This South American potter represents Aruru (aka Ninhursag). The first potter was the sumerian-babylonian godness Aruru the great, the almighty gentle mother Goddess of the earth and birth, who created humanity from clay. She molded mankind out of clay using a god as pattern and breathed life into him with her divine exhalation.
She created the first man out of clay (adamah = the female soil). She confected seven mother-vessels for women and seven for men. « The shapes of humanity are formed by Aruru » as say the Assyrians.
The biblic story of god creating Adam out of clay is just a plagiat of ancient texts with a masculinisation of the Godess. The mesopotamian idea that flesh equals clay originates from the matriarchy of earliest times when all pottery was women's work. The god of the bible couldn't bear – so he copied the second-best method of creation by moulding his first man out of clay like the Godess had done bevor him.
Having talked to a few potters and would-be potters, I know that it is a craft that looks easy but requires great skill and patience. For me, it is the difference between having an innovative idea and and actually making it in a concrete reality. Often with the “three” cards there is a suggestion of cooperation with others, but in this image (other than the babe on her back), there is no other people. I think the collaboration here has to do with the three “Hs” – head, heart and hands. From the Daughters of the Moon, the three of Pentacles:
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