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Spiral Goddess (item #SS/ASG): This delicate Spiral Goddess was designed by sculptor Abby Willowroot. Spiral-force is Goddess energy. From deepest Prehistory onwards, the spiral was associated with horns and snakes, and symbolized dynamism, fertility and the vital magic of life. Profusions of spirals decorate ancient temples in Ireland, Malta and Mycenea, as well as countless pictographic monuments throughout the world. Here the Goddess raises her arms, invoking the spiral-power within Her. On the reverse, her arms are joined in the "drawing down the moon" gesture. A leafless tree represents the Goddess rooted in the Earth, swelling toward regeneration while bathed in the glow of waxing, full, and waning moons. White antique stone colored Gypsumstone, 8" tall. Price: $32 US | Spiral Goddess  |
Sheela Na Gig  | Sheela Na Gig (item #SS/SHE): This Celtic archetype appeared in folk and church art by at least 1080 CE, but is undoubtedly of much earlier origin. Displaying her yoni, it was believed that she warded off evil. Kilpeck Church, Herfordshire England 1140 CE. 5" red bronze color gypsumstone. Price: $26 US |
Millennial Goddess (item #TG/MLG): Oberon Zell's greatest masterwork, the Millennial Gaia is the Goddess image for the new Millennium! This "Sermon in Stone" is Oberon's expression of a growing global Earth-based consciousness. 7" tall polyresin cast. Price: $75 US | Millennial Goddess  |
Dreaming Priestess of Malta  Dreaming Priestess of Malta (item #AT/DPM): The most spectacular monument in Malta is the enormous, labyrinthine underground sanctuary known as the Hypogeum which may have been the ceremonial center of the island encompassing more than 6,000 square meters in three levels. This catacomb-like structure seems to have been at once temple, tomb and healing center. The main hall leads into the oracle room where two identical small sculptures of a woman were found lying on the floor where they were probably left when the shrine was abandoned. The dreamer is lying on her side on a low couch, one enormous right forearm underneath her head, the other draped across her heavy breast. She is ample-hipped and topless. Dressed in a full length, bell-shaped skirt she clearly appears to be asleep, almost visibly dreaming. The figures were probably part of a ceremony of dream incubation. National Archaeological Museum, Valetta, Malta. 3000 BC Prices: $53 |
Venus of Laussal (item #AT/D84): The original is 17 inches tall and was found in the entrance to a cave that was both a dwelling place and a ceremonial site. She was painted red, the color of life, blood and rebirth. Paleolithic sculptors chiselled her out of limestone with tools of flint, and gave her to hold in her right hand a bison's horn, crescent-shaped like the moon,which is notched with thirteen marks representing the thirteen days of the waxing moon and the thirteen months of the lunar year. With her left hand she points to her swelling womb. Her head is tilted towards the crescent moon, drawing a curve of relationship from her fingers on the womb up through the incline of her head to the crescent horn in her hand, so creating a connection between the waxing phase of the moon and the fecundity of the human womb. Dordogne, France. 20,000 BC Price: $53 US | Venus of Laussal  |
Modern Madonna  | Modern Madonna (item #SSMIA): This graceful mother Goddess figure gently cradles the Earth. Every curve of her pose reveals her loving concern for all life. She is the perfect addition to any altar for peace, healing, or motherly love. [Copyright Kennon Williams, 1996] 5 1/2" resin statue. Blue green finish. Prices: $40 |
Peace Goddess (item #SS/WG): A classical form goddess cradles the green man / earth in her arms. She is weeping in sorrow for war, suffering, famine, disease, religious intolerance, and harm to the environment. She tenderly embraces the earth with love for all of creation. The sorrow is great, but where there is love there is hope. May the Goddess guide us toward peace. 9" resin statue, rose wash finish. Price: $36 US | Peace Goddess  |
Black Madonna of Anjo  | Black Madonna of Anjo (item #SS/BMA): The resplendent Madonna from Anjony, France, is richly formal. Many Black Madonnas were not Christian images at all, but were venerated thousands of years prior to contact with the Christian faith. Unable to stamp out popular devotion to the mysterious Ladies, the Church renamed them "Madonna" simply to save face. [before 930 CE] Prices: $38 |
Native American Triple Goddess (item #SS/NAT): Maiden, Mother, Wise Elder. We have referred to tribal oral tradition in naming these powerful goddesses, which are adapted from an image by artist Chris Palamino. At the top is the self-sacrificing maiden Aliquipiso of the Oneida tribe; then Irriaku, the Corn Mother who connects the Pueblo people with the Earth; at the base, in her tobacco-leaf crown, is Grandmother Spider, Wisdom Goddess of the Cherokee. Smudge stick rituals can be used to to invoke their wisdom and balance. Red/bronze colored resin. Price: $52 US | Native American Triple Goddess  |
Oya  | Oya (item #SS/OY): Oya is the Warrior Goddess of the Wind who also mothered nine children! She creates change of fortune and power in action. Her power is associated with lightening, tornadoes, cemeteries and death. Her motherly strength inspires us to embrace change and learn from it. [contemporary image, Ghana] Black/gold resin statue. Prices: $37 |
Stonehenge  Stonehenge (item #AT-S): Reconstruction of ancient stone circle in England. 9" diameter. Prices: $54 |
Minoan Snake Priestess (item #AT/D82): This figure dates from 1500 BCE at the Palace of Knossos on Crete. She carries snakes, symbols of death and rebirth. Crouching on her crown is a cat. In her crown are poppy pods. 12"H (30cm) Antique stone finish with color detail. Price: $53 US | Minoan Snake Priestess  |
Nile River Goddess  | Nile River Goddess (item #AT/D85): The image of the bird Goddess appeared in Egypt in early predynastic times (4000 BCE) as funerary figures with strongly beaked faces and wing-like arms and hands. These painted terracotta figures, less than a foot high and much alike, were found in graves in Mohamerian, near Edfu. They serve as a superb blend of bird, woman and deity. Their greatly enlarged posteriors are a representation of the cosmic or primal egg. In Egyptian myth, the generation of the primal egg takes place in what is known as the "time of non-being" where the sublime goose appears among the imperishable stars. While the world is still flooded by silence, the voice of the great cackler breaks the stillness, and she lays the egg containing the germ of life. From her egg burst forth a bird of celestial light. The cosmic matter from which the universe is formed comes from the primal egg. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. 4000 BC 11" H (28cm). Casting stone, antique finish on marble base. Prices: $53 |
Venus of Willendorf (item #AT/D80): The Venus of Willendorf represents the Earth and its fertility and continuation of life, the Mother Goddess, the universal female principle. Casting antique finish stone on marble base 8"H (20cm). Natural History Museum, Vienna. 30,000 BC Price: $49 US | Venus of Willendorf  |
Ishtar/Inanna  | Ishtar/Inanna (item #AT/D86): She was addressed as Mother of the Fruitful Breast, Queen of Heaven, Light of the World, Creator of People, Mother of Deities and River of Life. The breast-offering pose suggested her function as the Goddess of all nourishment and fertility. Ishtar, also known as Inanna in Sumeria, is, above all, a lunar Goddess who gives life as the waxing moon and then withdraws it as the waning moon. The light and dark dimensions to her power, her dying and resurrected son-lover Tammuz, who annually descends to the underworld and rises again from it all suggest a lunar mythology which revolves around the connection made between the light and dark lunar phases and rhythmic alteration of the Earth's fertility. 11.5"H (29cm). Casting antique finish stone on marble base. Louvre Museum, Paris. 2000 BC Prices: $64 |
Bastet (item #AT/E333): Bastet was the goddess of plenty and the mistress of pleasure. The celebrating of her festivals were renowned for being the most lavish of all the gods of Egypt. Bastet was also associated with the moon and in myth became the eye of the moon. The Greeks associated her with the Greek goddess Artemis. She is usually depicted as a cat-headed woman. In one hand she holds a sistrum, a kind of musical rattle, and in her other hand she holds an aegis which is a symbolic shield of protection in the form of a golden collar decorated with a cat head. 8.5"H (22 cm). Bonded marble with gold finish and painted detail. British Museum, London Late Period, 664-332 BC Price: $22 US | Bastet  |
Isis  | Isis (item #AT/E317): The name Isis means "seat" or "throne." According to Egyptian scripture, "In the beginning there was Isis, Oldest of the Old. She was the Goddess from whom all becoming arose." Her worship spread to the Greco-Roman world and many aspects of her life were incorporated later into the story of Mary, mother of Jesus. Isis was regarded as the symbolical mother of the King. Here she carries the ankh and the papyrus scepter of Goddesses; the horns and sun disk of Hathor. She wears a feather dress and a headdress composed of a vulture, symbolizing her powers of regeneration. 9.25"H (24 cm). Bonded marble with gold finish and painted detail. Prices: $20 |
Hecate - Greek Triple Goddess (item #AT/G89): In Greece, Hecate was one of the many names for the original feminine trinity ruling Heaven, Earth and the Underworld. Greeks tended to emphasize her crone or underworld aspect. Hecate was called "Most lovely one", a title of the moon. She was associated with the moon in all three of her aspects. Some said she was Hecate Selene, the Moon in Heaven; Artemis the Huntress on Earth and Persephone the Destroyer in the Underworld. Sometimes she was part of the Queen of Heaven Trinity: Hebe the Virgin, Hera the Mother and Hecate the Crone. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 10.5"H (27cm). Casting stone, antique finish. Price: $58 US | Hecate - Greek Triple Goddess  |
Ariadne  | Ariadne (item #SS/ADE): "The High Fruitful One," brings Rebirth. This lunar fertility goddess was known for her athletic prowess. Serpents, symbols of rebirth, were ritually handled by her priestesses, whose bare-breasted costumes suggest the sacred role of sexuality in the Minoan culture. [Candia Museum, Crete, 1600-1500 BCE] Antique stone colored Gypsumstone. Prices: $38 |
Ceres  | Ceres (item #SS/CER): Ceres, with Grain and Serpents, asks, "How does your garden grow?" Both your backyard and spiritual gardens will bloom, encouraged by her fertile gaze. When veneration of the ancient Grain Goddess Demeter was imported to Italy by the Romans, they renamed her Ceres. In this statue, Ceres holds the cereal stalks that took her name, as well as writhing serpents who guarantee your prosperity and success. [National Museum, Terme, Italy] Terra Cotta, Resin. Prices: $39 |
Aphrodite (item #TG/APHRO): This Greek Goddess of love and beauty casts Her flirtatious glance in our direction, bringing Her blessings into our lives. A modern interpretation inspired by living women as models, sculpted by Oberon Zell. 9" tall ivory finish on polyresin cast. Price: $60 US | Aphrodite  |
Diana  | Diana (item #TG/DIANA): "Lovely Goddess of the Bow, of all tender wild creatures." Diana was the Roman name for the Greek Goddess Artemis, Moon Maiden, divine huntress and protector of the wilderness. This modern image by Oberon Zell was inspired by the "Pastorale" scene from Fantasia. 8-1/4" tall polyresin finished in blue and silver. Price: $50 |
Seahorse (item #TG/SHORSE): Seahorse, designed by Oberon Zell. Price: $45 US | Seahorse  |
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