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Size: 14" Color: Purple and Lavender Completely hand-crafted with quality materials Made of 5/8" pile curly Mohair Amethyst glass eyes with upper and lower eyelids Hand-stitched Pearl cotton nose and mouth Hand-sculpted leather/mohair paw and foot pads Stuffed with polyester fiberfill and fully jointed with bolts, lock nuts, hardboard discs and cotter pins in the neck and arms. Flexible bent arms with Loc-Line. A pouch of BBs is added for weight.

In Greek mythology Iris is a goddess of the rainbow and a messenger of the gods. There is no good explanation as to why Iris, a goddess, is a messenger. Nor is there any reason why there should be a goddess of the rainbow. One would expect that the rainbow might be better associated with the sky god. It may be that it is the ability of light to carry a message that makes Iris a messenger. But this would suggest that the ancient Greeks believed light is a substance that moves through space to carry messages and this seems at odds with contemporary beliefs.