Sterling silver, 18k gold, hand-carved ivory from recycled piano keys, crazy-lace agate, garnet, and freshwater pearls.
Size 1 1/4" x 2"
Price: $1,200
Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter (the goddess of the harvest) was a young woman of astonishing beauty. Although born of he gods, she lived away from Mount olympus, preferring insead to be a goddess within Nature before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. Picking flowers in a field one day with three nymphs, she was abducted by Hades, who burst up through a cleft in the earth and stole the girl away to his Unerworld realm. Only Helios, the sun, saw the abduction and it was he who finally informed the depressed Demeter, desperately searching for her lost daughter. Upon hearing Helios' story, she turned the three nymphs accompanying Persephone into the Sirens for not having intervened. With Demeter's sadness at the loss of her daughter came th loss of the harvest; the earth was dying, an finally Zeus himself forced Hades to return Persephone. But beneath the dying ground, Hades had persuaded his new Queen to eat six pomegranate seeds, which bound her to rerun to the Underworld six months a year, one for each seed. Thus the seasons were born; spring ruled the earth for half the year when Persephone returned above ground, and winter the other half while she remained with Hades.
A dual-sided woman who showed innocence and a love for nature above ground and a powerful, merciless aspect as the Queen of Hades, Persephone is pictured on the front of the pendant, gently cupping a pomegranate ripe from the tree. Her smile displays her knowledge of both the spring and winter seasons of the earth and human heart. The necklace is 10.5" long.
Sterling silver, 18k gold, hand-carved ivory from recycled piano keys, crazy-lace agate, Australian opal, labradorite, and freshwater pearls.
Price: $1,100
Helen of Troy is one of the most memorable women from myth and perhaps the most inspired character in all literature, ancient or modern. A ten year war raged over the beauty and simple power of this woman: the daughter from the union between Zeus, the father of all gods, and Leda, queen of Sparta. In Helen, the face that launched a thousand ships, the blood of royalty and immortality is mingled.
Born a princess of Sparta and soon widely famed for her stunning beauty, Helen's suitors numbered in the thousands. Every man in the city was most likely secretly in love with her, though her father soon married her to Menelaus, an older king with expansive grounds and power. It is to be imagined that Helen had little say in the matter, and when young Paris - blessed by the goddess Athena - arrived in the kingdom of Sparta, Helen realized her true destiny and eloped with Paris to Troy. Though sometimes maligned for being unfaithful, Helen was truly the opposite: her father denied her the choice of a husband, and so she bravely rebelled against a king and a country to win the right to choose her soulmate. Even after the consequences of her elopement became clear, Helen of Troy remained loyal to her heart and stayed at Paris' side until the end.
Kelly Morgen
Kelly uses a variety of precious metals, natural cabochons, gemstones and ivory from recycled piano keys to create necklaces that celebrate the Divine Feminine. Each piece of her jewelry is designed by the artist and is completely hand-crafted. The goddess necklaces tell a story chosen from mythologies from around the world, ranging from the oceans of the Caribbean to the mountains of China. As an artist, Kelly Morgen aims to draw out the inner goddess in every woman. [more]
