Serpent & Stang Pendant default-HIDE and personal accounts we sought

and personal accounts we sought for this issue of PILLARS

A fire in the woods

or the abstract mathematic of ‘randomness’

or perhaps lighter

ordeal and self-sacrifice

Serpent & Stang Pendant default-HIDE and personal accounts we soughtThis sterling silver pendant depicts a coiled serpent entwined around the stanga sacred forked staff long associated with witchcraft, spirit flight, and the crossing of thresholds between worlds. Both symbols are deeply rooted in traditional craft: the serpent as keeper of hidden wisdom, chthonic power, and renewal; the stang as the witchs axis, a living compass between the underworld, this middle world and the skies above. The serpents sinuous form