“Tales of the Serpent and the Moon” is a woven shawl of mythic threads, eco-mythological whispers, and tentative mendings of the broken stories that still hum in the bones of the land. These are not tales to consume or decode, but to live with, to compost and be composted by.
In the entangled spirit of mythopoetic inquiry, Sofia Batalha invites us into a landscape where stories emerge as sentient companions, and images become thresholds to ecological reciprocity, ancestral memory, and soul-rooted listening. Each tale acts as a shimmering riverstone, arising from dreams, places, and relationships, that can be held, turned, and reflected upon in one’s own inner cauldron.
This book is not about recovering a pure past, nor is it a bypass from modern complexity. It is a remembering of the sacred ways life speaks through serpents, grandmothers, swamps, lamias, crows, daemons, and rivers. It invites readers into embodied relational practices with myth, image, and land, away from extractivist knowing and toward felt, situated, ethical entanglement.
Sofia writes from a rooted European perspective, tracing stories beneath domesticated culture, colonizing narratives, and identity myths. These tales invite us not into clarity, but into complexity. Not into escape, but into repair. Not into certainty, but into reverent unknowing. This is a book to be stirred like a potion, lived like a question, and remembered like an old song.