New from the series Digital Poems of Ritual Magic
Resurgence 2020
By Lila Moore
When the cat left her imprint
on the Paleolithic cave's wall
to possess a body,
Sekhmet was awakened
and born from her stony flesh.
The dreamers
saw the feline-woman quenching her thirst
with the blood of the flooding Nile,
reclining on the back of a crocodile,
weaving into a papyrus scroll
the myths of civilizations and eons.
The lotus dreamers
dreamt of her being carried to the muddy shore
on the back of a crocodile,
a cat hidden by papyrus plants,
breathing eternal life
into the mouth of her priestess.
Watch the video
The video integrates footage of performance with video projections, clips shot at the British Museum, Royalty-Free footage of lioness & cat, and graphically manipulated drawings by Moina Bergson Mathers.
Performed, shot and edited by Lila Moore, 2019
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