St. Jo B's INFO Art- Hemp & Goddess
LITTLE WICKER Cornucopia
WITH RASTA BUDS
4" wicker woven cornucopia basketholding the most bountiful plant - cannabis hemp
green, yellow and red cones holding the silver sparkles of THC
The Cornucopia is a basket made to collect harvested produce in the field.
It was used as a symbol of bounty.
The Rasta worship and Symbols
Like any spirituality, Rasta has its
own traditions and symbols:
The Ganja, "healing of the nations', also known as hemp, cannabis, or marijuana, is used as a holy sacrament by Rastas in many ways.
The legend says that the Holy Herb was found growing on the King Solomon's grave.
Use of herb has this source in the Bible:
"Thou shalt eat the herb of the field." (Genesis 3:18), "eat every herb of the land." (Exodus 10:12),
"Better is a dinner of herb where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred there with." (Proverbs 15:17),
"He causeth the grass for the cattle, and herb for the service of man." (Psalms 104:14)
Rastas smoke herb to meditate, symbolizing the burning bush, and for his curative properties (ie asthma). Herb can be eaten or infused.
His seeds are very nutrious.
Hemp is also used to make clothes, shoes and ropes.
Red, Yellow, and Green
are the colors of the Rasta flag.
The colors symbolize the destruction
of the African people and their land.
The red is the blood of people taken into slavery
the yellow is the stolen mineral resources
the green is the lost lands of vast green forests
The Rasta flag can also be seen during coptic celebration in the motherland Ethiopia.
These colors are too on the senegalese flag, from where thousand of slaves were deported, transiting by the Goree island.
