tenders of the temple
Priestess Devanna
A spiritual seeker from a tender age, Devanna Sira envisioned a life devoted to art and mysticism. From her earliest experiences as a Wiccan initiate in her teens, through many years of self-directed study and magical pathworking, Devanna eventually found a spiritual home at the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple, where she began her formal training with Mandala Priestess Yeshe Matthews.
Devanna was ordained as a Skydancer Priestess in 2019, dedicating her primary devotional work to the goddess Hekate. Since 2020, she has helped develop and co-teach Via Carmen Pythia, the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple’s two-year Sibyl Training Program. In the years following her ordination, Devanna has pursued a path of divinatory service supported by sustained research into the historical Sibyls and the oracular temples of the ancient world.
Her self-initiated study and devotion to the goddesses of her ancestral Armenian homeland are also a primary focus of her priestess path and hold a dedicated place within this Temple.
At its founding, Devanna’s personal devotions inform the framework of the Crossroads Goddess Temple. While Hekate functions as the beating heart of this Temple body, Devanna is devoted to a constellation of goddesses largely originating in the eastern Mediterranean basin and extending into northwestern Europe, including ancestral goddesses of both blood and spirit. The Germanic and Norse goddesses form one arm of these intersecting roads, alongside devotion to forms of Mary, understood as the principal surviving spirit of the ancient mother goddess.
With these goddesses establishing the initial compass rose of devotion, the vision of the Temple is that through its unfolding work, new goddesses will come forward to take their places at the Crossroads.
Temple guides
The Crossroads Goddess Temple is rooted in an animistic understanding of the living world, guided by two spirit allies, the Wolf and the Serpent.
The Wolf embodies courage, resilience, and instinct, qualities we cultivate in ourselves through mythic relationship with the natural world and embodied practices. The Serpent moves between worlds as a living symbol of liminality, transformation, and wisdom, stewarding our oracular and contemplative work.
These guides form the foundation of the temple’s learning programs. Path of the Wolf grounds seekers on a journey through chthonic myth, folk magic, and animist ritual practices. Serpentina leads seekers through the shimmering, ripping landscape of appearances, developing awareness, mystic perception, and the interconnectedness of all beings.
Together, these crossed paths form the virtual axis of the Temple with the Wolf and Serpent warding its gates.