indigenous cosmology
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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…
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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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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…