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 + PANACEA BOWL + MILL STONE = INUIT MEDICINE

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. The flat medicine bowl surface makes it perfect for holding incense, particularly backflow incense burners and cone incense.

HOW TO: Use, rinse 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.

COMPONENTS:

♦ The mortar: Concrete mortar made with cement and consecrated earth, size 11,5 Ø cm x 6 cm height, weighting 0,836 kg.

♦ The pestle: Flint is quartz that has been crystalized. Fire stone (flint) pestle weighting 0,309 kg, size 8 x 6 cm. Designed to fit comfortably in the hand, together with the mortar, use it to grind many types of seeds, herbs and spices. Enjoy the rich and satisfying flavors.

♦ The medicine bowl: Concrete panacea bowl made with two types of cement and consecrated earth, size 11,5 Ø cm x 4,5 cm height, weighting 0,335 kg.

E N E R G E T I C S

Medicine bowl

These Receptacles are used in the grinding and processing as well as for the combining of herbs or other substances to make medicine. Traditionally, these Bowls were passed through the line of the Wise Woman, she like the shaman or medicine man responsible for the health of a clan or community. Whereas the the male counterpart is responsible for the spiritual health of the people, the Women were to care and protect the physical Health respectively. These healers were often the called upon by communities for any number of ailments. These Women were educated in plant lore and anatomy, alchemy, and many other trades and skills, and the employment there of, in matters of health and healing, including the duties of midwife.

These well respected elders, passing their skills and knowledge to the next generation, bestowing the Acolyte with everything needed to provide a community with the necessary skillsets, remedies and cordials, when reaching the level of trust and certainty. The elder passed the bowl for her mixing of medicines, tea, and what have on relinquishing her duties and authority in the community to the next generation.

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.

Mano & Metate

At sites dating from the Archaic period (6000 to 500 BC), archaeologists find the first abundant evidence of stone tools designed specifically for the preparation of plant foods. Remarkably, these same tools—or variations of them—are still used today in cultures around the world. Archaeologists working in the American Southwest call these tools “manos” and “metates.”

During the Archaic period, basin metates and one-hand manos were used to grind wild plant foods.

Mano is the Spanish word for “hand,” and it refers to a stone that is held in one or both hands and moved back and forth against a larger stone in order to grind seeds, nuts, and other hard materials. Metate is derived from metatl, a word used by native peoples in central Mexico to describe the larger stone against which the mano is ground.

During the Archaic period, manos were round or oval stones small enough to be held in one hand. They are called “one-hand manos” or, sometimes, “biscuit manos,” because they somewhat resemble large biscuits. The metates were larger and had an oval or oblong depression, which held the foodstuffs or other materials as they were being ground. These larger stone implements are called “basin metates” because of their distinctive shape.

Arctic People

[from Inuktitut inuit the people, pl of inuk a man]

THE TEN INDIAN COMMANDMENTS!

Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect!
Remain close to the Great Spirit
Show great respect for your fellow beings
Work together for the benefit of all mankind!
Give assistance and kindness wherever needed
Do what you know to be right
Look after the well-being of mind and body
Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good
Be truthful and honest at all times
Take full responsibility for your actions…..

FULL MOON PRAYER

We thank the Moon and the stars, who give us their light when the Sun retires….
We thank the Great Spirit, incarnation of all kindness, who directs all things
for the good of Its children.

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Jarow for Onça Vessel series are reclaimed, recycled and repurposed.

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