The Goddess

I sit with books spread out around me, open to the pages dedicated to the great goddesses of Anatolia – modern Türkiye. In 2022, the name was updated from Turkey to Türkiye. Türkiye is one of the oldest civilizations in the world. Long before the arrival of Alexander the Great and Romans, the peoples of…

I remember being introduced to the goddesses of Sumer for the very first time, sitting in a packed lecture hall. I can remember looking around at the bunch of lethargic students who wanted to be anywhere but a Mythology lecture, feeling much the same. It might have been an afternoon class, straight after lunch when…

I first went to India in my twenties. I stayed for six months, four of that studying hatha yoga on the shores of the Ganges in Varanassi with Sunil with the infectious laugh. Since my twenties I have been pulled back to India half a dozen times, and each time has been life changing. Aaah…