“NUMINA” Masks for the Elements

By Lauren Raine

Numina:

"An indwelling intelligence or power felt in a particular place, or in the whole world......

The origins of the Roman gods may be the sense of numinous presences underlying all the processes of the natural world."

Making a mask is finding a face for what is vast, hidden, elemental or invisible…..

Creating Story is giving it a voice

Spider Woman passed on this creative power

to all of Her Relations.

Each time a mask is worn by a new person a new story is discovered…..

"When you create within a sacred paradigm you find you are communicating with what is within you - but also has a greater source somewhere else.

You collaborate with something timeless.”

Elizabeth Fuller, ActressTHE INDEPENDENT EYE

“Genus Loci” – “Spirit of Place”: What Faces do they wear?

THE SEASONS life, death &

rebirth

Corn MotherSustainer of the Americas

Grain (Ceres) The Staff of life

“The Ocean Face” & “The River Face”

Sedna Arctic Ocean Mother

Kilauea (Pele)

Elemental Builder of the Hawaiian Islands

VOLCANO

Giving birth to new lands

the Heart of the Earth

POMONAKeeper of the

Orchards

Flowering

ICE

“Our Lady of the Waters”The Desert Spring

“Dawn”Hope

Sacred Places

RAINBOW

For The Global Tribe

Forest

Dark and LightChaos and Order

Drought

Drought

STORM

Storm

Spider Woman Weaver of the Web of Interdependency

PACHAMAMA

Mother Earth

All masks are by Lauren Raine MFA

www.laurenraine.comwww.rainewalker.com