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Phidousa Snake Woman — Reawakening the Ancient Serpent Healing Power

In Greece, I fell in love with the Island of Tinos and its inhabitants, known since time immemorial as a site of miracle healing. In the Greek Orthodox Church here, there is a miracle-working icon, visited by pilgrims from around the world. Beneath the Church are the ruins of an ancient temple to Dionysius. I chose the beautiful Bay of Livada as the site for the World Wheel, and carved and painted inside a cave that I called Gaia's laboratory, in honor of the Earth. On the windy cliffs overlooking the bay, I created "Woman Made of the Cosmos", a blue and old giantess whom I dedicated to the wind. To the element of fire, I offered a ten-foot-high driftwood sculpture. And as a salute to water, on the edge of the sea, I sculpted a large granite serpent that was totally submerged in steel gray waves when the sea churned. This 25 foot long serpentine megalith, which I had painted sun-yellow with car enamel represented the ancient Greek healing rites of the island, of sleeping in the presence of snakes. It also represented the ancient name of Tinos, Phidousa, "The Place of the Snake."

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