New goddesses!

As Goddess of the forge, hearth, inspiration, smithcraft, cattle and dairies, and healing, Bridget is a Celtic wonder. My form is a lantern herself, in stoneware. You can lift her off the base, where all kinds of attributes are inscribed, and insert a votive candle.

She holds another lantern, much as a smithy might make.

Her cloak is closed with an ancient style clasp, a circle of metal with a pin piercing the cloth through it.

On her shoulder is her emblem, the Bridget cross, or an equal armed cross formed of folded reeds.

Saint Bridget is the Catholic version of much the same woman. (her name is spelled many different ways also) As a goddess she once asked the ruler of Ireland for more land on which to graze her cattle. He said you may have as much land as your cloak might cover (being a benevolent person). Her cloak then showed her powers, for as she flung it out, it magically extended to the shores on every side of the island. If you visit Ireland, I'm told, you might well believe she is more the patron of it than Patrick.

Bridget's day is Feb. 1st. She is also known as the one who taught us how to keen, and how to whistle.

This is the lyre player. She doesn't have a name yet, as I haven't researched much as to goddesses of music. I remember some wonderful medieval nuns...but I'm pretty sure some goddess must have been attributed this great gift to humankind.

The lyre player is also stoneware, and lifts her head above the crescent moon in inspiration.

Sacajawea graces this torso, altered of course. Stoneware with a lid, and on top of the lid is actually a coin with Sacajawea face.

There are four faces depicted in the four directions, with eyes open, closed, or winking at you.
This is partly because I enjoyed making more anatomically correct breasts on this pot, and laughing at how I could exaggerate them, and how different visitors to our studio would have reactions to them. It's all art, and it's all in fun!

And of course a womanly figure does have more than breasts, as the reverse side always shows.

This is an uncovered goddess torso pot. She wears a bit of necklace to remind us of her royal status, though she is proud of her breasts, the source of nurturance and her own erotic pleasures. It's such a shame that our western culture has allowed women's breasts to become objectified (i.e. sex-objects for men's interest). So these pots are my attempt to help women reclaim our own anatomy, in a way.

The end.