What do all these sage women have in common? The ability to honor our natural cycles of growth and decay, synthesizing and sculpting the disparate bones of life. In La Loba's case she sings them back to re-birth the wolf. Life-blood at it's finest. Flow replaces vacancy and the cycles of life... repeat.
“La Loba” in folklore is the “Bone Collector”. The more bones she collects, the more alive the animal becomes. La Loba is one of many powerful spirits Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Ph.D discusses in her book "Women Who Run With the Wolves". When I first read about La Loba, chills rushed and my eyes watered. There is a Bone Collector goddess?!! Ahhh...heroes. This book continues to inspire my journey through life. The true sculptors are my own dogs who deliciously etch and wear each bone. Molds are made and my own sculpting begins.
Life is blending, fading, then bursting open again...
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La Loba 2013 Casted Glass - Sherri Gamble |
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"You can dent the soul and bend it. You can hurt it and scar it. You can leave marks of illness upon it, and scorch marks of fear. But it does not die, for it is protected by La Loba in the underworld. She is both the finder and incubator of bones. Bones are heavy enough to hurt with, sharp enough to cut through flesh, and when old and if strung, tinkle like glass.
The bones of the living are alive and creatural in themselves, they constantly renew themselves. A living bone has a curiously soft "skin" to it. It appears to have certain powers to regenerate itself. Even dry as a bone, it becomes home for small living creatures. Today the old one inside you is collecting bones. What is she re-making?"
Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Ph.D, Women Who Run with the Wolves
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