Mary Saint-Marie
Bronze Sculptures

 

Serpent-Priestess-SHE

serpents...they enter unto the crown...
and they…
do enter now…unto the feet…

merging…they…unto the heart…
and rapture…it does come…

One day long ago in the far and forever sky of Her being…
endless serpents did enter into Her crown and they did enter
into Her feet.  From the sky and the earth they journeyed to
the center of Her being.  There they did join.

Love appeared…
and burst into waves of creation.
Love did sing a new song…

 

  Warrior-Priestess-SHE…in flight…

SHE…flies to the farthest realm…
           where truth lies hidden…
Returning…It is her shield…

           
Separation…it is slain…

Here…true woman…warrioress of truth…
finds the deepest secret in
dedication to the farthest flight…

 

 The story of these two bronze sculpture:

In 2004, I was meditating one night and in inner vision, I was lifted into another realm.

I beheld a Female Quetzalcoatl (Christed being) dancing a dance of love in the Void.  Beauty unveiled.  Seen and known and felt.  

The  feminine Quezalcoatl revealed a glimpse of her dance upon the earth.  SHE is both masculine and feminine.  SHE is of the earth and of the sky.  SHE is of the winged ones and the serpent wisdom world.  SHE lives where seeming inner/outer do melt away to pure beinginess.  SHE lives ever in the place that is placeless.  And SHE does sing.  And SHE does dance.  And SHE is illumined. 

Not long after that I was awakened in the night to the music of the spheres, which opens in deep and silent moments.  I usually must be very still to hear this music of sublime ecstacy.  This night was different.  I was inspired to arise and walk out on my south patio under the vast stars and moon.  I could still hear the inner music.  I allowed it to dance my naked body under the celestial canopy.  Peace already is.

Sometime later I was inspired to create these two sculptured figures of that female Quetzalcoatl who is the sacred winged serpent.  In western terms, she would be regarded as an illumined being, a liberated one or a Christed figure. Love manifest.

Another mystic serpent experience came to me in the 80’s.  In a glimpse and for a moment, I was aware of all is love. Ecstasy poured from me in ripples and waves out into eternity.  Waves of the eternal…as a river into Infinity.  Love reveals Itself in many forms.   This waking experience was catalyzed by a dream of hundreds of serpents entering my crown and entering my feet and journeying to my heart.  When they met in the heart from above and below, great waves and waves of love flowed from out my heart and the wisdom that is love filled my being.

 

Sculpture story from 1988:

In 1988, I began sculpting ceremonial kachina sculptures.  Many of them ended up in large ceremonial cactus gardens with plants, sticks, stones, feathers, crystals, found bones and candles.  The ceremonial gardens represented our lives attuned to Source.  They reflected a simple, organic and natural life of living ceremony…a life at one with the kingdoms and the elements and at the same time close to the starry nights of this vast and infinite universe. A life at One with Creator and Creation!  Creator AS creation.   No separation.  All in the mystical circle cactus gardens clearly were dancing as the ONE.