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Fire Drop Pendantby ~CosmicFolklore

Artisan Crafts / Jewelry

Fire Drop; sterling silver, ocean jasper, and fire agate.

The fire agate has a medium fire to it, with a nice flash of green and a slight red. This was cut from some rough mined by Mark Anderson and Jessica Dow of ~jessa1155 . I then bored a hole in the ocean jasper leaving a slight taper to the hole, so that the agate could slip in, and I filled in the back with an epoxy.

The metalwork on the face is riveted to the stone to frame the agate.

I am fascinated with how some folklores grew from like myths; such as the raven in the indigenous tribes of the Puget Sound area had a story of a raven being tricked into dropping fire to the earth for man to use. Prometheus dropped fire in the midst of tricking Zeus. Thus, giving mankind fire.

Most myths pertaining to fire, say that it was dropped to earth. But, the stone that to me looks the most like a satellite map of the Earth is this jasper, which ironically is the "ocean" variety, giving it a play on fire and water, especially with the droplet shape of the cab.

Pictured here is just the pendant, but Lora will be stringing this one with a very good quality bronze freshwater pearl. Which will add to the fire/water them of this work.

I hope that you enjoy.
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