Serpent & Stang Pendant default-HIDE Author: Daniel A

Author: Daniel A

and personal accounts we sought for this issue of PILLARS

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A fire in the woods

Serpent & Stang Pendant default-HIDE Author: Daniel AThis 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