women's past, present, future

Day 13 - Gnowee

Goddess of the sun and lighted skies in the mythology of Australian aborigines. A mortal woman living in dark, gloomy centuries in a world not lit by stars or fire. Only cold and hunger persecuted her and her children, and, having lost them once, she ascended to heaven to be able to find them - illuminating the heavens with her fire, watching attentively people in need, giving them warmth and food as she could. She is not so much the personification of mercy, but the all-embracing maternal love, crushing with its heat. Gnowee is also belligerent in her own way; she is not alien to the fury and burning despair of a woman who has lost her most precious loved ones.

Gnowee has olive skin, as dark as ashes, illuminated from within by fire. Restless, coarse hair cascades onto her shoulders, her eyes are hot, hungry, like the flame itself, but not devoid of compassion, ebony, hot-blooded lips curved in a stubborn, mocking smile. Her eyes are serpentine, sparkling with sparks of coal, illuminating dark, fluffy eyelashes with golden tones. Gnowee is free from clothes, her body is a hidden dark sky, the signs of the sun glistening with molten gold stars on her skin. Passionate, deceitfully soft in its arms, a boa constrictor is a red-hot magma flowing down her shoulders, adoringly basking in their mother’s arms, submissive to her touch, but seductively dangerous for a person vulnerable to fire.

Milky Way at Gilgering, Western Australia