On our mantle

A blue speaker with a happy blue dolphin perched atop
Five candles
Two intricately sculpted by dripping wax
A sacred rattle
A crouching leopard 
A flute woman giving birth
A temple block
A drum key and wrench next to a pile of foreign coins
Kuan Yin at the center 
She sits next to a tree of feathers planted in a little clay pot
A round ocean drum hangs from L 
A square drum hangs from O
A resonating gourd from V
A feather and a puppet hang from E
Deities abound:
Ganesh...
Krishna and Rhada lean into one another next to a blue orb
Saraswati
A Mayan god
Jagged crystals and smooth stones 
Sculpting body stones
A pipe, a wooden drummer
Two shiny warbling birds thirsty for water and breath
Three elephants (if you include Ganesh)
A lantern
Kashaka balls in a clay vessel
A diminutive Guanyin rests by the V
The archangel, Michael peers through the O
Three cycles of twelve - sacred sound geometry art 
Two of them framed in gold
One leaning on the L
Bells
Two square wooden boxes 
One with a bearded man carved on the lid
Wire
A gold frog
Half-burned Palo Santo in a tarnished leaf
A cast heart decorated with smalls stones that rattles when you hold it

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