WHEN GOD WAS A SERPENT - VISION BOOK THREE

THE LIBRARY OF

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VOLUME THREE

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WHEN GOD WAS A SERPENT comes primarily from a series of paintings Cosmogenesis that visited me in early 2024. At present there are fifty paintings in the Cosmogenesis series. Created on giant sheets of watercolour paper using graphite powder, water, metal pigment dust, inks + Energy.

SHE-the-Serpent has revealed Herself many times through my five decade painting practice. In this series SHE flows with cosmological intelligence through the infinite prismatic structure of DNA spirals continuously unfurling through the ink and water radiating the energy of the beginning of creation.

WHEN GOD WAS A SERPENT

The Great Mother

is shedding Her skins.

Skin by skin,

Fold,

by haggard fold.

She is shucking off the contorted,

distorted,

narrowed-down versions of Herself.

Sloughing off the mean,

thin-as-waxed-paper projections upon HER glorious body which attempt to lame and truncate HER unbound magnificence.

She roils and heaves.

The land quakes, great trees split, glaciers melt, the oceans swell...

Until

SHE glistens renewed.

We are in waiting on the slate-sharp edge

of a precipice

as SHE reveals Herself,

scale,

by luminous

scale.

It won't be pretty.

Alicia Enciso Litschi writes with deep reverence for the Mexican Goddess - Coatlicue - She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt.

"Coatlicue is one of the primordial mothers. She goes all the way back to the beginning of this world, when it is said she was seen sweeping up the dust on the top of Coatepec, Serpent Mound.

Coatlicue is said to be the Mother of All the Gods. Mother of Life and Death. She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt. Many say she is the ancient rootstock out of which arose Tonantzin, Earth Mother, and all the mothers thereafter, including Corn Mother...

COATLICUE: Housed in Mexico’s Museo Nacional - this 9-foot-tall stone monument of She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt towers over all who encounter Her.

I catch a glimpse of Coatlicue when I am 17 years old, standing wide-eyed in the middle of Mexico’s Museo Nacional, staring at the towering 9-foot-tall stone monument of She-of-the-Serpent-Skirt. Her statue depicts her decapitated with two rattlesnake heads emerging from her neck where her head once was. She is adorned with a necklace of alternating human hearts and hands. Her skirt is made of jade and interwoven with rattlesnakes. There is a human skull at her waist, and she has the talons of an Eagle.

Gazing up at her, I feel an unmistakable pulsing in my feet. "

You can her full story on Substack here.