"THE BIG BANG"
(1994)


Detail of center

A LIST OF
GODS,
GODDESSES
AND PROPHETS
WITHIN "THE
BIG BANG"

1. God
2. Abraham
3. Moses
4. Jesus Christ
5. The Virgin Mary
6. Muhammed
7. Krishna
8. Shiva
9. Maha Lakshmi
10. Brahma
11. Ganesh
12. Vishnu
13. Durga
14. Kali
15. Hanuman
16. Ra
17. Osiris
18. Isis
19. Horus
20. Anubis
21. Thoth
22. Nut
23. Bast
24. Ishtar
25. Abu
26. Marduk
27. Mithras
28. Abraxas
29. Serapis
30. Baphomet
31. Jain
32. Buddah
33. Tara
34. Vajrapani
35. Mahakala
36. Maitreya
37. Avalokiteshvara
38. Paramasukha-
Chakrasamvara
39. Rakytayamari
40. Nu Gua

41. P'An Ku
42. Yin and Yang
43. Izanagi
44. Gaia
45. Zeus
46. Poseidon
47. Bacchus Dionysis
48. Aphrodite
49. Persephone
50. Apollo
51. Cernunnos
52. Morrigan
53. Barinthus
54. Cuchlainn
55. Odin
56. Loki
57. Thor
58. Balder
59. Freya
60. Moon Spirit
61. Mother Earth
62. Father Sky
63. Earth Diver
64. Coyote
65. Quetzalcoatl
66. Tezcatlipoca
67. Eecatl
68. Tecpatl
69. Itzam Na
70. Ek Chuah
71. Mayan Sun God
72. Underworld God L
73. Ifa
74. Chibida Ilunga
75. Hine-Titama
76. Gwandusu
77. All Mother
78. Tangaroa
79. Ku
80. Rongo
81. Djanggawul
82. Pele
83. Easter Island God
84. Laindjung
85. Confucious
86. Hahai'i Wuhti
87. Shalako Mana
88. Zoroaster
89. Haile Selassie
90. Black Messiah

91. Agoue
92. Damballah
93. Ogoun
94. Guede
95. Venus of
Willendorf
96. Snake Goddess
97. Akua'ba
98. Amaterasu
99. L. Ron Hubbard
100. Yoda
101. Mickey Mouse
102. JR Bob Dobbs
103. Cthulhu
104. Azathoth
105. Shub-Niggurath
106. Nyarlathothep
107. Dream
108. Death
109. Kahless
110. Guru Nanak
111. The Devil
112. Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh
113. Reverend Sun
Myung Moon
114. Sai Baba
115. Uriel
116. Pan
117. Pythagoras
118. Maharaj Charan
Singh
119. Baal
120. Ashera

Images of 120 different gods, goddesses and prophets from almost every religious school were scanned into an Apple Macintosh Centris 650. They were not drawn, painted or rendered by me so as not to be disrespectful to certain belief systems that prohibit the use of iconic imagery. It was by searching for over 6 months that paintings or photos of all of these deities were found. These were the days before the World Wide Web and finding archival images was quite a task back then.

These images were placed in a diagram known as a "Cosmic Snowflake", which was designed by Frater Achad (a one-time pupil of Aleister Crowley) that includes 120 different Sephirot (points on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life). The Snowflake was originally drawn for Achad by William Ransom and first appeared in black and white in the book The Anatomy of The Body of God. The color painting of the "Cosmic Snowflake" used in this image was done by Steffi Grant and taken from Art and Images of The Occult.

In the center of the Snowflake, we see Alex Grey's painting of two people copulating. This is the "Big Bang". The primary act of creation. This is not to say that consciousness begins at this point or that sentient life instantly pops into existence during sex, but the process begins. The "Big Bang" is a metaphor for when your mother and father made you, as well as for the beginning of creation. But since we only know life and the universe in relation to our own time that we have been alive, it the world might as well have started at that point. For all you know, it could have.

A large version of this image hung at Nova Express Cafe for many years. I recently re-made this image as a 3D Lenticular that can be viewed HERE.