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Blood Milk Jewels

Petite Pythia. Lavender Quartz Necklace. *Limited*

$450.00

Blood Milk Jewels

Petite Pythia. Lavender Quartz Necklace. *Limited*

$450.00

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IMPORTANT: This jewel is limited and we do not know if they'll be available again in the future. We recommend Express Shipping with signature required upon delivery to make sure it arrives safely into your hands. 

Please note : This necklace will be created with an 18" bar link chain. If you desire a different chain length, please reach out to us immediately after placing your order. 

A variation of our beloved Pythia design, this necklace features a unique double sided setting that echoes the style of a baroque mirror frame. The tiny, delicate silver life cast bat bones, cradle a Rose Cut Lavender Quartz. This mirror inspired design is meant to represent the divinatory aspect of ‘crystal gazing,’ a nod to the divinatory roles of the Pythia.

Pythia was the name given to the high priestess at the Oracle of Delphi; always a woman, who would be possessed by the God Apollo to directly receive his enigmatic prophecies, as she inhabited a dream-like trance. When she was consulted, she was thought to have sat upon the three legged tripod of Apollo deep within the subterranean levels of the site of Delphi, which was considered to be the center or ‘navel’ of the world and the site where Apollo slayed Python, son of Gaia, a serpentine/dragon-like monster. It is from the rotting corpse of Python beneath the temple, that Pythia gets her name. Much like modern divinatory requests, it seems the Pythia was consulted for ubiquitous queries such as ‘whom should I marry?” to more potentially history changing questions from rulers about to go to war. In every instance, the Pythia’s divinations were considered to be coming directly from Apollo and therefore unimpeachable.

Bats:

Bats and their cast wing and leg bones have long been a component I’ve used in my visual library as a way of creating a personal visual language. As nocturnal creatures, I feel a kinship with their natural predilection for the night time hours, but I’m also interested in how they use sonar to ‘see’, how as a metaphor bats as liminal creatures also remind us to look closer with our other senses, a way of ‘seeing the unseen.’ It’s my hope and intention that pairing them with other chthonic imagery and myth further adds to the visual meaning I’m aiming for, creating a collage of personal ideas while also tethering these physical jeweled objects to the spirit of the bat ( and other natural objects in the case of other jewels in my collection ) and to the spirit of the myths I’m invoking.

 

*Details* :

- 24 mm at its widest 

- 33 mm from top to bottom 

- Solid Sterling Silver  

- Seen on Miguel on a 20" chain

- Both pendant and chain are hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray and then highlighted to reveal the bright luminous silver beneath

- Set with one 20 mm Rose Cut Lavender Quartz 

 

Lavender Quartz:

These Lavender Quartz gemstones are hand/shaped cut and therefore may have slight differences in size as well as small signs of the carver's hands along the edges. As these are hand cut and not fabricated by a machine, they can never be uniformly perfect. The photographs accurately portray the quality of the stones and the cuts.

***Please note that while Lavender Quartz can traditionally range in color from pink to deeper shades of lavender, our offerings for this jewel are all a pale, ghostly lavender. 

Lavender quartz is a rare form of quartz found in one location in Brazil. Much like Rose Quartz, it can be used as an emotional ally, helpful in heartache or times of crisis as a comfort to the emotional body. It is also known to have a calming effect to those who  struggle with anxiety. 

 

***IMPORTANT***

This jewel is handmade to order, just for you, with care and focus. Please allow approximately 6-8 weeks for creation before shipping.                   

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