This is how the pantheon of our ancestors came about, whose world of gods consequently had to be polytheistic. In all ethnologies we find deities who are similar in their basic features and embody, for example, fertility, change or the elements - a Cernunnos of the Celts has astonishing similarities in symbolism and iconography like a Pashupati of the indigenous people of the Indus Valley, the Drawiden. The Germanic father of gods ODIN shows correspondences to Shiva Rudre of the Hindu tradition in many areas. Freya, the goddess of fertility and beauty / sensuality of the Germanic peoples, is worshiped in Hinduism as Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and abundance. All indigenous peoples respected women as the image of the Great Goddess, who was at the center of culture tens of thousands of years ago when the MOTHER (matrifocality). Countless finds of goddess figurines testify to this. Even among the indigenous people of Europe, the Celts, Germanic and Slavic tribes etc, women enjoyed respect as princesses, priestesses, wise men, healers and warriors on an equal footing with men. Only with the emergence and spread of patriarchal-monotheistic theologies was femininity and nature declared as sinful / evil. The woman and the rest of nature had to be subject to the man / man (women were deprived of the human soul by the church!) According to the dogma. Due to the growing influence of the Christian clergy in the green forest regions of Europe, the natural religious structures that had grown over thousands of years were suppressed and later even eradicated by force. According to the book "Religion" of the one-man God from the desert, not only women are subject to men, but nature and the rural population are also considered to be the property or serfs of the ruling church and secular princes, as a reflection of their imagined cosmic hierarchy with a single ruling male god highest authority. In order not to leave behind a world in which at some point neither humans nor animals have a chance of survival, it is of existential importance to see the living, animated, even divine being in the earth again, which our ancestors once worshiped as the Great Mother instead of her to continue to abuse in a capitalist way as a mere, freely exploitable store of raw materials. To do this, we have to tie in with long-forgotten, but once deeply known connections between all beings and ourselves; must consciously close the interrupted systemic connection lines to our ancestors and show them the respect they deserve. Because they were nature-loving earth inhabitants with high intelligence, culture and social skills and not the primitive barbarians as which they are often portrayed. The subjects of my more recent works relate to the polytheistic world of the indigenous people of Europe, and especially to our own, forgotten goddesses. Even in old tantric teachings, such as in Shavaitic-Kashmiri Tantra, the woman or yogini as the embodiment of the divine-feminine principle is given the highest veneration. The female body is seen as both the gateway to infinite space and the source from which we all come. By lingering meditatively in the sacred union of male and female energy (Sanskrit: Maithuna), the gate to the awareness of infinity in ourselves opens. * * * “The body contains everything divine. Those who can penetrate deeply into the body will achieve liberation. ”(Abhinavagupta) * * * Body painting is another field of my artistic work. It offers both the painter and the person painting the opportunity to dissolve the illusion of the separation of nature and spirit, me and the world through a deep immersion in the now for moments. In an environment in which the elements and natural forces can be felt on the painted skin - air, earth, wind, sun, water - it is easy to feel at one with nature. - to linger in a childlike state of happiness - to come into a liberating joy that lets you feel the connection to the divinity of nature, our own being, through the body. Beyond old conditioning of the mind, self-being is perceived anew. The shamans of the indigenous people knew how to connect with the power of nature / gods / ancestors and the elemental beings through rituals and techniques such as body painting, masks and dance and the enjoyment of teacher plants. in order to find strength and wisdom for existential decisions, on which the survival of the tribe often depended.