April 2018 – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

HP Lovecraft, the "doors of perception" and the "cracks in the Great Wall"

Published on: April 28 2018 Last updated on: June 18 2019 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Science

How HPL analyzed in his literary production - and especially in "From Beyond" (1920) - the emergence of the irrational in the age of science and machines and anticipated the "psychedelic" suggestions on the pineal gland

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Hellequin's Masnada: from Wotan to King Arthur, from Herla to Harlequin

Published on: April 25 2018 Last updated on: November 1, 2019 Written by: Judith Failli Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Middle Ages, Mito, History, History of Religions

Second and last part of the overview dedicated to the "mirabilia" in the medieval West, to the mythology of"Army of the dead" and the "Wild Hunt"

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The Marvelous in the Middle Ages: the "mirabilia" and the apparitions of the "exercitus mortuorum"

Published on: April 20 2018 Last updated on: December 26 2018 Written by: Judith Failli Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Middle Ages, Mito, History

An overview of how the Marvelous and the irrational survived the advent of Christianity in popular culture, with a particular focus on the apparitions of the dead and above all of the "furious army", the discussion of which will continue in second part of this comprehensive study

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“Penda's Fen”: the sacred daimon of ungovernability

Published on: April 15 2018 Last updated on: November 3, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Cinema and TV, Esotericism, folklore, Mito

The revolt against the modern world and the initiatory journey of the young Stephen through his encounter with angels, demons and the ancient pagan powers of the English Motherland, in this undiscovered jewel of the Seventies British folk-horror.

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Marius Schneider: "The gods are songs"

Published on: April 10 2018 Last updated on: November 25, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Extracts, Mito, History of Religions

The peculiar archetypal-symbolic vision of the German philologist and musicologist Marius Schneider is splendidly enclosed in this first chapter of "La musica primitiva" (1960) in which the divine forces are seen, through the meticulous analysis of the origin myths of the most varied traditions, primarily as "sound powers".

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Francesco Petrarca and the search for the last Thule

Published on: April 5 2018 Last updated on: October 4, 2018 Written by: AnnaMB Categorized into: Middle Ages, Mito, Characters, History

The poet's adventurous journey in the footsteps of Greek and Latin geographers, in search of Thule, the lost and mythical Hyperborean homeland

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From Ganesha to Dionysus: dismemberment and (re) integration

Published on: April 1 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Beatrice Udai Nath Categorized into: Esotericism, Mito, Shamanism, History of Religions

From the myth of the beheading of Ganesha to that of Dionysus Zagreus quartered by the Titans, up to some brief mention of the Christian Savior: morphology of the initiatory path of the "Son of the Mother", from the "ritual dismemberment" to (re) integration in non-duality

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