Kispu
A quiet table for remembrance.
A remembrance and journaling experience informed by Mesopotamian care for the dead. Make room for a name and a memory, choose a symbolic act of care, and rest in silence. The evidence and the modern exercise are kept clearly apart.
What you can do
The ancestral table
Bring someone to mind, or leave the table unnamed. Recall one ordinary memory, choose a symbolic offering such as water, a flower or an act of care, and sit in silence.
A letter of remembrance
A second practice helps you compose a few private words for a remembered person, to keep in your journal.
Timed and gentle
Stage countdowns for sessions of 1 to 60 minutes, original ambient sound with volume and mute, and the option to pause at any moment.
Private by design
Names, memories and letters stay on your device. Nothing requires a reply, and nothing is sent anywhere.
From the running app
Screenshots coming soon
We only show screens captured from the running app, with demonstration data. Captures for Kispu are being prepared; until then this artwork is illustrative and is not an app screen.
What comes from the record, and what is new
EVIDENCEFrom the historical record
- In Akkadian, kispu denotes a funerary offering, part of Mesopotamian care for the dead (ORACC lexicon).
- Research discusses periodic offerings for the dead in ancient Mesopotamia. Ancestor care should not be equated with divination or with expecting replies.
MODERNMade for this app
- Names, memories and the symbolic offering prompts are modern remembrance, not a reconstruction of one ancient ceremony.
- The app makes no claim of contact with the dead.
Sources named in the app: ORACC Akkadian lexicon, kispu · scholarly research on Mesopotamian care for the dead
Kispu is a contemporary contemplative experience for study and reflection. It does not promise contact, prediction, initiation, healing or any other outcome, and it is not medical or psychological advice.
Privacy and release
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