Kalunga Waistbead Strand 

“... you were made in the image of she who walks the line between the veil... there is no power like a woman who drinks the waters of both life and death ... “ D. Marshall 

Kalunga is the mother of waters. She is the Congolese Goddess who travels between both worlds convening with the ancestors and the living... 

In the times of trans-Atlantic slave route it was thought that to follow water in the direction of the sunset (West) was to be led to the ancestral realm, to death. The trip to the West was considered a certain demise. 

Kalunga brings beginnings in places where endings are usually found. In the dark, salty billows of the sea she creates fertility and abundance. Where others only know destruction she is everlasting life. 

Let this waist bead strand made of Peruvian blue glass beads remind you of your resilience. You have the strength to surpass that which others would’ve never walked away from. You have a unique divine understanding of the balance within transformation - life, death, rebirth. 

You own the power to end the versions of you that no longer serve while creating a new and unique “you.”