A Bajoran mandala
A Bajoran mandala was a religious object of Bajoran origin.
A 6th century Bajoran mandala was in an Andorian chest auctioned off by Quark in 2373. A Vedek was interested in the chest, but dropped out of the bidding at 2 bars of latinum. Jake Sisko and Nog were also interested in the chest, as they wanted to obtain a Human baseball card that was inside for Jake's father, but it was eventually bought by Elias Giger for 10 bars. When Giger later disappeared, Jake and Nog saw the Vedek talking to Kai Winn, leading them to the mistaken conclusion that Winn had captured Giger in order to obtain the mandala. (DS9: "In the Cards")
Christie's put a Bajoran mandala up for auction in 2006. [1]. As per the essay: “Scenic artist Doug Drexler was responsible for the Bajoran graphic on this piece. The center features the Bajoran symbol, but Drexler made the outer portion by taking a digital drawing of the S.S. Botany Bay from "Space Seed" in Star Trek: The Original Series, then making 40 copies, rotating and overlapping each copy slightly. The result was this Bajoran mandala.”
Leeta's unseen prayer mandala ("Call to Arms") was presumably also Bajoran.
External link[]
- Bajoran mandala at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works