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Description: Mishipeshu is the water panther of Native American mythology & Michigan legend. He lives in an island in Lake Superior, where he protects the sacred copper. He causes storms, whirlpools, rapids and waves on the lake. He is said to look like a huge wildcat with copper scales, deer antlers, and spikes along his back. Although a dangerous creature, he is also capable of bringing protection and healing, depending on his mood and how you treat him.
Description: My interpretation of The Star, the 17th Major Arcana Card in the Tarot. It represents hope, inspiration, insight, courage, spiritual enlightenment, and deep healing, particularly following a period of difficulty. Some symbols I have incorporated include bleeding heart (finding beauty in pain, inspiration, healing), primrose (healing grief and heartache, hope amidst despair), firefly (inspiration, light in the darkness, joy, hope), moth (transformation), birch tree (rebirth, new beginnings, growth).
Description: Daisy is inspired by a sweet marionette. She dances in her garden, surrounded by her friends.
Daisy Phone Case
$23
Description: The Mistress Of Copper Mountain is a popular Russian fairytale figure who controls the rich mineral deposits of the Ural Mountains. She wears a malachite dress and has lizard servants (sometimes appears as a lizard herself!). She has rooms of different stones - here she is pictured with her garden of copper flowers, bees of gold, and walls of lapis lazuli.
Description: Bastet is the Ancient Egyptian goddess of cats, women’s secrets, the home, domesticity, childbirth, fertility, perfumes & ointments, and music. She protected the home from evil spirits and disease, particularly diseases associated with women and children. She is a solar deity, and appears here with her related symbols: the Eye of Ra, the ankh, and the sistrum, as well as a cartouche bearing her name. The other motifs used in this illustration are inspired by those seen in Ancient Egyptian tomb and papyrus paintings.
Description: Maria in the Forest, also known as “Maria im Walde” or “Holy Mary of the Forest”, refers to a little known apparition of the Virgin Mary. On June 17, 18 & 19, 1849, she appeared as the Immaculate Conception to three young shepherdesses in a wooded area near Dolina, Grafenstein, Carinthia, Austria. This apparition in celebrated on June 17.
Description: Two whimsical forest spirits, surrounded by their friends - trees, mushrooms, moss, owl, squirrel and flowers. They are very happy, loving spirits, but they are very protective of their forest too. However, if you are kind and loving to the forest and the creatures who dwell there, the forest spirits will be loving and helpful to you too.
Description: Saint Melangell was an Irish princess who fled to Wales to live as a hermit and keep her vow of celibacy. She founded a community for women there, and was abbess for 37 years. She and her sisters offered physical and spiritual healing to the community, which is why I have bordered this illustration with medicinal herbs that were in use in Wales over 1,000 years ago: violets, agrimony, St. John’s Wort, calendula, and comfrey.She is patron saint of hares, rabbits, small animals and the natural environment. Her feast day is May 27 in England, January 31 in Wales, and May 17 for the Eastern Orthodox.
Description: Mishka is a bear, a character that frequently appears in Russian fairytales and folklore. He is generally portrayed as rather kindly, good-natured, but not always particularly smart. He is shown here playing the balalaika. The border of this illustration was inspired by the Russian folk art khokhloma.
Description: I was lucky enough to see this beautiful cicada break free of his shell and start climbing up the sycamore tree in our front yard. He still had moisture on his wings, and they looked iridescent like stained glass! Cicadas have long been symbols of rebirth, longevity, reflection, change, resurrection and immortality.
Description: Her mother and neighbor look on as Aioga is transformed into a goose. Illustration from "Dachshund Furry Tails: Russia".
Aioga Phone Case
$23
