ואם רץ לבך שוב למקום

Ve’im ratz lev’cha shuv la’makom

“When your heart runs, return to the place”

— Sefer Yetzirah

Lisa England 

is a writer, artist, sound alchemist, ritualist and votaress devoted to Mesopotamian ancestral remembrance and the luminous cyclical wisdom preserved through lunar time.

Her research and creative work are intended to anchor a modern place of reverence and ritual return for the primordial moon god Nanna-Sîn, his priestesses and their temple traditions. Through this lineage, lunar time was once lived, honored and consulted as a source of righteous royal decisions.

She tends Eḫulḫul in this role as a votaress of Nanna-Sîn — bound by a vow of service, not by institution or affiliation.

Raised in a strict monotheistic community, Lisa has been a heretic at heart since she was old enough to memorize passages of the King James Bible while privately reading the erotic poetry of Sumer — and finding them deeply connected.
Long before she had language for it, she sensed that something essential had been remembered in the older world, and deliberately forgotten in the newer one.

Perpetually “out of time,” she has always lived at the speed of a bygone era, with a keen awareness of sacred cycles. From a young age, she felt guided to seek her true temporal orientation through history, myth and esoteric lineages — not as a collector of beliefs, but as one searching for the living grammar of time itself.
This search led her to follow a “red thread” backward through religious history: from modern monotheistic traditions, to earlier Israelite and Hebrew wisdom, and further still to the Anunna pantheon of early Mesopotamia and the fertility cosmologies that predate book-based religion. What emerged was not a rejection of her spiritual inheritance, but a deeper recognition of its ancestral roots — and of the politics of selective memory that have shaped its evolution.
Her journey also carried her to places such as Harran in southeastern Türkiye and the wilds of the Sinai Peninsula, where land itself became her teacher. In these threshold geographies, she encountered archives of cyclical devotion not primarily through text, but through wind, rock, stone and long nights under the moon.
After serving for five years as a teacher and practitioner of goddess wisdom within the Hebrew biblical tradition, Lisa now devotes her life to pathways of ancestral remembrance rooted in early Mesopotamia — and to embodying a form of ancient-future devotion in which memory itself becomes sacred relationship and a house of belonging.
Her wider body of independent study and ritual explores custodianship of remembrance and companionship across generations, through the lenses of land-based spirituality, erotic ecology and the cosmic partnership between king and priestess that structured Mesopotamian understandings of power, fertility and order.
She is particularly interested in the under-acknowledged but continuing imprint of Nanna-Sîn within Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions, as testimony to what survives even when a god is no longer named.

Lisa's work is offered with devotion and reverence to Nanna-Sîn (Suen), the beloved Mesopotamian god of the moon and keeper of sacred cycles. His great houses — É-lugal-ĝalga-si-sá at Ur and Eḫulḫul at Harran — stood for millennia as communal centers of timekeeping, cycle-marking, divination and right relationship within the Great Chain of Being.
If the names Ur and Harran sound familiar to biblical readers, it is because both cities figure prominently in the origin story of the blessed Prophet / Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah, whom Lisa names as her spiritual parents and most revered ancestors.
She honors Harran as her spiritual home and charts the lunar cycles each month from her rooftop giparu — a priestess dwelling — in downtown Cairo, where time moves at the speed of the moon.
Lisa's additional work as a writer, musician, and independent scholar of Desert Devotion and Migratory Sound can be found on her personal website.