indigenous cosmology
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Ancestry is not about religion, but it spills over!
Whenever I write about Indigenous peoples, African cosmologies, or Celtic traditions, I imagine someone might think this is a blog about religion. Actually, it isn’t. Or rather: religion appears, but it is not the center of the conversation. What interests me is understanding how different peoples organized their relationship with nature, with memory, with community,…
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The sunflower of three worlds
The sunflower appears in very different places. In Van Gogh’s painting. In the Queen of Wands of the Rider-Waite Tarot. In the legend of Cabocla Jurema. Three stories that were born in different times, cultures, and contexts, but that seem stitched together by the same thread. I begin with the tarot. The Queen of Wands…