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. spirit maidens .
About this
work...
These
'spirit
maidens' were inspired mostly by female Kachinas, but there are spirit
maidens in almost all cultures. I also wanted to show that a 'Spirit
Maiden' or having spiritual knowledge and power is not age dependent.
It is said one can be born with an old soul. If this is true, one can
also
be born with a new soul, a soul that approaches all with new eyes.
Whether new or old, one does not just happen upon their spirit one day,
it is ever present.
For this work, I
photographed vintage and authentic Native American
dolls. The main photograph was altered mostly through color changes and
using prototypical Native American female Kachina masks/faces.
My Photography Based Digital Art current work
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Eos Ceres
eos
the goddess of the dawn lives by the streams at the eastern end of the
earth, known as aurora (roman), ishtar (assyrian), and the hindu
daughter of heaven
"easter" (eostre) was also goddess of spring with all its fertility
symbols (bunnies & eggs) and fertility rites
eos, eostre, ostara, are related to the sanskrit and vedic usra or
ushas, ushastara (zendic) , ausra (lithuanian), and austron (teutonic)
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ceres
the goddess of agriculture, of the harvest, in ancient
mythology
symbolizing the cultivated, fertile soil that fed humanity - when pluto
kidnapped ceres' daughter persephone, all the abundance of nature to
dry up, when persephone was returned, ceres rejoiced, seeds sprouted,
flowers bloomed, and crops once again filled the field.
ceres is the largest of the four major asteroids
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