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Alchemy works translations and commentaries as well as presentations of hidden evidences in myths, art, nature, science history and even the ancient sacred games..

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Alchemy & Mythology

Vestals and Dolabra: the Rite of Fire and Water

by Iulia Millesima

Vesta, the divinity of the primary hearth, or rather the fire, was represented with waving veils. This flame was said to be the origin of the winds and vapors rising from the earth.

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Filed Under: Alchemy & Mythology Tagged With: Baistrocchi Marco, Fire Myths & Legends, Vesta Hestia, Water Properties

Labors of Hercules: Second, to Thin the Lernaean Hydra

by Iulia Millesima

The second step of preliminary works according to the mythological Labors of Hercules: is to thin, disperse, and volatilize the raw salts. Let Mercurius/Secret Fire out. [Read more…] about Labors of Hercules: Second, to Thin the Lernaean Hydra

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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. [Read more…] about Labors of Hercules: First, to Open 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. [Read more…] about Black Haida Crow Destroying the Matter Shell

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 do reveal an ancient symbolism as well as later artistic iconographies on the alchemical primordial feminine. [Read more…] about The Throne Hieroglyph and the Nightly Power of Isis

Filed Under: Alchemy & Mythology Tagged With: Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Eros, Psyche & a New Alchemical Body

by Iulia Millesima

Multiform and multi-names Eros with mortal Psyche. Together they give shape to a new alchemical body, a nightly butterfly having strange and unexpected flight plans. [Read more…] about Eros, Psyche & a New Alchemical Body

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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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