He paints mythological gods, draws local politicians and, in his most brilliant work to date, made a mock archaeological museum where he imagined how the Aztec conquer of Europe might have looked.
Their central deity, Jehovah 1, is accompanied by other gods drawn from ancient mythology and popular fiction.
"The place where God draws near to us, where he comes toward our world".
This is the pose of William Blake's God drawing the universe with a compass.
''I am here because God drew me here,'' she told me ecstatically.
He lectured about the lives of the prophets of God, drawing from traditional Islamic sources (and sometimes even Biblical ones).
The short but important Tractatus de primo principio, a compendium of what reason can prove about God, draws heavily upon the Ordinatio.
His evocation of Lope de Aguirre – the 16th-century conquistador terrifyingly incarnated by Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God – drew me, aged 16, into his world.
A prominent group of activists called the Khudai Khidmatgars, or Servants of God, drew direct inspiration from Gandhi's ideas of service, disciplined nonviolence and civil disobedience to defy the colonial authorities.
Most auspiciously, Ramya Ramnarayan — who has received sparkling praise from Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic of The New York Times — offers "Shyama — The Legend of Krishna," a portrait of the Hindu god drawn through the gestural language of Bharatanatyam.
