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Lady Orange

She is real and if you drove by her you’d say, ‘Look, that’s her! Lady Orange.’ From her orange hair down to the little orange shoes she wears there is no mistake, Lady Orange is in town. She once told me that she was happy not to know in advance the time of her death. I think that speaks for a lot of people.
Plastic Immortality
Through the 1970’s I was living at the Oma Ling Pa Temple in Guatemala. I was intently studying art, history, religion and basically living a good healthy life style. Living in Guatemala I also had a chance to research first hand the ancient Mayan civilization, its lifestyle, religion and Pyramids. In the midst of all this I was introduced to a product that Oma Zigenfuss invented some 25 year earlier, ‘Plastone.’ Plastone is currently used to cover bananas in the hole of cargo ships as they are shipped from Africa and South America. Plastone removes excess moisture and prevents the bananas from ripening. Plastone is a compound of cellulose, clays and secret binders used at our temple. When it dries it becomes hard. I was soon to learn that it had a further use. It could be used to mummify bodies. If you totally covered a body with Plastone it allows the moistures in the body to evaporate due to its pores nature. In about six to eight weeks you can crack open the shell of the Plastone and you have a nice leather dried mummy. One can actually pose the body before covering it with Plastone. For example, in place of head stones at a cemetery one could position their loved one standing with open waiting arms for all.
Sleeping Beauty of Capuchin
It is with the eye of one professional looking at the work of another artisan that I was drawn to the photo of a young Italian girl, Rosalia Lombardo. When in Italy visit the Crypt of Palermo and you will find their secret to their embalming process. It is visible toward the end of your tour as one of the "strainer rooms" used to desiccate the bodies is open to view. The process is mainly due to the conditions in the crypt itself that naturally wicks away bodily fluids. However the bodies are then embalmed using vinegar before being dressed according to family requests. This process was halted in 1871 with Brother Riccardo being the last of 8,000 buried under these conditions. However in the small chapel at the end of the tour houses the very last member of the crypt, a child that has come to be known as "sleeping beauty". Rosalia Lombardo died in 1920 and thanks to a further secret chemical embalming process she looks as if she is only sleeping. Encased in a glass-covered coffin, it is hard to believe that this little girl died 87 years ago. She looks like she could open her eyes at any moment.
Rosalia Lombardo-The Capuchin Crypt of Palermo




























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