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sannion is looking for music relevant to Greco-Roman/Egyptian deities. Some of you can surely help him out. I personally want to see what people come up with. I feel like I should have answers, but I am so immersed in Nordic music lately that seems unlikely. Also, I'd be very curious to see if anyone comes up with anything Anubis-related that isn't a crappy goth tune (not that I object to crappy goth tunes, quite the contrary, but I'm familiar enough not to be curious).

Quasi-randomly, this prompts me to ask, what deity-type statues or things do you all have in your houses. It occurs to me that Patty and I have a Ganesha, an Anubis (these first two are both mine, and I realize, in a weird, inappropriate math way that Ganesh + Anubis sort of equals Hermes, who I've had an affinity for since I was really small), and (I think) at least two Buddhas (one is hers, and one is my Mizuko Jizo).

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I have a Buddha and two Aphrodites. One is a relief rather than full 3D, though.

I have a statue of Demeter in my kitchen for obvious reasons, and a small Buddha just because.

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I would be very curious to know. I sort of have a long, complicated relationship with Anubis (or he with me, perhaps). I realize, looking at your site, it's one I've visited quite a few times over the last year or two, so I'm amused that I've now bumped into on LJ thanks to a rec on my friends list.

O haha.

We have a statue of Set, a Setian stele, a Stele of Revealing, two statues of Inanna, three statues of Kali (two bronze, one carved stone), a small bronze Ganesha, a goddess figure that some friends gave me, to which I feel a very special connection, but damned if I can figure out who she is yet. Two Vodou dolls, (those are R's; one is Baron Samedi, I think the other is Papa Legba). A big bunch of glass grapes that came to me from my great-grandfather, but that I use as a fetish for Geshtinanna when the time is right. My Kali lunchbox.

On the walls: a heretical icon that I bought at my local Greek Orthodox cathedral, which shows a very Gnostic interpretation of Eden, a large Ganesha print on cloth, several small artworks that represent Inanna to me, some Egyptian relief sculpture with Hathoor and Isis, a painting of Nuit, other stuff that is in storage, so I am forgetting it.

Not listed: animal magick fetishes/statuettes (started to list them and it got too complicated) HGA stuff, jewelry, ancestor stuff.

I also have a big Innana tattoo on my back, but it really isn't exactly how I want it, so I plan to have it covered and get the Inanna I really want somewhere else.

I am envious of your heretical icon. That is exactly the sort of thing I'd love to stumble upon for the house at some point.

Well you, my dear, are in luck, because when I brought mine (which is a reproduction, not an original) home I researched it, and you can purchase your very own copy here.

I have the larger size and I recommend getting that one, else you will miss a lot of detail.

Adam and Eve are in the garden, standing beneath the tree. They are surrounded by the four archangels, and God is above them. There are a bunch of saints whose names I don't know, also in the frame.

The Serpent is in the tree. It wears a crown, and holds the Apple in its mouth; Eve is accepting the Apple from the Serpent's mouth.

This is a pretty unusual scenario to see in an Orthodox Christian artwork. I am thinking Bogomils or something similar infiltrated the local church. The original was painted on glass in Roumania.

Oh, thank you so much for the link. I really love that style of art and of course the context here is just too fabulous.

You're welcome. I am totally in love with it, myself. I went to the festival not intending to buy anything, but this icon just drew me and I kept going back to stand in front of it mooning until R bought it so we could go home :)

I love the reverse perspective seen in traditional icons.

...odd. We appear to be in the "no representations of deities" camp. Despite having a half-dozen or so apiece. There's some foxes and coyotes, some more totemish than others; a few bits of jewelry (Kai wears constantly a Hermes-and-pentacle thingie) and other weird things (why yes, I do have deity-appropriate lingerie, thanks to fabric paint), and implements of faith on our altars, but nothing that anyone with any background in the subject could look at and say "That is the representation of a deity."

Which is kind of odd now that I think about it. I suspect it is our dislike of bibelots and my own tendency towards not so many visual representations of things like that which combine to form a deity-picture-free household.

Then again, my primary faith tends to deify things like big trees and be kind of vague on what a kami looks like.

I have a (not full size!) replica of the Winged Victory of Samothrace and a Kuan Yin.

Sitting on top my jewelry box, have a rather unusual bronze Ganesha--someday I need to take a picture of him because he's very unlike most depictions I've seen--and an almost abstract Goddess figure painted on a blue jar. I suspect between the two of us, we have several more statues and figurines stashed away in boxes.

Also, we have a stuffed Anubis in the car.

I have a very tiny Buddah my best friend gave me when me and the hubby were trying to get pregnant. No other statues, but I have a pen with the cat-head goddess, I wanna say Hathor, on the end.

Not many statues of deities, just write books about 'em. I should get me an Isis. Or an Athena, she seems to be seeping into my existence these last couple of years.

I've a priapic Cernunnos (large member ahoy!), and a small carved fluorite Buddha... have been pondering Sekhmet but still not sure. And for "deity-like" I'd very much like a Millenial Gaia but can't find one this side of the pond :(

ummmm... my mother brought us a big bronze Bastet in 2006 for my birthday. other than that, nothing.

not that we're statuary types, really. I do have a gorgeous St. Anne postcard over my desk, and used to have one of Green Tara, but my cats liked it and took it away...

I have a kachina doll... I think that is it.

First off, thanks for linking the music project! I'm the one doing the assembling, and I appreciate the assistance.

We have a bunch of idols, all over the house. :) Athena (amazing olive-wood owl from Israel), Bast, a replica Greek oil lamp for Hestia, a really sexy statue of Eros and Psyche, Libertas, Quan Yin, the Buddha, and a cross-stitch I did of Isis, Osiris and Horus (that's what I can think of right now)... we have some other images floating around, pictures of Dionysos, Hades and Persephone, and such. And, of course, the Playmobil shrine that my 7-year-old and I are slowly assembling... :)

All I've got is a small Prosperity Buddha given me by

bigjimsjazz. My friend Liz has a Kuan-Yin.

I worship the god of massive art -- I have giant paintings all over my house and little tiny tchochskies (miniature violin, oragami, found objects).

Oh wait -- I just remembered that I have a tiny jade buddha in a box under the bed.

When I went to Prague I wandered into a store one day that was dark and strange, and where much of the light was reflections off glass panels and crystal chandeliers. I wandered around between genuine antiques of the Old World and strange debris of the New. I turned a corner and it opened up into a room with a twelve foot ceiling and an entire wall covered in icons. Real icons, the kind smuggled out of monasteries and churches in Russia, icons probably from the time of Rublev. I wanted to buy some of them so terribly. They were probably stolen or illegally removed from the country during the 90s. I was the only person there, aside from the shop owner who looked at me askance. I just smiled and left. I still keep kicking myself.

I have a few icons made by the monks not far from here, one of which shows the crowning of Nicholas II and Alexandra.

Yeah, at the very least you could have rescued them. You and I and our brushes with native artifact theft!

When I was a child the only person I knew with religious symbols in the home was my paternal grandmother, and she had several buddhas. It is an eccentricity I wish I'd asked her about, as when we we were reunited in my adulthood these statues were gone and the rich red decor she'd once preferred had been replaced by drab olive green. The few times I've been able to visit her grave, I've left her small buddhas rather than flowers.

In my home, I have some statues of Bodhisattvas, several small ones of Kali, a dancing Ganeseh, an Indian temple dog, small framed images of Cernunnos, a statue of a forgotten cat goddess discovered in Florida, and a small totem pole.

I have one statue of Anubis, a large Bast on a matching pedestal that makes her almost as tall as me. Then I have a small Bast figurine too, a Priapos, and a Boddhisattva... Oh small statue of Hathor. I think that's it. :-)

I have tons of Ganesha, a few Kali, and one Shiva. :)

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