Mantra
Mahā Mṛtyuñjaya Mantra
Chanted by Hindus over the dying — not to prevent death, but to transmute it into liberation.
Shadow
Epistemic shame — colonised between two worlds, native of neither.
Gift
Encoded memory — her hands move correctly before her mind catches up.
Essence
The Healing Flame — medicine when she stops apologising for being it.
Between Place
The Garden of Lanterns — her abuela holds one of the lamps.
The Egg
The first marble egg — carved by Doña Flor at Lake Atitlán since 1974. Bears a sleeping dragon and the words I remember you.
Karmic Thread
Linked to Selene through Toledo, 16th c.
Silenced Voice
Indigenous sacred wisdom — the female lineage.
Sisters of Threshold