September 2018 – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Turan, the land of wolves

Published on: 29 September 2018 Last updated on: December 2 2020 Written by: Daniel Perra Categorized into: Anthropology, folklore, Islam, Mito, History, History of Religions

Journey to discover the founding myths of the warrior and deeply religious nature of the people who over the centuries have traveled, occupied and inhabited the vast geographical area of Turan.

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Gustav Meyrink at the frontiers of the occult

Published on: 25 September 2018 Last updated on: October 29, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

The collection of Meyrinkian essays just published by Edizioni Arktos allows us to outline a portrait of the Austrian novelist, in which the biographical and the literary aspects are configured as two sides of the same coin.

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Terra Sarda: Ernst Jünger's metaphysical Mediterranean

Published on: 20 September 2018 Last updated on: December 10 2018 Written by: Andrea Scarabelli Categorized into: Atlas, Philosophy, Italian Literature, Characters

The theater of these incursions is the Mediterranean, here understood in a more than a geographical sense: agora and labyrinth, "lost sea of the Self", archive and sepulcher, current and destiny, twilight and dawn, Apollonian and Dionysian.

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Beasts, Men, Gods

Published on: 16 September 2018 Last updated on: May 27, 2022 Written by: Daniel Palmieri Categorized into: Esotericism, Characters, Guests Book, History, Theosophy

Ferdinand Ossendowski's travel report through Central Asia is a precious testimony of the geopolitical upheavals of the early 900s, but what emerges above all are the "magical" beliefs and the atavistic superstitions of the Himalayan highlands.

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Luitzen EJ Brouwer: when Mathematics meets Mysticism

Published on: 12 September 2018 Last updated on: December 2 2020 Written by: Valentino Bellucci Categorized into: Characters, Science

The most advanced physics now gives reason to 'heretical' scientists like Brouwer, who in his work tried to reconcile mathematics and mysticism, leading him to perspectives that are nothing short of unusual, albeit influenced by the Pythagorean School of ancient Hellas and by oriental mystics.

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Goddesses and women of the ancient Mediterranean

Published on: 8 September 2018 Last updated on: 12 September 2018 Written by: Ascanio Modena Altieri Categorized into: Anthropology, Mito, History, History of Religions

Brief retrospective on the Sacred Feminine in the ancient Mediterranean, between numinous archetypes and the social context.

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The magic of the Mainarde: on the trail of the Janare and the Deer Man

Published on: 5 September 2018 Last updated on: 12 September 2018 Written by: Maximilian Palmesano Categorized into: Anthropology, folklore, Shamanism, History of Religions

A visit to Castelnuovo al Volturno, in Molise, allows us to give a face to the characters of local folklore, the Janare and "Gl'Cierv", and to resume some central mythical-traditional aspects of Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia.

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