Browsing: Mythology

A mythological representation of Yer-Su as a dispersed network of sacred spirits inhabiting and protecting the natural environment of the middle world.

A mythological representation of the mountain as a vertical axis approaching the heavens, a protective boundary, and a sacred centre from which qut and authority emerge.

A mythological representation of fire and the hearth as the transformative and protective core of the yurt, sustaining family unity, lineage, and the continuity of the homeland.

A portrait of Eliade accompanying his concepts of hierophany, sacred space, the world axis, primordial time, ritual repetition, and initiation.

A Symbolic representation of sacred space, the threshold, the world centre, and the vertical relationship among the underworld, earth, and heavens.

A Symbolic image representing the passage from historical time into sacred time through myth, ritual, repetition, and the return to origins.

A Mithraic visual context accompanying the encounter between Jung’s clinical image of a tube hanging from the sun and a similar motif in an ancient liturgical text.

The Colossi of Memnon at Thebes, used as a visual reference for Hermetic cosmology, sacred order, and the relation between human beings, the cosmos, and the divine.

An introduction to Hermes Trismegistus as a mythic, historical, and symbolic figure of ancient Hermetic wisdom.

Axis mundi means the world axis: a sacred center linking heaven, earth and the underworld through mountains, trees, temples and mythic space.