The performance “Offering to the Gods” is inspired by ancient magical spells. Mahajena relocates and revisits these spells, also adding an imagined ceremonial act. A group of women cook a tribute to the god of fertility, pleading for fruitfulness and dynastic endurance, loudly reciting prayers as they use a pestle and mortar to shred leaves and salt, which are then spread on the ground and cooked in a pot as an offering. A humming sound and the recital of an ancient prayer pronounced prior to sexual intercourse is preceded by the production of a magical drawing on a wall, a sigil whose energy will symbolically linger in the gallery’s environment for the duration of the exhibition. This performance took place at the Bezalel Gallery as well as al-Markaz Gallery in Jerusalem, as part of the exhibition “Vow,” on the subject of the female goddess, femininity and sexuality in the Middle East.