Fire Cleanses All

Calling up the energy of fire:

Drawing from the wells of deep fire bellowing in the bowels of my mother—a holding place.

Fire will cleanse us all.

From Enheduanna's ancient hymns to Inanna:

Like a dragon,
You poisoned the land—
When you roared at the earth
In your thunder,
Nothing green could live.
A flood fell from the mountain:
You, Inanna,
Foremost in Heaven and Earth.
Lady riding a beast,
You rained fire on the heads of men.
Taking your power from the Highest,
Following the commands of the Highest,
Lady of all the great rites,
Who can understand all this is yours?

Enheduanna. Trans. Jane Hirshfield. (circa 2200 BCE). Ninmesarra [Hymn to Inanna]. Retrieved from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/157578/from-the-hymn-to-inanna.