[…] I have read many books that offer a new metaphysical vocabulary, an alternative pantheon, a reconstructed cult, or an ingenious magical technology. Black Pilgrimage attempts something more radical: it changes the position from which one perceives at all. Its world is genuinely poly-daemonic. River, forest, city, grave, body, mood, season, ancestor and god are presences, agencies, faces of an answering phenomenal All.