October 2018 – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Stories from past worlds: from Samhain to Halloween

Published on: October 31, 2018 Last updated on: October 31, 2018 Written by: Alberto Massaiu Categorized into: Anthropology, folklore, History, History of Religions

Throughout ancient Europe, the end of the harvest coincided with the feast dedicated to the souls of the deceased: let's see how we came from the Celtic celebration of Samhain to today's Halloween, passing through the Christian feast of All Saints.

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Fragments of a forgotten shamanism: the Piedmontese Masche

Published on: October 28, 2018 Last updated on: November 7, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Shamanism, History of Religions

The study of "magical" practices and folkloric beliefs regarding the Piedmontese Masche opens us some glimpses (not too unexpected) on Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia.

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Rosazza (BI): a stone jewel between freemasonry and spiritism

Published on: October 25, 2018 Last updated on: January 21 2019 Written by: Robert Eusebius Categorized into: Atlas, Esotericism, Characters, Photo reportage, History

We went to visit Rosazza, a town in the Biella area built by Federico Rosazza Pistolet and Giuseppe Maffei according to the Masonic symbolism well known by the first and ... under the indications provided by the spirits consulted by the second.

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Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan

Published on: October 21, 2018 Last updated on: April 27 2022 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Guests Book

The recent reprint of Arthur Machen's "folk horror" masterpiece allows us to shed light on one of the most fascinating phenomena of "pagan rebirth" in the modern West: the awakening of the Great God Pan in Victorian England, at the turn of the 800th century. and the '900.

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Shiva Bharaiva, the holy city of Varanasi and the Axis Mundi

Published on: October 17, 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Beatrice Udai Nath Categorized into: Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

Analysis of the myths concerning the divine figure of Shiva Bharaiva, the Linga of fire, the holy city of Varanasi, the symbolism of the "great universal crematory ground" and initiatory death: sacred geography of death and liberation.

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From the shaman to the raver: electronic music between primitivism and ecstasy

Published on: October 14, 2018 Last updated on: May 6, 2019 Written by: Robert Siconolfi Categorized into: Anthropology, Psychedelia

An anthropological reflection on the collective enjoyment of electronic music and on the phenomenon of "raves": from the ritualistic tribalism of the group to the "invasion", from the "death of the ego" to the ecstatic possibility.

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The end of the primordial age and the "Fall of Man"

Published on: October 11, 2018 Last updated on: October 6, 2020 Written by: Michael Ruzzai Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, Science, History of Religions

Notes of a mythical-traditional nature on the esoteric history of humanity in the present Manvantara: from the Golden Age to the "Fall", from the "Sleep of Adam" to the "Original Sin", from the tripartition Adam-Eve-Lilith to the revolt of the Bear against the Boar.

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With Abraham Merritt on the Vessel of Ishtar

Published on: October 7, 2018 Last updated on: January 20 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Characters, Guests Book

Thanks to the types de the Palindrome, Italian readers now have the opportunity to read the original and complete edition of "The ship of Ishtar" by Abraham Merritt, an initiatory novel focused on the Mystery of the 'coincidentia oppositorum'.

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Priapus "unveiled" in an ancient Molise tradition

Published on: October 4, 2018 Last updated on: October 4, 2018 Written by: AnnaMB Categorized into: Anthropology, folklore, History of Religions

The ancient gods can mockingly hide in the most unexpected folds of the stratified and lively popular devotion, such as in Isernia in Molise, where until 1780 a ceremony connected with the ancient fertility cults was held.

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