Gnostic Yoni

Magdalene

Mary Magdalene was written as the prostitute that threw herself at Jesus's feet to beg for forgiveness. Although over the centuries new scriptures have been found from the apostles of Jesus Christ. One was found claiming to be the gospel of Mary, found in the Berlin Gnostic Codex. From this there have been speculations and theories of the true identity of Mary. Could she have been on the apostles and even Jesus's wife. Leading to the idea that the holy grail was not a cup but Mary's womb.

Demeter

Demeter was the Greek goddess of harvest and grain. She is a warm summer figure that presides over the fertility of the earth. Although Hades stole her beloved daughter from her and keeps her as his wife during the winter months but allows her to be with Demeter during the summer. Due to the love Demeter has for her child, she feels a great loss when she must let her go during the later months and with her sadness comes death, She has the ability to encourage life but to also take it away.

Thecla

Laylah

Laylah was a Violinist born from Irish immigrants in Australia in the late 1800s. Her real name was Leila Waddell. She toured Europe with a Gypsy concert party and met the famous Occultist Aleister Crowley in London and soon became one of his muses and scarlet woman (A goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema). Aleister Crowley gave Leila Waddell her nick name Laylah and referred to her as the 'Divine Whore’, ‘Mother of Heaven’, ‘Sister Cybele’, Scarlet Woman’ and ‘Whore of Babylon’.

The nun Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc was a woman born to a present family in Domrémy in France in the 13th century. She had visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret and Saint Catherine who instructed her to fight for Charles VII. The painting shows a young girl staring into the distance with her hair falling from her head. The symbolism of her hair being cut is the loss of her femininity in order to abide her god’s wishes.

Mary

Beatrice Inferno

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the 14th Century. It a poem about Dante himself traveling through the many layers of Hell (inferno), Purgatory and Paradise. Dante loved the same woman since he was a boy, her name was Beatrice Portinari. Sadly they were both engaged to suitors of their family's choosing and so Dante often wrote Beatrice into his story's. In The Divine Comedy she sent Virgil to escort him through Hell. She then as an angel guides him though heaven.

Circle of Venus

The main focal point is a young female standing in between the other two. She represents the maiden, the Venus de Milo or Aphrodite. To the left of the maiden is the mother. She is pregnant and radiating warmth and life. The last woman in the painting is the crone. She is old and withered. Her hair is white and her body slumped. She represents the last stage of woman hood and the old wisdom in which she has. The painting is about the different stages of the life we live physically and mentally.

Apsara and Lampade