
Galloping Horses and Mountain Mother
The invitation to play in Spiral Muse Band (back when it was called Devi Vaani) changed my life. I arrived to the Art Womb (yes, that’s what the downstairs classroom off the church hall is called) for the band’s practice and opened the door to see guitar cases splayed open on a few long tables and paintbrushes perched in glass jars. On every wall hung portraits of goddesses: Inanna, Isis, Mary Magdalene, Bridget, Yemaya, Pele, to name a few. Each band member—Alison, Dionne, a