Babba Mária. Material: black walnut. Dimensions: 95 × 40 × 15 cm.
Guardian of the Seed. Materials: white and red marble, bronze. Dimensions: 35 × 30 × 8 cm.
Our ancient religion was initially matriarchal and centred on the Mother of God. The ancestral goddess and Blessed Lady of the Hungarians is the Sumerian Bau, or Babba.
BABBA — THE BLESSED LADY, later THE VIRGIN MARY, who entered our religion with Christianity. Some 5,500 years before the Virgin Mary, the Hungarians revered Babba, the Mother of God. From the earliest times, the Virgin of Light, the Mother of God, is present in the history we describe as Sumerian–Hungarian. Babba Mária, the Virgin of Light, can be seen at Csíksomlyó, one of the best-known and most beautiful Pentecost pilgrimage shrines of our time.
The runic signs are inscribed within a mandorla. Babba Mária is represented by an element symbolising the Holy Trinity: cosmic fire at the top (the Father), cosmic light (the Son), and cosmic water (the Mother).
The message inscribed within the sculpture’s closed system offers the viewer an opportunity for meditation. The idea of Babba Mária as the seed-ripening, receptive and life-protecting Mother of God is organically connected to Guardian of the Seed. The latter complements it, evoking wholeness and joining the two into a single thought. The cool white marble is slightly dissonant beside the warmth of wood, yet the interweaving and further development of the symbols unite the two sculptures.
The bronze double cross in Guardian of the Seed denotes One, the Creator, in our ancient script. Creation is set in motion at the centre of the circle through the Word. The inward-turning spiral, derived from the circle or sphere, becomes a tulip as it unfolds, concealing within it the seed: life.