Original art, mounted and framed, 11" x 12 ½", $175.00 USD plus $15.00 shipping within the USA. (Massachusetts residents will be charged 6 ¼% sales tax.)
Image © 1998 E. J. Barnes
Erzulie is the loa of love, and the archetypal feminine. She dresses and grooms herself meticulously, loves gifts, and has many suitors, but Ogun is her favorite. The Catholic saint she is associated with is the Virgin Mary, which is not so odd when one considers that she has a fierce avatar, Erzulie Dantor, the protective yet demanding mother-figure.
The heart pierced with a sword is her traditional vever, but I have replaced the traditional lattice and lace of the heart with an eye-in-heart from The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer. The moons are archetypal Western symbols for the feminine, as are the flowers; in the traditional design, they are stylized, but here I make them explicit.