Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Asintmah


 It's taken some time but I've finally finished Asintmah!  She's hanging at Rabbit Creek Pottery with some smaller saints and goddesses.  The leaves on the other side of her grotto are all coppery and fallish looking.....I'm very pleased with her!

Here's a very condensed version of her story....in case you've forgotten:


Asintmah
Athabaskan Goddess

Asinthmah was the first woman to walk the earth.  
As midwife to the earth she wove a blanket of fireweed flowers for a cover and sang to ease the pain of the earth giving birth to the animals.

                                                                         “Thus was the earth populated from woman’s art and woman’s song.”