Los orígenes de lo sagrado : Un ensayo ilustrado sobre la relación ancestral del ser humano con la naturaleza

Long ago, humanity learned to do something literally immeasurable: for the first time, we were able to create images of the invisible. Then everything changed for us. And since that moment, we have never stopped thinking about nature, trying to unravel its mysteries hidden from the senses and to define the boundaries of the sacred. The questions we initially asked ourselves about different natural phenomena as manifestations of something greater or different from the obvious inspired our first universal beliefs, rites, and myths. Thus, little by little, by internalizing the cycle of the seasons, by acting upon the fertility of the land, 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 shared adventure. This is a beautifully 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 nature's unstoppable powers. Or perhaps as a journey through the primordial myths that have shaped human thought and the rituals that, since the dawn of memory, have organized our societies. Either way, it is an original, fascinating, and captivating text that allows us to understand our most distant ancestors and remember what still binds us to them: the need to give meaning to our existence beyond the veil of appearances that constitutes the manifest part of reality.