Cosmos Zenu Pendant Gold Plated This earrings unique in style

This earrings unique in style have a rather quaint source of inspiration

Quimbaya and Zenu archaeological areas are all represented here

This Magnificent golden piece is composed of at least 12 different kind of beads

Symmetry and balance in the shapes and designs of Pre-Columbian objects expressed the quest to find equilibrium in the properties and forces of the cosmos

others are just ornamental parts of ritual attire such as buttons

Cosmos Zenu Pendant Gold Plated This earrings unique in styleColombian metalworking societies held the view that the cosmos was made of various superimposed, connected and independent levels of worlds, each with it's own individual properties and beings. The universe consisted of one material visible dimension, and another which was spiritual, powerful, and hidden to most people. Birds were creatures of a higher plane, and in this Zenu inspired gold plated pendant, three of them perch high above a human figure.