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Possession, Intoxification and Ecstasy
Possession, Intoxification and Ecstasy

Painting elements:
Voodoo, the Horse ridden by Lwa, Grapes and Wine of Dionysus, Bacchanalian, Bacchus, Broom ridden by witches, finding the spirit via Shamanism, Native American Hook ceremony, Catholic Heart of fire, ecstasy, Eucharist, ingesting the flesh of Jesus, Peyote, Soma Hindi, Mediterranean, Sumerian, Eastern European Mushroom mystery religions, Vever for Papa Legba, cross roads and entry to the otherworld

Roof Panel Elements: Snakes and Sacred Heart. Healing, Creation, sensuality and Ecstasy

Roof 1: Snakes as givers of life, creation myth, snakes appearing after the first rain, fertility, emergence from the cosmic eggs, the egg of Danballah, Agep who protected Horus' wheat, Actez, Incan and Mayan Snake gods, Snake Heros, Norse Sirona myth, snake around the earth, Hindu, the 1000 coils of Adi Sesha, healing, Asclepus Wand (Moses) Look upon the snake and be healed, Caduceus (Roman / Greek), Lakshmana and Kundalini, the great spiral of fertility, sexual energy as a creative force, reincaration shedding skins, native american, lightening, rain, Ninlil, cunning, shiny ones, Ningishida chinese myths of snakes, Christian Old Testament Numbers 21: 9 "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived."

Roof 2: Sacred Heart, Vever for Erzulie, St Theresa's Ecstatic Love of God, Flaming Heart, Catholic. Pure possession and devotio. The Latin Reads, "cuius regio eius religio" whose the region, his the religion

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