1067 – Lord and Lady Altar Figures
- Physical description:
- Pair of stylised carved wood Lord and Lady figures - Lady painted silver, with moon symbol on head, Lord painted green, ithyphallic and antlered.
- Museum classification:
- Modern Witchcraft
- Size:
- 200 x 80 x 80 mm
- Information:
Lord and Lady Altar Figures.
These figures were carved some years ago by Aslan, a witch from Aberystwyth. They represent The Lady of the Moon and The Lord of the Wild Hunt and were donated to the museum by their maker in October 1997.
Aslan provided the text below with the figures:
Witches honour and worship the divine in both the female and the male. The Goddess is both Mother Earth and the ever changing moon whose fluctuations influence the tides and the cycles within humans, plants and animals. She is the fertile land, the flowing waters and the warmth of the hearth fire; the Mysteries of birth and death are her domain.
Deep in the ancient forests and craggy mountains the horned or antlered Witches' God is honoured as the spirit of the chase and of variety; his is the instinct to survive and to reproduce. The Christian Church demonised his anarchic and sexual beauty, reconstructing his image as Satan, the horned and cloven hoofed embodiment of evil.- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Wood
Lord and Lady Altar Figures.
These figures were carved some years ago by Aslan, a witch from Aberystwyth. They represent The Lady of the Moon and The Lord of the Wild Hunt and were donated to the museum by their maker in October 1997.
Aslan provided the text below with the figures:
Witches honour and worship the divine in both the female and the male. The Goddess is both Mother Earth and the ever changing moon whose fluctuations influence the tides and the cycles within humans, plants and animals. She is the fertile land, the flowing waters and the warmth of the hearth fire; the Mysteries of birth and death are her domain.
Deep in the ancient forests and craggy mountains the horned or antlered Witches' God is honoured as the spirit of the chase and of variety; his is the instinct to survive and to reproduce. The Christian Church demonised his anarchic and sexual beauty, reconstructing his image as Satan, the horned and cloven hoofed embodiment of evil.