by Ascanio Modena Altieri cover: Ferdinand Keller, โA classical landscapeโ, 1902 originally published in L'Intellettuale Dissident We have already had the opportunity to know some festivities of our ancient calendar [cf. Lupercalia: theโฆ
Month: April 2017
HP Lovecraft: "Under the Pyramids"
Perhaps not everyone knows that, in 1924, the young writer HP Lovecraft was commissioned a story by the famous "magician" Harry Houdini. The latter told Jacob C. Henneberger, director of Weird Tales magazine atโฆ
Apollo / Kronos in exile: Ogygia, the Dragon, the "fall"
di Marco Maculotti
cover: Ferdinand Keller
Here we aim to bring to a conjunction some cycles of articles published so far in this first year of activity ofย AXIS world: the cycle concerning iย Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia, the one focused on the question ofย Time and cosmic cyclesย and finally the series of lectures by M. Ruzzai on the Myth of the polar and hyperborean origin of humanity.
Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism
di Andrew Casella
cover: "The zodiac and the planets"ย by Bartholomeus Anglicus, taken from De proprietatibus rerum, Ahun 1480
[follows from Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorphย eย A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse]
To resume the common thread of the images that we introduced in the first two appointments of this cycle, in the light of the previous considerations, it might be useful to quote a passage from Norse mythology.
