Cosmic-Chthonic Cartographies
Ecologies of Myth, Memory & Grief
This space is not a platform for answers. It is a living ground of questions, mythopoetic textures, and eco-mythological offerings. Here we walk alongside the primeval mysteries of Atlantic Iberian mythology, ancestral underground revelations, entangled ecological narratives, dreams, and body-listening practices that emerge from both personal and collective wounds of modern severance.
We are not here to extract meaning, but to be soiled and shapeshifted by what we do not yet know.
Why this work?
The stories shared here rise from the tangled roots of dreams, research, grief, and a long process of unlearning the colonial, modern, and disembodied patterns that have domesticated not only our lands but also our imaginations. Nothing here is of academic authority or a “mystical certification”. It is an ongoing, situated, accountable inquiry emerging from within the wounded landscapes of the Global North, as an attempt to remember what it might mean to become response-able again, to hold paradox, to grieve, to tend and to listen.
What you’ll find here:
Eco-mythological entanglements of Atlantic Iberian underground mythos
Interweavings of body, grief, and the sacred mundane
Story as decomposing and regenerating knowledge
Dream-rooted explorations that honor not only life, but decay, liminality, and emergence
Why subscribe?
I’m working to make all posts open to everyone. Paid subscriptions help support the depth of this research, allowing these narratives to continue gestating outside institutional and market demands. You’re invited to support if you feel called, but your presence here, as a living witness, is already part of the story.
Honor hystera. Re-member. Response-ability. (Un)learn together.
This is not a hero’s journey. This is a remembering.
By Sofia Batalha
Eco-Mythic Activist and Question Tender
Sofia Batalha is a writer, eco-mythologist, and facilitator of radical presence, whose work braids ecological deep listening, embodied myth, and collective repair. Rooted in the lands of Portugal, she moves through the paradoxes of decolonial remembering and symbolic ecology. With a background in ecopsychology and applied mythology, Sofia tends to stories as a brew, inviting entanglements beyond extractivism. She is the author of several books. Her offerings stir the memory of our porous, reciprocal place in the living world.
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[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].
