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Monday, November 30, 2009
The Moon-Goddess, Horned
Fall 2009: sculpture mix, glazed with multiple layers of transparent brown, stormy blue, and celadon. I feel pretty good; I was aiming at these effects, but she's far more lovely than I anticipated. The Moon Goddess, Horned: believe it, believe her.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."