What if myths are places where the earth dreams through us? Vietnam’s Dragon and Phoenix each embody a combination of earthly and aquatic qualities that echo the ancient mangroves, wetlands and estuaries that make up the coastal landscape from which these mythic beings emerge. In this courtship of human imagination and the earthly world, the land dreams herself into creaturely form, hatching more of herself into being in this marriage-place of worlds, a place of encounter and reciprocal becoming. What becomes possible when we open ourselves to the earth’s wild intelligence, allowing its ways of becoming to move through and shape the way we make sense of our present day stories and our lives?
Read MoreCarving Memory, Gathering Bones, Singing Her
La Huesera, the ancient folktale of the mythical Bone Woman of the desert southwest, wanders the arroyos gathering scattered bones of wolves, singing over them until they reassemble and return to life. Bone Woman’s song is sung the world over, it is the mythic medicine we can heal from if we dare to gather what’s been forgotten and scattered together into the same circle of honoring. This is Old Story Medicine, the elixir She offers from her sacred cauldron when the world seems starved of connection, and in need of healing and repair.
Read MoreMagical Turtles and Mystical Swords: Twin Legendary Kings from East and West
Remarkably, Great Britain and Vietnam have a shared mythology surrounding a mythical King, a mystical lake, and a magical sword. The mythologies surrounding King Arthur and King Lê Lợi are so astonishingly similar, it is as though they are woven together with a silk thread into belonging with each other. In our disenchanted and divisive world, a synchronicity like this - if we allow it to be our guide - invites us to consider the mystery and interconnectedness of the world. These twin mythologies weave us back into relationship with the Anima Mundi, the Soul of the World.
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