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The Cauldron Black x Dr Alexander Cummins 2025 Collaboration

 

Persephone – Goddess of the underworld, of new life & spring, and queen of the dead

 

These beaded ritual loops – dedicated to dread Proserpine in her aspect as Queen of Hell – are composed in rich and delicately faceted garnets, the copper alloys of queenship, bone-carved skulls, and deeply sanguine pomegranate glass beads. These chthonic materials are ritually strung in sixes to mark the aril-seeds our blessed goddess consumed and the six months of the year she rules the underworld.

 

These circlets may be worn as a necklace to bear the mantle and blessings of radiant and luminous Persephone; benevolent and mighty goddess of the underworld, lovely-tressed daughter of Demeter, much-honoured spouse of Plouton, and revered and almighty mother of the Erinyes.

These ritual loops may be wrapped in dedication and veneration about icons, statuary, ritual tools, and shrine objects. They may also be laid upon the rich dark earth to demarcate hallowing spaces in which to divine, empower materia and instruments, enact conjuration of all that lies beneath the earth, and to lay offerings and gracious sacrifice to this brilliant and horned queen of the nether-world who commands the very gates of Hades.

 

"Daughter of Zeus, almighty and divine, come blessed queen, and to these rites incline:

Only-begotten, Plouton's honor'd wife, O venereable goddess, source of life:

'Tis thine in earth's profundities to dwell, fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell:

Zeus' holy offspring, of a beauteous mien, fatal Praxidike, with lovely locks, infernal queen:

Source of the Eumenides, whose blest frame proceeds from Zeus' ineffable and secret seeds:

Mother of Eubouleos, sonorous, divine, and many-form'd, the parent of the vine:

The dancing Horai attend thee, essence bright, all-ruling virgin, bearing heav'nly light:

Illustrious, horned, of a bounteous mind, alone desir'd by those of mortal kind.

O, vernal queen, whom grassy plains delight, sweet to smell, and pleasing to the sight:

Whose holy form in budding fruits we view, Earth's vig'rous offspring of a various hue:

Espous'd in Autumn: life and death alone to wretched mortals from thy power is known:

For thine the task according to thy will, life to produce, and all that lives to kill.

Hear, blessed Goddess, send a rich increase of various fruit from earth, with lovely Peace;

 Send Health with gentle hand, and crown my life with blest abundance, free from noisy strife;

Last in extreme old age prey of Death, dismiss we willing to the realms beneath,

To thy fair palace, and the blissful plains where happy spirits dwell, and Plouton reigns.


 

Circlets are now available for pre-order, and only 13 are available. Orders will close on Friday, October 17th. Circlets will ship on November 8th, 2025, once they have completed their moon cycle at the feet of Persephone. These will be charged with holy waters, oils, incense, and chants over a 21-day period.

 

Circlets measure approx. 41" total length/20.5" diameter - they will hang at approx. the top of the ribcage.

 

*Hekate pottery bowl created by Matthew Venus of Spiritus Arcanum, not for sale*

Persephone's Descent Circlet

$250.00Price
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