Friday, May 13, 2011

#22

To me the challenge was not to use an image of a beautiful girl etc.  So I turned to indigenous cultures and found this energetic goddess from the Andes (Wikipedia) and combined her with a painting of birch trees by Zoltan Szabo as the background.  I have included the information from Wilipedia,


Mother nature

The indigenous peoples of the Andes worship the fertility goddess Pachamama. In Inca mythologyPachamama presides over planting and harvesting and causes earthquakes. After conquest by Catholic Spain her image was masked by the Virgin Mary, behind whom she is invoked and worshiped in the Aboriginal ritual in some parts of ArgentinaChileBolivia and Peru.[4] The religion centered in the Pachamama is practiced currently in parallel form to Christianity, to the point that many families are simultaneously Christian and pachamamistas.[5] Pachamama is sometimes syncretized the Virgin of Candelaria.[6]

2 comments:

  1. the colors and the figure blend well.. unique picture for the theme..

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  2. Beautiful idea. very well presented.

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