return to the place


School of Divine Radiance is an online temple serving earth-based priestess medicine rooted in the sacred lands, texts and traditions now associated with Judaism, Christianity and Islam.


Come follow the red thread of goddess wisdom hidden in the Bible and Quran, back to its origins in Mesopotamia.

Come. Sit awhile.


Can you hear the desert speaking?


Echoes of rituals past. Whispers of chanted prayers. The tinkle of ankle bells on priestesses, dancing in virgin sand.

These lands hold ancient medicine, so long suppressed.


Are you ready to hear ... and listen?

Before the rise of the "desert religions" ...


Judaism, Christianity and Islam ... the Middle East and North Africa were alive with verdant earth-based spiritual traditions and temples to the sun, moon and stars.

Echoes of these earlier spiritualities are still present, yet intentionally hidden, in modern patriarchal religious practice.

School of Divine Radiance supports spiritual origin-seekers to remember this pre-religious earth-based heritage by reviving temple traditions from Mesopotamia, Canaan and Arabia.

Welcome, I'm Lisa Moriah.


As a shamanic priestess, somatic sound healer and sacred sales coach, I offer all my work in devotion to SHADDAI, fertility goddess of the biblical patriarchs, and SĪN, lunar god of their priestess wives.

The books, workshops, courses and events at School of Divine Radiance are intended to re-vive the pre-monotheistic fertility theology and rituals from Mesopotamia, Canaan & Arabia that are still present in the Bible and Quran.

My work helps women and men heal trauma from patriarchal religion and find spiritual wholeness by weaving earth-based practice with the texts and traditions of their ancestors.

Shlama שלמא سلام!


I'm so delighted you're here ... and I hope the resources available at School of Divine Radiance are a blessing to you as you seek to re-member your own spiritual path, with the inspiration of early wisdom.

Our honored ancestral guides ...

are the En priestesses of Ur in Mesopotamia, (of whom Sarah Abraham's wife may have been one), the qadosha priestesses of the Israelite temple, and the kahina priestesses of Arabia.

We also honor the holy mothers, saints, prophets and their wives, and other notable figures of all Abrahamic religions as spirit guides.

Access Your Free Mini-Course


Before Judaism, Christianity or Islam existed, priestesses across Mesopotamia embodied the Goddess through ritual leadership, creative work and powerful voice.

In this 10-module mini-course, you'll meet these sacred ancestors, and experience the gifts they have to share with us, as we re-member Goddess in our birth religions and return with love to our earliest-recorded spiritual origins.


Join me live or online for:

Religious Herstory

Courses and workshops featuring comparative theology amongst Sumer and Akkad, early Israel and Anatolia, and later Abrahamic religious record. We re-read the Hebrew matriarchs as priestesses and the patriarchs as Goddess-worshippers.


Drum & Voice Healing

Private sessions, workshops and events featuring human voice and the ancient frame drum. These simple, powerful vibrations bring the human body vessel "into rhythm" with its own life purpose and activate greater creativity and fertility.

Inner Alchemy

Private coaching, workshops and events guiding women to embody the Goddess within and come into union with King energy (men, money, mission and the Divine Masculine) so they can experience a natural flow of wealth, health and love.


The land speaks ...


Working with Shaddai & Sīn has drawn me deep into spiritual archaeology and into a living relationship with ancient soil.

My work in the school takes me between the 5000-year-old ruins of Harran, in Türkiye, where Abraham and Sarah once lived ... and the rugged beauty of the Sinai Peninsula, where Moses and Miriam led fugitives to freedom.

Both lands are rich with the energy of Shaddai and Sīn. Here, every stone has a story and the ground yields secrets to those who listen. I find potent medicine for fertility, sexual healing, wealth, sacred love and belovedness ... and the growth of my capacity to be, like Goddess, a holder of paradox in an increasingly polarized world.

This is the ancient practice of shuv l'makom (שוב למקום) or "returning to the place" of divine presence ...

because place is medicine for the soul.

מאל אביך ויעזרך ואת שדי יברכך ברכת שמים מעל ברכת תהום רבצת תחת ברכת שדים ורחם׃


The God[dess] of your father’s [house], who helps you
And Shaddai who blesses you
With blessings of heaven above
Blessings of the deep that couches below
Blessings of the breast and womb

~ Genesis 49:25

Wondering where to start?

If you are new to biblical Goddess study, Abrahamic shamanism or ancient Mesopotamian perspectives on feminine power ... the simplest place to start is with my 2023 book, SHADDAI: Goddess of the Abrahamic Covenant.

This systematic study examines every mention of Shaddai in the Hebrew Bible (known to Christians as the Old Testament). It also answers questions like, "When did Goddess disappear from biblical tradition?" And "How can we begin to reclaim Goddess and shamanic practice in spirituality today?"