Rhea Mortar & Pestle

Onça’s Vessels Collection of Alternative Care Products is to assist the healing process, support wellness, and stimulate growth. In a hands on approach, be proactive in ones own journey with health. Onça’s vessel series were handcrafted in east Berlin, Germany by Studio Jarow. The combined components were sourced and brought together in the making of kitchen and altar utensils. Inspired by the craftsmanship of indigenous folk, each piece was individually prepared in honor of their traditions, resembling simplicity, while considering material shape and dynamics. In addition to our Planetary Magic series, we have created singular vessels that complement divine workings with the planetary forces.

MORTAR + METAL PESTLE = RHEA ACCOUTREMENT

BEST FOR: Mortar is used in cooking to prepare wet or oily ingredients as well as grinding spices into powder. The mortar is big enough for domestic use and make great addition to any ritual altar. Combined salts, resins and potions can be grinded and well mixed.

HOW TO: Use, wash and dry well after every use. If the mortar is used primary for ritual practices, do not mix with foods and keep away from children.

COMPONENT DETAILS:

♦ The mortar: Concrete mortar with consecrated earth, size 12 Ø cm, with height of 5 cm. Comes with round polyester underlay.

♦ The pestle: Blackened steel pestle, lined with brown leather, strapped with brown leather strings and wooden beads. The pestle length is 14,5 cm, head width is 3 Ø cm. Total weight of the mortar and pestle is 0,703 kg. Use it to grind many types of seeds, herbs and spices. Enjoy the rich and satisfying flavors.

E N E R G E T I C S

Rhea

Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn and the ninth-largest moon in the Solar System. It is the second smallest body in the Solar System for which precise measurements have confirmed a shape consistent with hydrostatic equilibrium, after dwarf planet Ceres. The triaxial shape of Rhea is consistent with a homogeneous body in hydrostatic equilibrium rotating at Rhea’s angular velocity. Models suggest that Rhea could be capable of sustaining an internal liquid-water ocean through heating by radioactive decay.

Rhea is named after the Titan Rhea of Greek mythology, the “mother of the gods” and wife of Kronos, the Greek counterpart of the god Saturn. Sometime in the 6th century BC, the inhabitants of Ancient Greece hosted celebrations to honor their Mother Goddess, Rhea. Foragers, wildcrafters, and Earth-spirited humans know that one can never have too many teas, herbs, and spices.

Mortar & Pestle

Mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used since the Stone Age to the present day to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The mortar is characteristically a bowl, typically made of hard wood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone such as granite. The pestle is a blunt, club-shaped object. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar where the pestle is pounded, pressed, and rotated into the substance until the desired texture is achieved.

Mortar and pestle in culture and symbols

The antiquity of the mortar and pestle is well documented in early writing, such as the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus of ~1550 BC (the oldest preserved piece of medical literature) and the Old Testament (Numbers 11:8 and Proverbs 27:22). In Indian mythology, Samudra Manthan from Bhagavata Purana creates amrita, the nectar of immortality, by churning the ocean with a pestle.

Since medieval times, mortars would be placed or carved on the gravestones of pharmacists and doctors. Modern pharmacies, especially in Germany, still use mortars and pestles as logos In Russian and Eastern European folklore, Baba Yaga is described and pictured as flying through the forest standing inside a large wooden mortar (stupa), holding the long wooden pestle in one hand to remove obstacles in front of her, and using the broom in her other hand to sweep and remove her traces behind her. This seems as a trace of some ancient rituals connecting the witch symbols of Baba Yaga with the use of mortars in alchemy, pharmacy and early chemistry, which was all seen as magic by uneducated people in Medieval Ages.

Molcajete & Tejolote

A molcajete and tejolote are stone tools, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle, similar to the South American batan, used for grinding various food products. The molcajete was used by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures, including the Aztec and Maya, stretching back several thousand years. Traditionally carved out of a single block of vesicular basalt, molcajetes are typically round in shape and supported by three short legs. They are frequently decorated with the carved head of an animal on the outside edge of the bowl, giving the molcajete the appearance of a short, stout, three-legged animal. The pig is the most common animal head used for decoration of this type.

In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican period, the molcajete had a lid and the set was believed to be used for burial of members in society of high status. Additionally, throughout the prehispanic Mesoamerican period, they were decorated with various colors and designs, and orange wares were identified as the most common characteristic of the molcajete. The matching hand-held grinding tool, known as a tejolote, is made of the same basalt material.

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