Riverpeople

Every map has its Night Sky, because the Map is not the Territory, & yet it is. Ordinary maps project ideological inscriptions onto the body of landscape but a magical map would share essences with that landscape & engage in co-realization with it. Such a map could then act as a pilgrim's guide to the Profane or Secular Illumination, a pagan theory of Sacred Earth as cartomantic spell. Looked at this way, even ordinary maps possess an invisible or nocturnal dimension, or rather a set of stars & asterisms that replicate or mirror its topography & hydrography in the sleeping sky. As Above, So Below: sciences that (as Novalis says) will then have been poeticized.