Mayan God With Sea Turtle – Cup & Holder
Description
Ceramic artist Helen Purdum has been a resident artist at Grovewood Village since 2007. After years of making a living in the corporate world, she moved to Asheville and devoted herself full-time to her craft, honing her skills at Penland School of Crafts. All of Purdum’s ceramic art is one-of-a-kind and as unique as the subjects that inspire her.
Mayan Cups
One of the fundamental concepts behind ritual sacrifice in Central America was to feed the earth with “our” food, as the earth feeds us. Stone effigies of turtles and other sea creatures would receive the blood from human sacrifice. Usually the Mayan god N, an aged deity identified with the earth and cosmological world directions, emerges from the turtles’ carapaces (or shells). Depicted on each of the cups is the Sun god Kin (or Kinich Achau), one of the main deities in Mayan mythology.
- Artist: Helen Purdum
- Cups turned by Lee Dansley
- American Made in Asheville, NC
- Mayan God with Sea Turtle
- Ceramic cup & holder
- Cup dimensions: 6.75″ H x 3.25″ W x 3.25″ D
- Turtle dimensions: 7″ L x 4″ W x 2″ H
$135.00
1 in stock
