Káthima

Deva of the Air

Here stands Káthima, and she is the quintessence of the mysteries of Air. She is a deva, this is a Sanskrit term meaning “shining one,” and she is a personification of the spiritual forces that inform the natural world.

She reminds us that from the moment when a new-born draws in their first breath of air, they are a living human being. A person’s final breath of air is the ultimate act of their life, and these acts are not symbolic; it is the transcendent experience of life.

The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, which means “breath.”