MEANING: Babalon is a goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema wherein she has three essential aspects: she is the Gateway to the City of Pyramids, the Scarlet Woman, and the Great Mother. Within the Thelemic Tarot deck, this 7-pointed star corresponds to the High Priestess of the Tarot. It is known as the “Priestess of the Silver Star.”
In her most abstract form, Babalon represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman. The Harlot or Scarlet Woman aspect.
She is also identified with Mother Earth: “And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name BABALON.”
She is identified with Binah on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the sphere that represents the Great Sea, and mother-goddesses such as Isis, Bhavani, and Ma'at.
This allows her to represent all physical mothers.
“BABALON, as the Great Mother, represents MATTER, a word which is derived from the Latin word for Mother. She is the physical mother of each of us, the one who provided us with material flesh to clothe our naked spirits; She is the Archetypal Mother, the Great Yoni, the Womb of all that lives through the flowing of Blood; She is the Great Sea, the Divine Blood itself which cloaks the World and which courses through our veins; and She is Mother Earth, the Womb of All Life that we know.”
In Islam, the heptagram is used to represent the first 7 verses in the Quaran
SIZE: Approximately 10.5 x 10.5 inches
THE CARVING: Our carvings are single pieces of western red cedar, designed and carved to be wall hangings. Each carving begins as a 1 X 12-inch cedar board. While we use power tools (Scroll Saw, Rotary shaft Tool, handheld detail sanders, etc.), we use no lasers, CNC machines or computer-operated cutting machines. All work is done with our hands and eyes…
We cut the 2-dimensional blanks with scroll and jig saws (double-sized custom orders have to be cut with a jigsaw). Carving is done with rotary shaft tools and disc grinders. The 80-grit sanding is the final phase of the carving process, removing the nicks and gouges from the carving tools, and finishes the shaping of the weave. The next 2 sandings with 120 and then 220 grit finishes the smoothing and polishing. They are finished with Clear Danish Oil to seal the piece, bringing out the grain and the color.
