Month: May 2019

β€œI remember Lemuria!”: The Shaver Mystery, a myth for the atomic age

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Brought to the fore by the pulp magazine "Amazing Stories", directed by Ray Palmer, in the 40s of the last century, the "Mystery Shaver" is still remembered today as one of the most controversial and influential chapters of the vein - halfway between occultism and science fiction - of the so-called β€œAlternative Reality”.

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Kasenian RΓ©ak: the Sundanese horse dance between artistic performance and ceremonial possession (I)

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Luigi Monteanni spent a year in Indonesia to study Kasenian RΓ©ak, the traditional Sundanese horse dance, during which the participants in the ritual are possessed by spirits. What we propose in two episodes is a full-bodied extract from his master's degree thesis born from this experience.

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Archetypal Lycanthropy: "Man Becomes Wolf" by Robert Eisler

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The mythical anthropological essay by Robert Eisler, an eccentric masterpiece of erudition that investigates the origins of violence and cruelty, returns to Italian bookstores in a new edition.

The mythical anthropological essay by Robert Eisler, an eccentric masterpiece of erudition that investigates the origins of violence and cruelty, returns to Italian bookstores in a new edition.

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β€œAltiplano”: the pangs of Pachamama and the Anima Mundi

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Brosens and Woodworth's film is much more than a heartfelt appeal to the conservation of our planet's natural resources: in the drama of Saturnina, symbolisms and sacred conceptions of the New and Old World converge, which allow us to address the question on multiple levels intimately connected between They.

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