Ariadne Tree the Fall Festival of Lights

the Fall Festival of Lights

anger and laziness

6 1/2" x 4 1/2" Ganges clay plaque

the moon and the stars

Growing up in and around the New Jersey Pine Barrens

Ariadne Tree the Fall Festival of LightsGoddess of Ecstatic Trance. Her priestesses bare breasted practiced ritual snake handling ecstatic dancing and prophetic trance. Priestess queens ruled Crete the last culture in recorded history to support equality. Ariadne "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