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Index of the symbols used in my jewelry

ASASE YE DURU     West African ..."the Earth has weight" symbol of providence and the divinity of Mother Earth.  This symbol represents the importance of the Earth in sustaining life.

"Nautilus shell and Phi"

This symbol was designed as an alternative to the original symbol of the Raelian Movement, which was comprised of a hexagram intertwined with a right-facing swastika. Western sensitivities to the swastika led the Raelians to adopt this alternative in 1991, although they have since officially returned to the older symbol, believing that education was more effective than avoidance in dealing with such matters.

"Om"  Ancient Sanskrit Om was referred to as "the supreme syllable, the mother of all sound" the great Goddess's tool of creation.  the first of all creative spells spoken by the Goddess to bring the world into being.  this symbol  also represents fours states of consciousness, awake, dreaming, sleep (no dream) and the transcendental state.

"Om"  Dzogchen Tibetan symbol;  a slightly different design then the Hindu Om.  This "om" represents the 3 gates, body, breath and mind the total perfection signifies and enables us to discover our true condition.

"Utchat"  Egypt's sacred eye symbol also known as the eye of Maat, Horus, of Thoth and of Ra.  Maat was the original all seeing eye and mother of truth.   During the Dynastic period in Egyptian history as 2 eyes "Udjatti" were interpreted as the eye of the moon (Thoth) and the eye of the sun (Ra) and were used as a protection  symbol against all manners of evil.

  All Seeing Eye (Eye of Providence) "Eye of Horus" a symbol of omniscience. Egyptian symbol of the eye within the pyramid originally representing the god enclosed waiting to be reborn, entombed in the underworld "Seker" Lord of death with open eyes, remaining alive and watchful. 

"Snake / Serpent"  One of the oldest symbols found in various civilizations.  Preclassic Aegean civilization considered the snake /the symbol of women as holy symbolizing the power of life. Snakes represented immortality, indefinite by the shedding of old skin and generating new skin. 

In India, the mother of all that moves, the female serpent "Kundalini" inner power of the human body.  Also in India the  goddess of the earth is sometimes known as "Sarparajni" serpent queen. 

An ancient Hebrew myth refers to an angry serpent goddess of "Kadesh" meaning she-serpent, "Nehushtah, Goddess of Kadesh.

The Egyptian goddess of the serpent  "Wadjet"  is one goddess, with many names, "Wadjet", "Edjo", "Udjo", and "Buto".   "Wadjet" is primarily as a snake-headed protector of Lower Egypt, the delta region. However, the ancient people of northern area worshiped "Wadjet" as a Goddess. "Wadjet" was revered as the goddess of childbirth, and protector of children, and in later years she became the protector of kings.  The symbol of justice, time, heaven and hell, "Wadjet" is one of the oldest Egyptian goddesses.

One of the African symbols of the snake is meant to depict the messenger sprit.

"2 snakes intertwined/ copulating snakes"  The Latin symbol meaning the opposing forces of death and regeneration , the Caducei of Asclepius, Hermes and Hygeia.

"Ouroboros"    the Snake eating it's own tail.  Ouroboros is associated with Alchemy, Gnosticism and Hermeticism. It represents the cyclical nature of things, eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end.   Again the "Ouroborus" can be found in many different cultures from ancient Egypt, circa 1600 B.C.E., passed to Phoenicia and then to the Greeks who gave the snake the name "Ouroboros" meaning the tail-devourer.  Nore mythology the serpent Jormungand, one of the 3 children of Loki - the Trickster who grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth.   Hindu mythology- the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world.   Meanings; cyclical nature of things, eternal return, dual nature of all things, creation out of destruction, life out of death, totality.

     "Ischtar's Star"     Babylonian 8 pointed star, "Ischtar's Star".  Meaning the queen of the heavens, the god of childbirth, fertility and sexual pleasures. The only real women god in Babylon and Assyria history until Christianity.

"Sumerian goddess Inanna " represented by the 8 pointed star. was a goddess associated  with the moon, the planet Venus and the serpent. Being explicitly a goddess of sexuality and fertility,

"The clockwise spiral"  Associated with water, power, independent movement and outgoing migration.  The basic element of the spiral were found on prehistoric caves.  On a later date the spiral is found on discos from Crete around 2000 BC and in Tibet as a symbol for potential power.

"The counter clockwise spiral"  This sign appeared in Euphrates cultures as early as 2000 BC.  An Egyptian hieroglyphic this spiral represents thread or measurement.  It is also found in Chinese ideography  and Hopi Indian symbol meaning return or homecoming.

"Celtic Triskele"   found in ancient Celtic 5000 or 6000 years ago, this symbol is called the cycle of life representing, land, sky and sea.  Also know as the 3 aspects of the material world contained in every object.  Also known as the Cauldron symbol,  representing maiden, mother and crone all aspects of the goddess.

 "Greek Love Symbol / Lyre" Between 600 and 400 B.C. the lyre and the flower were the attributes of Eros, the god of sexual love.

"A triangle within a circle" represents the elements in an alchemical context, and as a symbol for the Christian idea of three-in-one, the Holy Trinity

Triangle of Art (Solomon triangle, Triangle of  Evocation Cabalistic symbol: Typically, the central circle is inscribed with the seal of the spirit to be invoked. The usual form is of a triangle, circumscribed with various words of power, containing an inner, blackened circle.   The purpose of the triangle is to contain the manifested entity. In some cases, the triangle is created as a physical object; sometimes, the central circle is replaced with a black crying mirror.

  "Holy place" An Adinkira print symbol on clothing from Ghana, Nyame dua, meaning holy place. Nyame dua is also drawn  which is identical to an old Swedish peasant design from Östergötland and the eighteenth century. This sign was a common structure in antiquity in both Greece and Byzantium. It is a common design in Nordic and other countries' peasant art from the Middle Ages.

    " North Node" The point where the moon cuts the ecliptic from south to north is known as the moon's north node or caput draconis, the dragon's head.   The north node was drawn in a Greek natal chart more than 2,000 years ago.
    According to astrology in a natal chart is a symbol for gifts.

  "South Node"  According to astrology the south node in the natal chart is associated with sacrifices and efforts that life demands without giving anything in return. Both the north and south nodes are associated with blood ties and sexual contacts that lead to childbirth

"Hathor " Egyptian symbol was originally a personification of the Milky Way, which was seen as the milk that flowed from the udders of a heavenly cow.

.  "Sun" symbol" According to a German source an alchemical sign for aurum, gold, The sun sign  is the most common of the alchemists' many signs for gold.
    This symbol was also found carved into a rock face in the Altaj mountains in Siberia.

"Anchor"  Used by the ancient Romans symbolizing steadfastness. Ancient Hebrew 6:19 "the anchor of our soul".  Freemason's placed an anchor on Jacob's ladder as a goal to be attained.

Ancient Assyrian/Babylonian Cuneiform

  "Love of my life"

" the universe"    " the obvious"

Information on Stones;

"Trapiches Emerald Stone"   Found only in Colombia at Coscuez, La Peńa and the celebrated Muzo mining district,  these are perhaps the rarest  and unusual of "pattern" gems. 

 TRAPICHE is the result of the growth of an Emerald Crystal with darkened impurity of lutite. As the Crystal grows in its normal six-sided shape, the darker lutite is pushed to the center of the Crystal and then radiates out in the six directions of the corners of the Crystal. Six spoke-like carbon "rays" emanating from a hexagonal center with the areas in between filled with lively emerald green.

To be continued...