Atalanta Fugiens · Emblem XLIV

Dolo Typhon Osyridem trucidat, artusque illius hinc inde dissipat, sed hos collegit Isis inclyta.

By guile Typhon kills Osiris and scatters his limbs here and there; but glorious Isis gathers them.

Emblem XLIV

A reading

Dismemberment, then gathering. What was scattered can be collected, and the collecting is its own work.

A question to carry

What scattered pieces of yourself are waiting to be gathered?

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Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618), with the Latin motto, a translation and a reading for each plate.

Engraving in the public domain.

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