500 year old Brugmansia flower jewelry ??understand the brug

OH...I'm always seeing brugs... perhaps driving along the classic shapes seem to stand out...once one is aware of them... trumpeted flowers..wavey edgeing.. pendelous stature..
Well.. most are aware of the dispersion of the Brugs from their beginnings in elevated regions of Central and South America.. and the long use of thesee in native cultures there..Shamen had developed a complete cure bag based on our Brugs... their importance there and in obvious similar magnetic qualities we enjoy... color / shape / and fragerance no doubt played a big part in their being revered.. and used..
OK.. to go onto the reason of this post.. 500 year old brug jewelry.. yesterday there was put on display a sacrifical 15 year old girl.. a maiden left high up in the Andes in Argentina.. my an Inca ceremony ...some 500 years ago.. pictures were included in this article of her ..dressed in finery.. given corn alcohol to put her to sleep... a bit of coca..for the high mountain trek..and I'd wager a bit of a Brug .. concoction then or before .. around her neck was a bunch of charms and jewelry... one of which looks to me to be a brug flower... a wavey edged trumpet shaped silver item... here's the picture ... what do you think... Gordon
OHand the link to the srticle... it's an AOL item so I don't know the accessibility of it to the general population.. but I bet a google search would pull up a similar article..
http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/incan-mummy-displayed-for-first-time/20070907155209990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001

This message was edited Sep 8, 2007 1:02 PM

Wow... a very controversial subject indeed. Interesting. I wonder about the charms on her neck... I see a brug. :)

Thank you for sharing that Gordon, that is amazing.

Oh thanks Joyce/Brenda... I thought it looked like a brug flower ... but I can never be sure if I'm reading too much into things... but considering it's importance and prevelance there.. I thought it was what I was seeing... Gordon

The wavey edge sure makes it look like a brugmansia flower to me. It actually even appears to have a bit of calyx at the top, tho that is probably how it is tied to the necklace.

A beautiful young girl's life traded for the prospect of a field of corn...

This message was edited Sep 8, 2007 6:58 PM

Well, Gordon, I'm such a hopeless brug addict.. I choose to see brug beauty in as many things as I can! (reading into things my eyes see) :) My opinion is only that, my opinion.. I'd like to think it's a brug and that they saw it as a flower worthy of adornment for an event they held sacred, even though it doesn't make sense to us in these modern times.
Yeah Liz, I hear ya.. She looks peaceful, though that is no consolation for what she must have had to endure.
I'm torn on the display issue, I'm not sure how I feel about that.
This is a good thread Gordon, I appreciate the opportunity.

This is amazing!
darma

WOW!!! Thanks for sharing.