Sublime

Devipuram—“The Goddess’s Abode”—the temple complex that Guruji had spent more than three decades building up from almost nothing in the rural wilds of eastern India.

“So the Sumerians worshipped Enki, and the Babylonians, who came after the Sumerians, worshipped Marduk, his son.” “Yes, sir. And whenever Marduk got stuck, he would ask his father Enki for help.

In contrast, paganism among the sedentary societies of Arabia had developed from its earlier and simpler manifestations into a complex form of neo-animism, providing a host of divine and semi-divine intermediaries who stood between the creator god and his creation. This creator god was called Allah, which is not a proper name but a contraction of t

diapir.

In the shamanic worldview, the first dimension would have less to do with the terrestrial, material Earth, the nature aspect of the Goddess, and more to do with the depths of the Underworld, the realm of the ancestors and the Dark Goddess, whose actions transform us.