“A woman’s personal altar evokes her particular--her intimate--relationship to the divine, human, and natural realms. There she assembles a highly condensed, symbolic model of connection by bringing together sacred images and ritual objects, pictures, mementos, natural materials, and decorative effects which represent different realms of meaning and experience--heaven and earth, family and deities, nature and culture, Self and Other. By actively engaging the Divine at the self-created sacred place, she makes her altar a living instrument of communication, a channeling device for integration, reconciliation, and creative transformation.[xxvi]”
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Kaalii Cargill,
Daughters of Time
