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Alchemy works translations, commentaries, and presentations of hidden evidence in myths, art, nature, science history

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Alchemy & Mythology

Vestal Keepers of Ordinary and Alchemical Fire: the Rite of Fire and Water

by Iulia Millesima

Imagining the keeping of the fire in Vesta’s temple as perennial is misleading: in reality it was extinguished and rekindled once a year in a secret ritual. This on/off operation, which had many analogies with an alchemical operation, ensured the continuity of the sacred fire—sacred because it guaranteed the perpetuity of the ancient ancestors. From Marco Baistrocchi, Arcana Urbis.

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Labors of Hercules: Second, to Thin the Lernaean Hydra

by Iulia Millesima

According to the mythological Labors of Hercules, the second step of preliminary works is to thin, disperse, and volatilize the raw salts. Let Mercurius/Secret Fire out.

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Labors of Hercules: First, to Open the Nemean Lion

by Iulia Millesima

The labors of Hercules are a metaphor for our Preliminary Works, those to achieve the Universal  Dissolvent. First: break the fixed raw matter, the Nemean Lion.

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Dionysus, Universal Dissolvent and Kykeon

by Iulia Millesima

The presence of a mysterious drink, the kykeon, was enough to transform Dionysus into the uncontrollable God of Life, the unique one to give a new life-body to a Soul…

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Mythology Tagged With: Dionysus, Libations, Sacrifice, Myths & Legends

Black Haida Crow Destroying the Matter Shell

by Iulia Millesima

 A Haida myth on a destructor creator crow perfectly fits our alchemical symbol of destruction and creation per antonomasia: the black crow.

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Mythology Tagged With: North American Natives

The Throne Hieroglyph and the Nightly Power of Isis

by Iulia Millesima

The throne hieroglyph’s different meanings reveal an ancient symbolism and later artistic iconographies on the primordial alchemical feminine.

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Eros, Psyche & a New Alchemical Body

by Iulia Millesima

Multiform and multi-names Eros with mortal Psyche. Together, they shape a new alchemical body, a nightly butterfly with strange and unexpected flight plans.

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Sargon Regulus, the little Sun

by Iulia Millesima

In Lucarelli’s “Origins of Alchemy”, I came up with an unidentified king Sargon tablet on the favorable conditions in which a virgin priestess can give birth to a little sun, a Regulus: [Read more…] about Sargon Regulus, the little Sun

Filed Under: Alchemy & Mythology Tagged With: Lucarelli Paolo

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