Mantra
Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya Mantra
Chanted by Hindus over the dying — not to prevent death, but to transmute it into liberation.
Epistemic shame — colonised between two worlds, native of neither.
Encoded memory — her hands move correctly before her mind catches up.
The Healing Flame — medicine when she stops apologising for being it.
The Garden of Lanterns — her abuela holds one of the lamps.
The first marble egg — carved by Doña Flor at Lake Atitlán since 1974. Bears a sleeping dragon and the words I remember you.
Linked to Selene through Toledo, 16th c.
Indigenous sacred wisdom — the female lineage.
The Sisters of this Path walk these tales of the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha: one a week, in order.
- 7The Ten Sons of InduDenial → Ease · Seat 41
- 15Dāśūra, the Kadamba Tree and the Air-born KingRejection → Gentleness · Seat 61
- 22UddālakaRejection → Gentleness · Seat 18
- 39The False IndraDenial → Ease · Seat 22
- 52The Final Dissolution: Śiva and ŚaktiSeparation → Care · Seat 51
- 56The Wonderful CarcassSeparation → Care · Seat 1
- 62The Wood-Cutters and the GemDenial → Ease · Seat 14
Every tale, with its guided practice and its song, in The Sixty-Four Tales of the Supreme Yoga (two volumes, ePub).