Paula Offutt on sat 12 jul 97
george said:
>Marcia- thats very interesting, but pottery predates Christianity indeed
>civilization and there must have been many pagan gods and goddesses some
>of whom may have become subsumed into the Christian ones as so often
>happened. Does anyone know about the pagan ones? george
I looked it up once somewhere. The Egyptian god of pottery was Kumm. At
Haywood, our "class" had a kiln "dog". One of us made a small sculpture
of a dog and we put it on top of the kiln. We gave it "offerings" of our
fave stuff. Pez, choc. chip cookies, an oak leaf, etc. We had some really
good firings too!!
Paula (in humid WNC)
PS I have sent a message to my step-dad who is deeply Catholic to ask him
to nose thru the web and other archives to see what he can find.
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