Yesterday’s post was a look at maternal love, at the nurturing and training and discipline of each young individual that makes a love in all its forms, that which creates a thriving community and culture, truly viable.
On this day, it’s parenting of another sort that makes love and life and light all possible.
Today, it’s a look at the love of Father Sun, as expressed in the existence of peoples born of his fiery red presence.
Today’s featured work summons his shade and shape and spirit, all molten silver and red flames. From its description in the relevant section of the Bracelets Gallery here on the site:
Born of a Red Sun Cuff Bracelet
We are peoples born of a red sun. Wings honors its life-giving, life-sustaining power with three slender strands of silver braided together, flowing outward from a fiery carnelian orb. The outer strands are formed of slim lengths of half-round wire stretched gently outward at the center and bisected by a delicate strand of twisted silver, all three soldered securely together at either end. The outer bands are stamped with tiny wingéd beings that fly to the point where the band curves around the wrist, below which and extending to the ends are chased lightning patterns, summoning the imagery of those who hold the power of the storm. At the center, a glossy oval carnelian cabochon, all blood-red translucent fire, rests solidly in a saw-toothed bezel. At five inches in overall length, the bracelet is sized appropriately for small-wristed adults, youth, and children. Band is a half-inch across at the widest point; carnelian cabochon is a half-inch long by 3/8″ across at the widest point.
Sterling silver; carnelian
$425 + shipping, handling, and insurance
This cuff’s small size is no coincidence. Originally conceived as a baby bracelet, Wings wound up making it large enough to accommodate smaller adult-sized wrists, as well. It’s a design well-suited in its simplicity to an adult as much as to a child.
But it’s more than that.
Even the most ancient among us are but children compared to the Sun and Earth we acknowledge and honor, respectively, as Father and Mother. We know well that our Mother Earth sustains us, providing food and water and shelter and medicine; her love enables our own.
Less obvious, or at least more easily taken for granted, is that of Father Sun . . . but his is an elemental love of warmth and light. We who are born of a red sun have reason to know of its love, and its gifts, and to know the responsibility to pass them on in our way to future generations.
~ Aji
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