Penca de Balangandã, historically common in Bahia, Brasil 18/19th century, as jewellery.
Grapes for Osun (prosperity/sweetness) and pomegranates for Yemanjá (fertility/motherhood). The dual birds atop the bracket reflect the sacred avian symbols of Osanyin/the ancestral mothers.
for the record, this woman's daughter, Shoshana, accused her family, including both of her parents, of sexually abusing her in a ritualistic manner for years.
Not long after she escaped in early 2026, the girl was found dead.
You CANNOT have hyperwealth without hyperpoverty. A billionaire exists in one country because child labor exists in another.
Stock markets grow by looting countries raw. That’s the reality of capitalism: the misanthropic greed of the rich is fed by devastating the poor.