A long time ago, humanity learned to do something literally immeasurable: for the first time, we were able to create images for the invisible. Then everything changed for us. And since that moment, we have not stopped thinking about nature, trying to unravel its mysteries hidden from the senses and to trace the limits of the sacred.

The questions we originally asked ourselves about the different natural phenomena as manifestations of something greater or different from the obvious inspired our first beliefs, rites, and universal myths. Thus, little by little, by internalizing the cycle of the seasons, by acting on the fertility of the earth and by interpreting the movements of the stars, the Sun and the Moon, humanity began the long journey of exploring nature in search of the original source of life, to also understand its relationship with the inescapable fact of death. Our great common adventure.

This is a wonderfully illustrated essay that explores the fields of anthropology, mythology, and spirituality. You can read it as chronicles of the sacred that delve into the ultimately unknowable territory of the unrestrainable powers of nature. Or perhaps as a journey through the primordial myths that have shaped human thought and the rites that, from the beginning of memory, organized our societies. Whatever the case, it is an original, fascinating, and captivating text that allows us to understand our most distant ancestors and remember what still links us to them: the need to give meaning to our existences beyond the veil of appearances that shapes the manifest part of reality.

"This essay on the origins of the sacred is a fascinating work, as it reveals that the mysteries of nature are a source of inspiration for understanding a transcendental reality, a vision that, without a doubt, we greatly need today in our materialistic societies." Le Monde

160 pages

20.5 x 27.5 cm