
Adam was the wild man in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh who was created of clay and water by the goddess of creation to live with the animals of nature. The priestess of the goddess was later sent to civilize him.
Daphne, a wood nymph and the daughter of the river god, was about to be unwillingly captured by Apollo, Daphne begged her father to save her. He turned her into a laurel tree. No means NO. <br>Limited edition of 10 prints.

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