Kiln god goes outside of the kiln on top or near the door (door guard?).
You want it where it is not in the flame/rain(outdoor gas/wood)/direct heat
but you want it visible - you treat the kiln god as you want you pots to be
treated. But hell Marianne - you're talking to someone that used to walk
around the chair and tell the computer what a good girl she was when she had
inexplicable program crashes...

"Bubbles/Marianne" wrote in message
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Hi Donna!

"D Kat" wrote in message
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I really, really don't think having a pot blow up in the kiln is in anyway
a good sacrifice - in fact, I would consider it an insult to the gods. I
piece of cookie I could understand...

Yeah - I think you are right about exploding pots. I wasn't thinking very
straight.

I have seen every sort of kiln god you can imagine. One of the studio's
is a fat naked lady with a big grin on her face. Mine is a dragon - a
rather tiny one but I like him.

Do you put the god in the kiln or on top of it during firing?

I have never seen or heard of a sacrifice being made other than pouring a
bit of plum wine on the god during a group potluck firing and I'm not all
that sure the pour was intended as a sacrifice...

Hehe! A splash of alchohol is more a baptism than a sacrifice, maybe.

You might find this fun -

http://www.skutt.com/peepholeplug/pe...ggallery2.html

That was really cool! Sadly, I now have a kiln where I am not supposed to
close the peep-hole! Still .- if the god can be on the outside of the
kiln, I could make one that sits on the edge of the lid.

Now to get some ideas! :-D

Marianne