Birds

Death came for you

Leaving you a corpse on the dry plain

in the hot sun

Birds see you from far above and descend

Their beaks tearing away your flesh

They are here to liberate you from the earth

and take your body up into the sky

Dissolve.. let go of form…

Fly up with the birds

into the bright sky


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for Women's History MonthWomen, Transsexualism and Transgender in Traditional Siberian Shamanism ( Read more... )

Göbekli Tepe, in southeastern Turkey, is a site now being excavated that bridges the Paleolithic and the Neolithic. Dating back to 11,500 BCE, it is the earliest known candidate for the origins of both agriculture and institutional religion. It contains as many as 20 stone circles composed of sculpted megaliths of 10 to 50 tons each.

Göbek is ( Read more... )

The Russian artist Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) traveled in the Himalayas and Central Asia, and with his wife Helena founded the Agni Yoga Society based on occult interpretations of Central Asian mythic geography. I've always admired his use of light and color in painting mountainous scenery.

In this 1924 painting, Vedushchaya 'She Who Leads' or ' ( Read more... )

The modern technology of craniotomy, a surgical operation which is ( Read more... )

Comparison of root words in the Uzbek language points back to a very ancient nexus between the Moon, consciousness, and women's shamanism.


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Ural-Altaic Music Appreciation Series vol. 1

Värttinä is an unusual folk-rock band from Finland. I'd like you to know them. They really blow my musical mind. They are fronted by three women singers. (They used to have four women.) Their sound has been described as "wall of estrogen." I find their music to have high energy, asymmetric meters, and ( Read more... )