Catubodua; talisman seal cylinder artifact, Unique creation hand forged in copper & brass.
Natural faceted peridot from Pakistan and rough fragments of chalcopyrites and peridots from Australia on the wings.
The unrolled impression of the cylinder seal reproduces one of the iconographies of the Cult of the Goddess of a Celtic coin [late 2nd and 1 s. BC] depicting a crow/raven devouring a fallen warrior [Birds of prey].
The cylinder can be removed. The necklace is adjustable with a sliding knot on an olive green leather cord without chrome treatment.
The creation is accompanied by its case watercolored by me with the effigy of the divinity.
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Catubodua est une déesse guerrière de la mythologie celtique gauloise, dont le nom signifie corneille (bodua) de combat (catu), Katu-bodwā in Proto-Celtic
It is known to us only by a single inscription, dating from the period Gallo-Roman, in region Rhône-Alpes. She appears to have been a Gallic equivalent of the Irish goddess Badb  who flew over battlefields in the form of a corvid, presumably a hooded crow.
Under this identification, Badb Catha foresaw the fate of warriors before battle.
The central principle of Celtic religion was metempsychosis - the transmigration of the soul and its reincarnation after death.
In the transport of the soul from one world to another Birds ofPrey ” played a central role:
“for these men, death in battle is glorious;
And they consider it a crime to bury the body of such a warrior;
For they believe that the soul ascends to the gods in heaven,
If the body is exposed on the ground to be devoured by birds of prey”.
The Celts believed that this goddess of war, or more precisely the mother goddess in her warrior bearing, appeared to warriors killed in battle in the form of a bird of prey, most often a raven or a crow.
Her presence was not only a symbol of impending death, but also of influencing the outcome of the battle. She inspired either fear or courage in the hearts of warriors_, or in rare cases joined the battle itself.