Great Mothers cycle

2015

400 × 350 cm

Jute canvas sewn with cords.

For I am the first and the last,

I am the one who is honoured and the one who is despised,

I am the prostitute and the holy woman,

I am the wife and the virgin,

I am the mother and the daughter,

I am the arms of my mother,

I am sterile, yet my children are many,

I am the married woman and the unmarried,

I am She who gives birth and She who has never given birth,

I am She who comforts in the pains of childbirth.

I am the bride and the groom,

And my man nourished my fertility,

I am the Mother of my father,

I am the sister of my husband,

And he is the son whom I rejected.

Always respect me,

For I am She who causes Scandal and She who Sanctifies.

Hymn to Isis

Found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt;

dating from the 3rd–4th century BC.