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Gallery:   Mythos
Year:   1999
Original Media:   ink and watercolor on archival paper
Description:   'Messiah Stone' is drawn from several legends. It represents the stone at the center of the world known in Hebrew as 'even ha-sh'tiyah', a great gemstone engraved with the name of the Messiah. Formed on the first day of Creation, it served to cap the lower waters, called Tohu and Bohu when God separated them from the upper waters and was removed only once during the time of Noah to permit the Flood. The stone allegedly bears water erosion marks! Another tale relates that the stone floated with the wind until the Altar of Sacrifice was built on Mt. Zion. There it came to rest as a support for the Altar. A passage in the Book of Isaiah calls it the Foundation Stone because the world was founded on it. "Thus saith the Lord, 'Behold I lay in Zion a foundation for a stone...a costly corner-stone of sure foundation." The Akedah, or Abraham's near-sacrifice of Isaac is said to have taken place upon it. In Arabic, the stone is called es-Sakhra and is the centerpiece within the Dome of the Rock, Kubbat es-Sakhra. An Arab tradition also states that all the fresh waters of the world have their origin under this rock. In this drawing, representatives of several major faiths hold each other for support as they balance upon a whirling, omniscient 'messiah stone' loosed from its moorings and rising above the sands of the 'center of the world'. It is my vision for the millennium. Perhaps the memory of its removal in ancient times will once again 'flood or obscure' evil, permitting world peace before the end of days.

 DescriptionSizePrice
Gicleé prints on archival paper
14.00 x 11.00  
300.00
The Messiah Stone


@ Ilene Winn-Lederer 1999