Ten women. Four religions. Two thousand five hundred years. One sheet — showing how a single “ancient” figure is assembled out of people who never met.
Plate
I
of II · fold in thirds
SPAN c. 500 BCE – 2025 CEFIGURES 10 sources → 1 compositeSTREAMS 4READS left (older) → right (sold)
Ancient paganismJudaismChristian & GnosticModern esoteric / New AgeThe composite (the product)threads = what each figure surrendered
Key — what the composite took from each
The Composite Goddess
She is presented as one, singular, and old — a suppressed original being “recovered.” The plate shows the opposite: she is recent, and she is plural — a marketing composite stitched from ten distinct figures across four incompatible religions. Every thread is real; the woman they meet in is not.