Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols carved boot very sound and sturdy and

very sound and sturdy and stable

and then a pile of beaded glass strawberries one top and all around the base

Plus two men framing it

who apparently appeared to Juan Diego on Tepeyac Hill

which is fairly heavy for its size

Curious Old Carved Green Marble Obelisk with Various Symbols carved boot very sound and sturdy andThings like this intrigue and delight me with their primitiveness and earnestness and sense of purposefulness that seems now rather mysteriousness and unknowable. Found in Maine, certainly it was a folk creation maybe, with heart dangling on what might be taken for a chain on one side, a valentine of sorts, or maybe an offering to the gods in hopes of love! What's going on the other sides is a bit less clear, but looks rather like hieroglyphics, and