A nude, young, contemplative-looking woman with a coppery complexion kneels on her left knee and balances herself with her right foot, which seems to rest on the surface of a dark, still pool. She pours water from two drinking horns, gold in her right hand, silver in her left. From the left she pours the water on the land, where it divides into five streams, which run off in different directions. From the right she pours the water slowly into the pool, where it produces circular ripples.
On a circular disk a brilliant eight-pointed star, blazes low on the horizon; the vertical and horizontal rays are foremost and yellow; the diagonal rays are behind and red. Seven smaller pentagrams in disks (colored violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, clockwise from lower left) shine around it in the early morning sky; one is aligned with each point of the large star, except with the lowest point.
In the background we see the back side of the tholos (beehive mound), on which new grass grows. A white cypress tree grows on the right, close behind the woman, from the roots of which a spring feeds the pool; on the left, in the distance, a dark cypress grows beside another pool. Behind the white cypress is the pink dawn sky; elsewhere, especially behind the darkcypress, the sky is light blue, and an old crescent moon is barely visible. A lion-headed bird is perched in the white cypress, and a serpent (red and black banded, its head half black and red) is entwined three and one-half times around the trunk of the dark cypress.
Last modified: Thurs Nov 19, 1998 / Jeremiah Genest