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ANDREW BOX
THE TIME MACHINE.
Essay on Archaic Cosmotheology
IMBOLC
2023
MARCO MACULOTTI
THE ANGEL OF THE ABYSS.
Apollo, Avalon, the Myth
Polar and the Apocalypse
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LATEST ARTICLES
The Dogon and the Sotian calendar
Waiting for tomorrow night's live broadcast with Antonio Bonifacio, dedicated to his book I Dogon. Masks and souls to the stars (Venexia 2015), we host this vast unpublished work by the author which summarizes the religious cosmology of the peoples of western Sudan and its links with ancient Egypt.
Prophetic Edgar Allan Poe: the “Gordon Pym” and synchronicities
Edgar Allan Poe was a prophetic master of macabre twists. But most disturbing is the novel he wrote about a shipwreck, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, in which he conjured up the same name as a man who 50 years later in real life would be shipwrecked and,…
Completing the Work: a pilgrimage in the Sansevero Chapel, in Naples
Visiting the temple conceived by Prince Raimondo di Sangro means taking part in a great collective history, branched out between artistic wonders and initiatory symbols. Even as spectators, it is an experience that should be done at least twice in a lifetime.
Shamash, Sun and Saturn
Complete translation of the famous article by orientalist Morris Jastrow Jr. on Assyro-Babylonian cosmotheology, hitherto unpublished in Italian, published in the Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeólogie Orientale in 1910.
EVERY SOUL IS A STAR — 1) Gustav Meyrink
With this article we inaugurate a new section, "EVERY SOUL IS A STAR". The goal we set ourselves with this project is to investigate, article after article, the men and gods they have embodied, through the investigation of their history and their birth chart, with the means of archetypal and traditional Astrology . In this first…
Apollo, Angel of the Abyss
Review by Giovanni Sessa in the magazine “Il Borghese” (n.1/year XXIII, January 2023) by Giovanni Sessaoriginally published in the magazine “il borghese” n.1/year XXIII, January 2023 and on barbadillo.it MARCO MACULOTTI is a young scholar who deals with Tradition, folklore, esotericism and fantastic literature. The multiple interests have endowed him with an uncommon exegetical ability,…
The Hypogeum God and the visionary rites of Chavín de Huantar
In 2016 we went to visit the sacred site of Chavín de Huantar in Peru, the most important temple of the pre-Inca civilization of the Chavín. In this report we analyze the archaeological remains that have come down to us - starting from the Lanzón, the Stele Raimondi and the characteristic "nail-heads" - and the visionary cult that took place…
The "Book of the Dead" of the ancient Egyptians (part II)
Second part of the study on the Egyptian Book of the Dead (continued from the first). A focus on the "solar monotheism" established by the pharaoh Akhenaten and on the probable contacts between the Egyptian solar cults and the Jewish religion, through the analysis of Egyptian and Judeo-Christian sources.
The Sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish Iconography (Part II)
Starting from the representation of Genesis XXII hosted in the synagogue of Beth Alpha, we will analyze how the Book of Jubilees sanctioned a correspondence between the biblical passages of the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Liberation from Egypt. Furthermore, in the figure of Isaac, who appears here in the form of a helpless and frightened child, we will be able to observe…
REVIEWS
HP Lovecraft's “The Pickman's Model”: dissection by a nightmarish artist
An analysis of the symbolic substrate - from the catabasis in a truly existing underground Boston to the pre-Islamic folklore of the Ghouls - of the famous story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pickman's model (1926), recently adapted in one of the episodes of the TV series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022), directed by director Keith Thomas.
The headless horseman. Washington Irving, the dark face of America
Washington Irving knows the value of orality as a privileged means of preserving and handing down memory; his short stories have the rhapsodic trend, the polyphonic sonority typical of speech and the writer entrusts improvised storytellers with the task of reconnecting the scattered threads of a shared cultural identity, weaving, between one side of the Atlantic and the other, the warp and…
Arthur Machen's "Other Reality"
The new volume - Another Reality. Racconti del Mistero - edited by Pietro Guarriello and published by Dagon Press, presents a selection of mysterious unpublished Machenian texts, which allow you to deepen some characteristic aspects of the Welsh writer.
Escape from the prison of the mind: "Gormenghast" by Mervyn Peake
Hallucinated and imaginative painter, multifaceted and visionary artist, forced by continuous nervous breakdowns to prolonged stays in nursing homes and psychiatric hospitals, Mervyn Peake entrusts the written word with the task of exorcising the dark obsessions that will eventually devour him. On the stormy sea of a dream universe both nourished and threatened by excesses ...
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ATLANTS
Dravidian Origins: Indus Valley Civilization as the origin of some Vedic myths and rituals
This article reconstructs the relevant coincidences between various finds from the Indus Valley Civilization and the myths and rituals of the later Vedic culture.
“Sos gherreros”, the Giants of Mont'e Prama
Archaeological analysis of the famous Sardinian site of Mont'e Prama, in the Sinis peninsula, through a retrospective of the excavations carried out and the findings.
Kasada Festival: a pilgrimage to Mount Bromo
Anna and Matteo, to whom we warmly welcome on our pages, went on a pilgrimage to Mount Bromo, on the island of Java in the Indonesian archipelago, to take part in the Kasada Festival, an annual event that has been held annually on the summit since time immemorial. of the volcano. They brought us their testimony and their photographic reportage.
Indigenous Siberian peoples and the Russian "national question"
The purpose of this study is to introduce the complex and controversial topic of the history of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Arctic in the Tsarist Empire and in the Soviet Union. After a brief introduction to the ethnic and cultural geography of the region, the policies adopted over time towards the aforementioned populations of the Siberian Arctic, the questions of nationality, ...
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HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
Live video: "The snake and the cross", with Paolo Riberi
Next Wednesday 14 December we will have the pleasure of hosting Paolo Riberi again on our YouTube channel, for the third time in just under two years, for the presentation of his book The Serpent and the Cross (Lindau 2021). Live streaming starting at 21:30.
Live video: "Sacred medicine", with Massimo Centini
Tomorrow evening, Wednesday 30 November, Massimo Centini will be a guest on our YouTube channel to present his book Sacred medicine: a journey through the medical-magical practices of Italian folklore (Yume, 2020). Appointment in live streaming starting at 21:30.
Live video: "Eastern European religions and folklore" (Mircea Eliade), with HC Cicortaş
Tomorrow evening starting at 21:00 we will have the pleasure of presenting on our YouTube channel the new edition of the historic book by Mircea Eliade From Zalmoxis to Genghis Khan: the religions and folklore of Eastern Europe (Mediterranean 2022) with the curator Horia Corneliu Cicortas.
Live video: "Etruscan Mythology", with Andrea Verdecchia
Tonight from 21:30 on our YouTube channel the first live video of the winter season will be broadcast. With us will be Andrea Verdecchia, author of the essay Etruscan Mythology (Effigi, 2022).
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MYTH
Presentation "The Angel of the Abyss" in TURIN (11 November 2022)
Tomorrow, Friday 11 November, we will be guests at the historic Arethusa bookshop in Turin to present our first paperback published with Axis Mundi Edizioni: L'Angelo dell'Abisso. Apollo, Avalon, the Polar Myth and the Apocalypse. Appointment in Via Giolitti 18 starting at 18:00.
“What the thunder said”: the influence of the Upaniṣad on TS Eliot's "Devastated Earth"
Since his college years TS Eliot had immersed himself in the study of the philosophy and thought of India. The devastated Earth as well as other writings of him reflect this deep connection with oriental thought, in describing the crisis of the modern world the poet draws on the Bhagavadgītā and the Upaniṣads.
The rite and sacrifice: the anthropological roots of "Apocalypse Now"
How the reading of Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough and other anthropological treatises on the rite and the ancestral origins of the social pact inspired Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece on the war in Vietnam.
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FOLKLORE
30 years of “Bram Stoker's Dracula”
Francis Ford Coppola's monumental film dedicated to the famous figure of the Count, released in theaters thirty years ago, managed to frighten and excite audiences around the world, thanks to its powerfully visionary style and the intensity of actors like Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins in the lead roles. But in addition to the undeniable originality with which…
Psychedelic Christianity (part I): Maria Sabina and the "fungal Eucharist"
An investigation into the syncretism between the "cult of the sacred mushroom" in the Mexican area and imported Spanish Catholicism, centered on the figure of the Mazatec "sabia" and "curandera" Maria Sabina. Following, some reflections on the bizarre but interesting fungal representations in the Christian cult, made known by authors such as John Allegro, Elémire Zolla, Gianluca Toro and Giorgio Samorini.
“Chameleonic analogies”: from the mandrake to the salamander, from the basilisk to the elf
In many legends of Italian folklore the mandrake inhabits the waters and is interchangeably described in its triple plant, zoomorphic, anthropomorphic aspect. Here we will describe some particular convergences between the "monster-mandrake", some mythological and non-mythological reptiles (salamanders, basilisks, snakes, dragons, reptiles and amphibians in general, winged creatures) and some subterranean and liminal creatures of ...
Live video: “L'Uomo Cervo”, with Massimiliano Palmesano
Tonight Wednesday 13 April at 21:00 we will have a guest on our YouTube channel Massimiliano Palmesano for the presentation of his new essay “The Deer Man: pantomime, ritual and myth” just released by Stamperia del Valentino.
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PSYCHE
The sword of Uriel and the Gates of perception: find the access to the lost paradise
Psychedelic Christianity Part II / Continued from Part I.
Direct video: “The eternal man and the depth of nature”, with Riccardo Tennenini
Wednesday 1 June at 21 pm the presentation of the book The depth of nature by Edgar Dacqué will be broadcast on our channels. Our guest will be Riccardo Tennenini, animator of Epistème - Knowledge beyond the mainstream.
Live video: “The religion of the samurai”, with Riccardo Rosati
Tomorrow evening from 21:00 we will host on our YouTube channel Riccardo Rosati, author of the presentation of the book by Kaiten Nukariya "The religion of the samurai", published in Italy in 2016 by Edizioni Mediterranee.
"Nothing is death for us": the roots of Epicurus' thought
In his philosophical school, founded on intense bonds of friendship and aimed at authentic pleasure, Epicurus sought imperturbability. We retrace the roots of his thought, inherited a few centuries later by Lucretius in Rome.
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LITERATURE
OUT NOW: “Another reality” by Arthur Machen. With our introduction
A small volume of unpublished works by the great Welsh writer Arthur Machen, with our introduction, has been published by Dagon Press, edited by Pietro Guarriello. Available for purchase on Amazon.
Pan's Awakening in Victorian-Edwardian England: "The Garden of # 19" by Edgar Jepson
The Garden at 19 (1910) by Edgar Jepson, who lived at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is presented as a pseudo-sequel to the Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, who was a close friend of Jepson: a folk-horror novel set in Edwardian London which was also appreciated by Aleister Crowley, just published in Italy by Dagon Press.
Borges hunting for dragons: the Nordic heritage in the work of the Argentine Master (part II)
How is it possible to conceive a poetic form made of a single, total and indivisible expression? The skald tries to answer this question with a long journey that coincides with his own life. Once the Individual Ego has been exhausted in a maelstrom of adventures, the protagonist finally manages to understand the word, which for him,…
HP Lovecraft & JRR Tolkien: world creators in the century of irrationalism
Howard Phillips Lovecraft and John Ronald Reuel Tolkien are both sons and active protagonists of the XNUMXth century. It is possible to read their work and activity as an expression of the aspirations, emotional needs, but also of the fears and tensions of twentieth-century man, as well as to rightly establish connections between them and the movements of twentieth-century Irrationalism…
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CINEMA
Live video: “Neo's awakening”, with Paolo Riberi
Next Wednesday 4 May from 21 pm we will have the pleasure of hosting Paolo Riberi again on our channels for the presentation of his new book, Il awakening of Neo. Mythology, Gnosis, Freemasonry and Metaverse from «The Matrix» to «Resurrections», just published by Lindau.
OUT NOW! "Massacre - The Novocarnista Review" n.1
Issue 1 of "Massacro - La Rivista Novocarnista" published by the guys of La Nuova Carne has just been released, with our retrospective on Aldo Lado's cult film "The short night of the glass dolls", released in cinemas exactly fifty years does.
States of hallucination
William Hurt, an American actor who starred in Ken Russell's epoch-making film Altered States, released in theaters in 13, died on March 72 at the age of 1980. Here we analyze the psychedelic aspects of the film which is currently being recognized as the masterpiece of the "British Fellini" on a par with…
Presentation «AXIS MUNDI n.1» for Esoteric Bookshop Milan
Tomorrow afternoon starting from 17:00 we will be guests on the YouTube channel and on the Facebook page of the Esoteric Bookshop in Milan to present AXIS MUNDI issue 1. Free live streaming on the channels of the Library.
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INTERVIEWS
Pupi Avati's fantastorico Elsewhere
For the 45th anniversary of the release in theaters of the cult film "The house with laughing windows" (August 16, 1976), we also propose this interview released by Pupi Avati to Andrea Scarabelli in October 2019, on the occasion of the release of “Il Signor Diavolo”.
25 years of "Arcano Enchanter": conversation with Pupi Avati
Exactly 25 years ago, on April 19, 1996, “L'Arcano Incantatore” was released in Italian cinemas: a variation by Pupi Avati on the theme of a genre he himself conceived and codified - the “Gotico Padano”. For the occasion we went to interview the director and we retraced the "making of" of the film and the final result.
Conversations with Mircea Eliade
114 years ago, on March 13, 1907, Mircea Eliade was born in Bucharest. For the occasion, let's spend a few words on the booklet recently published by Edizioni Bietti for the "Minima Letteraria" series, in which four interviews with the most important historian of religions of the XNUMXth century can be read, given respectively to Jean Varenne, Alain de Benoist, Fausto …
Jung and the magical rule over destiny. Interview with Roberto Cecchetti
We interview the philosopher analyst Roberto Cecchetti about the course on Jungian orientation practices that he will hold in March for the Sulfur Society.
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