Paweł Al Nowak — theologian, religious expert and artist. He made his debut as an author in 1999 with the article: “Between the Danube and the Brahmaputra. The Great Matrix of Gods”, which was published in Przegląd Religioznawczy. In 2023, he published a book on a similar topic: “The Great Mother Goddess in Shaktism”. He is from Warsaw and a descendant of the Polish-Armenian Łukasiewicz family related to the inventor and entrepreneur, Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz. He lives in Stary Mokotów.