{"title":"Cultural merch","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"spirit-snake-jingdezhen-ceramic-ornament","title":"Spirit Snake - Jingdezhen Ceramic Ornament","description":"\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is no older symbol than the snake. East and West have both read it two ways at once — guardian and destroyer, light and shadow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn ancient Egypt the cobra rose from the pharaoh's crown as the uraeus, a guardian spirit of royal power: mysterious, watchful, full of force. In China she is the Spirit Snake\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 宋体;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"\u003e— the numinous serpent, the wisdom coiled at the root of things, the quiet promise that what ends can begin again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis piece holds that duality in porcelain. A rose-pink serpent coils up and around, one unbroken line — protector and warning in the same body, beauty and danger wound together, exactly as the old stories tell it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ZenTalisman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67901082206443,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/0537\/0603\/files\/1_ad9c00fc-4077-42ee-92a9-fba9c0c424cd.jpg?v=1791448880"},{"product_id":"silk-road-spirit-snake-plush-rug","title":"Silk Road Spirit Snake Plush Rug","description":"\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn a night in ancient Greece, the dark hung over the world like a black curtain. Young Dionysus, god of wine, was stumbling home from a feast, a wine jug in his hand, wine spilling onto the ground with every loose step. The sweetness drifted through the night and woke a spirit snake nearby.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt slid out slowly — huge, but graceful. It meant to quietly steal the jug from the half-dreaming god, but it got impatient, and knocked the jug right over. The wine ran out across the earth. And that, they say, is how the world got its revelry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCenturies later, that same jug and that same snake travelled east along the Silk Road, where a cup from the Mediterranean met an Eastern serpent — and settled into this rug.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ZenTalisman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67901100589291,"sku":null,"price":79.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/0537\/0603\/files\/5_e9408523-3343-47bb-ab5b-c9492b72c216.jpg?v=1791449555"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0846\/0537\/0603\/collections\/5_e9408523-3343-47bb-ab5b-c9492b72c216.jpg?v=1791450330","url":"https:\/\/zentalisman.shop\/collections\/cultural-merch.oembed","provider":"ZenTalisman","version":"1.0","type":"link"}