Egypt
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Symbolism of birds
You know when you start noticing the same symbol appearing in completely different stories? That is exactly what happened to me while researching the Eye of Horus and Mati-Taperê, because both draw upon the image of the bird. Horus, the Egyptian god of the skies, is represented as a falcon, or as a man with…
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The scribe of the moon
Have you ever noticed that some people feel there is a connection when they look at the moon? This perception has accompanied humanity for thousands of years. In different cultures, the proximity between the average length of a lunation (about 29.5 days) and the menstrual cycle, which varies naturally from woman to woman and from…
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Horus’s Incompleteness
Have you ever stopped to think that even the most ancient symbols carry a philosophy of incompleteness? The Eye of Horus, one of the best-known symbols of Ancient Egypt, holds a detail that often goes unnoticed. And it was precisely this detail that transformed the way I think about the idea of being “whole.” Egyptian…
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Legacies of Egypt
This is a text to talk about the origins of the tarot. The association between Tarot and Thoth did not begin with Aleister Crowley when he conceived the Thoth Tarot as we know it today together with Lady Frieda Harris this connection was already being woven for at least 150 years. Crowley did not start…
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Thoth: the sorcerer of Egypt
Why does Thoth remain one of the figures that fascinates me most? The answer has changed over time. At first, I saw him primarily as the god of magic, writing, and knowledge. Today I continue to recognize these attributes, but I have come to see something even more interesting, because Thoth represents one of the…
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Horus and Matinta
The more I observe the world, the more I find images that speak about transformation in different cultures, mythologies, and symbolic traditions. Not because they tell the same story, but because they seem to try to answer, each in their own way, a deeply human question: how do we transform without ceasing to be who…