This image from Denon in Gaul shows Epona placidly seated on a mare, accompanied by a foal, with her hand bestowing blessing. A perfect gift for a horse lover.

[Musee Denon, Gallo-Roman era]

Red/Black colored Gypsumstone statue.

His secure, solid, and sexual presence reflects qualities of beingness common to vegetative and animal life forms unburdened by the human quest for rationality. The Herne "wildman" shares qualities of fertility with Kernunnos and the foliate-headed Green Man carved into chapel cloisters throughout western Europe. [design from oral tradition]

Pomona: Orchards and Vineyards. Pomona's passion is for cultivated countryside. A Goddess of growth and abundance, she symbolizes Autumn and all fruition through hard work. Apples everywhere are associated with goddess worship. An apple cut sideways reveals a Roman star of knowledge. Her name comes from the Latin for apple, pomum. Roman banquets went "from eggs to apples," as a final invocation of Pomona's good will.

"I am the ancient Apple-Queen
As once I was, so am I now.
Fore evermore a hope unseen,
Betwixt the blossom and the bough.
Ah, where's the river's hidden Gold!
And where the windy grave of Troy?
Yet come I as I came of old,
From out the heart of Summer's joy"
-- Pomona by William Morris

white marble color resin.

The Roman Goddess of Love (Greek Aphrodite) was also Goddess of the Oceans. This famous image, Venus rising from the seafoam, comes from wall frescos at Pompeii, the Italian coastal city where she was particularly venerated. As Goddess of Sexual Love, Her famous Renaissance depiction, birthed from sea-foam, belies her earlier association with Artemis as a Lady of the Hunt.

Her horned consort was Adonis, and her worship by the Romans included temple instruction in sacred sexual techniques for achieving heightened spiritual consciousness. The metal associated with Aphrodite is copper which is abundant on the Isle of Cyprus, an early place of worship.

White marble colored Gypsumstone.

Vesta turns Housework, or any Chore, into Worship. Vesta, Roman Goddess of Household Harmony (whose Greek name Hestia means "hearth"), is accompanied by the donkey-god Pales, a symbol of creative labor and fertility throughout the ancient world. The serpent represents Vesta's generative function, while her scepter and headdress signify her rank. Harmony will reign in your hearth and home as you meditate on this image.

[Berlin Staatliche Museum, 2nd cent. CE]

Brown/gray Gypsumstone statue.