Lygophilia weaves together mythologies and sciences, history and future, fears and desires, continents, cultures, humans and non-humans. Lygophilia folds and unfolds the stories carried by those fascinating creatures that are the Mexican axolotl and the Slovene proteus. Axolotls and proteus, fascinating water animal species inhabiting two different continents, have in common not only they hide from light, but they also serve as examples of parallel evolution and endemism.