http://www.quintanwikswoblog.com ......A CONFEDERATION OF EXPLORATIONS ON LIMINAL STATES..... Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:13:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.quintanwikswoblog.com/2010/02/05/get-thee-before-me-bottle-tree/comment-page-1/#comment-886 anita allen Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:13:48 +0000 http://www.quintanwikswoblog.com/?p=2324#comment-886 I came across your "Mystery tree' while collecting pictures of other peoples bottle trees to show to my northern and out of country friends on line. I just put one up in my yard and they thought it was some cute folk art thing 'I' came up with. All of them well edcuated writers of folk fiction and song. I was appalled they didn't know its African roots, its slave history or its current use, how those who know often tell neighbors its 'folk art' and supposed to bring good luck. But we who build them know how deep the roots of a bottle tree really run. So I am "educating" them. Hope you don't mind if I point them to your site. I loved your tree and I noted the bleach bottle on the top had a sigel on it. can't quite make it out but it looks like one for either a voodon or African deity. Given the colors its also to not just defend (red) against the evil, but actively hold it at bay ( black) or transform ( green) it and send it back to the other side ( white.) Much more than the traditional blue glass bottles do. This is a work for healijng and binding and settling of souls. Something to protect outsiders from the rage of the unsettled dead, as well as to keep the evil which caused it contained and hopefully buried deep. Hopefuly in time that little monument will help send lost souls back across to the other side and peace. I for one am relieved and heartened to see it. Whom ever planted the 'seed' of that 'mystery' bottle tree. Rock on! I came across your “Mystery tree’ while collecting pictures of other peoples bottle trees to show to my northern and out of country friends on line. I just put one up in my yard and they thought it was some cute folk art thing ‘I’ came up with. All of them well edcuated writers of folk fiction and song. I was appalled they didn’t know its African roots, its slave history or its current use, how those who know often tell neighbors its ‘folk art’ and supposed to bring good luck. But we who build them know how deep the roots of a bottle tree really run. So I am “educating” them. Hope you don’t mind if I point them to your site. I loved your tree and I noted the bleach bottle on the top had a sigel on it. can’t quite make it out but it looks like one for either a voodon or African deity. Given the colors its also to not just defend (red) against the evil, but actively hold it at bay ( black) or transform ( green) it and send it back to the other side ( white.) Much more than the traditional blue glass bottles do. This is a work for healijng and binding and settling of souls. Something to protect outsiders from the rage of the unsettled dead, as well as to keep the evil which caused it contained and hopefully buried deep. Hopefuly in time that little monument will help send lost souls back across to the other side and peace. I for one am relieved and heartened to see it. Whom ever planted the ‘seed’ of that ‘mystery’ bottle tree. Rock on!

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