Month: June 2021
Live video: βLost Tales, the Italian pulp-magazineβ. Trialogue with Vittorio Cirino and Dorian Bones
Tomorrow evening at 21 pm on our YouTube channel the fourth appointment of the summer cycle of conferences and presentations will be broadcast. Our guests this time will be Vittorio Cirino, editor of Letterelettriche and editor of the magazine βLost Talesβ, and Dorian Bones, founding member of the Society of the Sulfur.
βIndomiteβ: the witches' tales of Simona Friuli
In the collection "Indomitable. Stories of crowned and beasts ", published by Vocifuoriscena, there is an echo of the best Sylvia Townsend Warner, among forests, hunter goddesses, bacchantes, kings and queens. A contemporary update of witch literature halfway between the "cruel tale" and the "black fairy tale".
Direct video: βHistory and practice of the magical artsβ, with Daniele Palmieri
Thursday evening at 21:00 will be broadcast on our YouTube channel the third appointment of the AXISmundi summer conference cycle. This week Daniele Palmieri will be with us, who has just published his new and full-bodied essay for Libraio Editore "History and practice of the magical arts".
The fruit of infinity: meditations on Venus, the apple and the fig
What is the food of the soul? Or what fruits are born in the garden of the imagination? An adventure through the geography of the psyche, following the red thread of the apple, from that of Adam to that of discord, from the mists of Avalon to the celestial realms where Venus traces her star. An excursion through the heights and winding paths of the world of archetypes.
The Victorian βGothic Revivalβ and the romantic nostalgia for the Middle AgesΒ
William Morris's literary work is an expression of the climax of his time: the gothic revival of the Victorian era aimed at evoking a fantasy Middle Ages, an invention to be contrasted with modernity. Thus Morris re-elaborates and retrieves symbols, themes and topoi of romances and poems of the medieval age: the cyclical journey, of initiation, of the hero protagonist, the trials to be overcome represented by the "merciless lady" and the perilous wood, the romantic nostalgia for forgotten times, for remote places that belonged to a mythical past. Everyone fears that Tolkien he will make his own and present them in a new light, renewing them, in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".
Joan of Arc, the Fairies and "San Michele"
Who prayed Joan of Arc on May 30, 1431, when, in the flames of the stake, she was begging her god to welcome her into his kingdom? An emblematic story of pagan survivals, fairy trees and apparitions of angels of light. A fatal destiny, between predestinations to martyrdom, Apollonian ecstasies and heresies.Β
Live video: βGnosis & Apocalissiβ, with Paolo Riberi
The second appointment of our new series of online conferences and presentations will be broadcast on our YouTube channel on Wednesday evening at 19:00. This week Paolo Riberi, author of the essays, will be with us "Abraxas: the magic of the drum" (Mimesis, 2021), "Red pill or black lodge?" (Lindau, 2017), "The Apocalypse of Adam" (Lindau, 2013), "Mary Magdalene and the others" (The Age of Aquarius, 2015) and "The Gnostic Apocalypse of Light" (Esther, 2020) .
Abraxas, or on escaping from the cosmic prison
In their new book, "Abraxas: the magic of the drum. The forgotten cult of the cosmic god from shamanism to gnosis", released in March for Mimesis, Paolo Riberi and Igor Caputo investigate the figure of the god / demon Abraxas, halfway between that of the Demiurge of the Gnostic and Platonic cosmogony and that of the aeonic god who connects the various levels of the cosmic manifestation.
Direct video: βThe god of crossroads: in the footsteps of the Genius Lociβ, with Stefano Cascavilla
Tomorrow evening at 21 pm the first appointment of our new series of online conferences and presentations will be broadcast on our YouTube channel. Stefano Cascavilla, author of the essay, will be with us "The god of crossroads: no place is without genius" (Exorma, 2021).
Presales are open for βGOLEM n.1β, the magazine of the SocietΓ dello Sulolfo
From today the presales are open for the issue number 1 of "GOLEM", the paper magazine of the friends of La SocietΓ dello Sulolfo, coming out at the Summer Solstice! Among the 12 articles you will also find our "In the footsteps of Andean Shamanism: a healing ritual in northern Peru", based on our personal experience in Huancabamba, in the summer of 2016.
The Altaic exploration of Nicholas Roerich in search of Belovodye, "the Land of the Living Gods"
Among the places visited by Nicholas Roerich during his Asian expeditions in the 20s, a special mention goes to the area of ββthe Altai Mountains, where the Russian painter and explorer went in search of the mythical Belovodye, underground "Land of the Immortals" equivalent to Himalayan Shamballah, where according to legend the mysterious Chud lineage was hidden in an antediluvian past, and from which it is believed that in the near future the holy Oirot Khan, last descendant of Genghis Khan and "Savior of the World", will come.
June conference program on our YouTube channel
Here are the cultural events and book presentations that will be broadcast this month, one evening a week, sul our YouTube channel. Live streaming starting at 21:00.
