Cosmic-Chthonic Cartography
Primeval underground mysteries of Iberian mythology, internal and external landscapes, symbiotic ecological narratives, eco-mythology, art, and writing.
*Honor hystera. Re-member. Response-ability. (un)Learn together.
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Cosmic-Chthonic Cartography is an invitation to intentionally wander through the mythical geography of tales, stories, dreams, imagination, and memories. But also of the body and the unconscious. This is a sacred place of creative, and arrational fabulations.
The initiatory descent into the sacred infernal and subterranean worlds is made in a profound relationship with the cycles of the cosmos and the ages of the earth. Integrating the seasons or phases of the moon, like the million-old mineral stone memories, opens cracks for other narratives simply by listening to the stories in full presence and with an open heart.
To this end, we are cartographers of ancestral territory, sacred rituals, and primeval archetypes. We invoke various ancient beings from wild Iberian mythology to help us feel, understand, and belong in deep generative alchemy.
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By Sofia Batalha
👉 Mammal, author, woman-mother, and question weaver one day at a time. Awkward prose-poet with no grammatical knowledge. Pilgrim through inner and outer landscapes of wild Iberian Mythology, remembering ancient earth practices, in radical presence, active listening, ecopsychology, eco-mythology, art, ecstasy, and writing.
👉 Ecopsychology, transpersonal and liberation psychology, radical listening and presence, ecstasy, animism, and ancient sacred connections and contextual practices have reforged my soul. (Re)Learning to live in immanence, belonging, and depth awareness.
👉 Certified in Ecopsychology and Applied Mythology by Pacifica; Contributes to The Emergence Network. Author of eleven books, including The Sanctuary: Essays on Eco-Mythology. Founder and editor of the free online magazine Wind and Water —questioning extractivist and phallo-anthropo-centric narratives through ecosystemic perspectives {we tentatively speak, write, and feel outside the violent illusions of control and perpetual economic growth}. Organizer of the first Eco-Mythology Gathering in Portugal (here with English subtitles).
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🌺 I'm a designer by academic background, a teacher by chance, a writer by visceral need, and an independent (re)searcher by natural curiosity.
🌺 I find Sacredness in the stones and the constellations, offering my heartbeat to the vibrant Web of Life.
🌺 I am only a passage, an instant of space and time between knowing and forgetting.
🌺 I dialogue with the hands-heart towards profound reciprocity, both creative and destructive.
🌺 I’m an intersection of many threads, layers, and dimensions, the visible, the invisible, the mutilated, and the imaginary.
🌺 I recognize the value of my decentered singularity in a deep and responsible relationship with everything else.
🌺 I reverberate with the metamorphosis and impermanence of the clouds and the wind.
[Disclaimer: All words and concepts woven into my work are born through my living, naturally biased, and always limited perception of things, not assuming they carry any absolute truth. I write from a low-intensity context on the global north, in deep accountability of modernity's ongoing ecocide and genocide].