Quality crafted Santa Muerte Altar Staff. High quality PVC skull is mounted on bamboo composite shaft. Approximately 56-60" in length. Skull measures 4 inches tall, 3.5 inches wide, and 5 inches long. * Sold as unconsecrated. *

Staff is in three segments for shipping/storing purposes and can be used full length or sceptor length. Non-segmented full staff may be requested prior to ordering. Keep in mind, shipping is roughly $75+ due to dimensional weight calculations by USPS. Free shipping does not apply in this instance. Please contact us for a quoate prior to ordering.

Please Note: Images are from past commissions based on customer specific requests, and are soley for visual reference only. The appearance of each individual staff is based upon your request (s), making each one unique in it's own way.
 
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Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death, is a personification of Death honored primarily as a Catholic folk saint, despite condemnation by the Catholic Church and Evangelical pastors. Her following has become increasingly prominent since the turn of the 21st century.
 
Santa Muerte veneration was first reported in Mexico by American anthropologists in the 1940s among the working-class neighborhoods in Mexico City, followed by widespread popular attention in Mexico in August 1998, when police arrested notorious gangster Daniel Arizmendi López and discovered a Palo-mixed shrine dedicated to the saint in his home. A discovery inspiring the common association between Santa Muerte, violence, and criminality in Mexican popular consciousness.
 
Worship of Santa Muerte became most public, after Enriqueta Romero founded her famous Mexico City shrine in 2001. Since 2001, there has been "meteoric growth" in Santa Muerte belief, largely due to her reputation for performing miracles, and has grown over the past two decades to an estimated 12 million followers who are concentrated in Mexico, Central America, and the United States with a smaller contingent of followers in Canada and Europe. Santa Muerte has two similar male counterparts in Latin America, the skeletal folk saints San La Muerte of Argentina and Paraguay and Rey Pascual of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico. According to R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of religious studies, Santa Muerte is at the center of the single fastest-growing new religious movement in the world, becoming Mexico's second-most popular saint, after St. Jude, and to rival the country's "national patroness", the Virgin of Guadalupe.
 
Although there are other death saints in Latin America, such as San La Muerte, Santa Muerte is the only female saint of death in the Americas.
 
Santa Muerte represents a feminine form of the power of death, in that it is a force for positive change, growth, and renewal - birth, growth, life and rebirth. It is not commonly recognized that life, death and rebirth are intrinsically linked.
 
"The power of death has always been recognized as an egalitarian one; it knocks equally at the gates of kings as it does at the doors of the poor". Any person can work with her as Santa Muerte accepts everyone.
 
Santa Muerte is often represented wearing robes of varying colors. These represent her different spheres of influence. The most popular model recognizes a rainbow of seven different colors, although there is an older, more traditional model of working with Santa Muerte that recognizes only three. The seven colors and their general spheres of influence are:
 
White: Purification, protection, restoration, new beginnings
Blue: Social relationships, practical learning and wisdom, family matters
Gold: Luck, money and wealth acquisition, gambling, healing
Red: Love, lust, sex, strength, martial force
Purple: Psychic insight, magical power, noble authority
Green: Justice, balance, restitution, legal matters, behavior problems
Black: Spell, curse, and hex-breaking; aggressive protection; communication with spirits, particularly those of the dead

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