It’s strange. We think on the one hand about the ‘eternal gods’. Yet on the other, we consign them, as antiquated pantomime characters, to a dressing-up box that’s gathering dust under the stairs…in our heads. However, these deities are just as alive today as they were when the Greeks put on plays about Jason sailing the Argos to win the Golden Fleece, and Theseus daring to go into the labyrinth to kill the Minotaur.
So with my new album, Deities, I wanted to get them out of the box and present them musically as they come to me shamanically, in meditation at dawn, to give me guidance and healing.
If you go deeply into all the hero myths, and I have…well, most of them… the underlying message is that we are supposed to ask these deities for help. I mean, we’ve been sent here with no road map and no guide book. Are we just supposed to figure it all for ourselves? Hell no.
Mythological heroes, like Hercules, are always getting themselves into terrible pickles, from which they can only extricate themselves by appealing to the gods. Jason has a whole of crew of these deities on the Argos; Theseus was helped to escape the labyrinth by Medea, an aspect of Venus.
If you have a Gordian knot of a family problem that needs unravelling, these deities are the only ones with long enough memories to know when the twisting up first began, and it may not be in this lifetime. In fact, it usually isn’t.
Alchemists, back in the day, wouldn’t even dream of beginning an experiment or operation without first appealing to the deities for their help. The Latin word ‘laboratory’ comes from those days. It meant ‘place of work and prayer’.
These deities are most ‘available’ at dawn on their name days. I’m convinced that alchemists must have named the days of the week, as they are very good indicator to whom we should pray, and if you’d like to try it, here’s a guide.
So I hope you enjoy this album, and I’m most grateful to Andreas Pirner (@APi_ZZ) for creating such a stunning design framework for the covers, with the ‘mills of the gods’ set against the rising mists of Avalon at, for me, the most important time of day … dawn.
Just click on the album cover to listen to all eight tracks on Soundcloud.
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Annie Dieu-Le-Veut 
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