Month: July 2021
OUT NOW! AXIS MUNDI n.1, SPECIAL FOLK HORROR - LAMMAS 2021
Finally, in its sixth year of activity as a digital magazine, AXIS MUNDI arrives in print format! It will not be a magazine along the lines of the site, but a series of collectible thematic books, embellished with an attractive graphic layout up to the level of the contents, which will collect both material previously published on the site (and possibly revised) and unpublished contributions .
The god of crossroads: no place is without genius
ยซThe god of places is the recognition that through the invisible character of the place it is possible to access wider contents. That is, that the god of the place is able to relate us to a deeper plane of reality and of the psyche that transcends the single site or individual.or". Let's go back to talking about Stefano Cascavilla's essay "The god of crossroads", recently released for Exorma, and already presented in June on our YouTube channel.
โโฆ And the steers rose againโ: a disturbing ritual between witchcraft and pagan rituals
From the analysis of some inquisitorial trials for witchcraft that took place in Italy - and precisely between Emilia Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont and Trentino - the common theme of the resurrection of oxen, cows andโฆ
Live video: "Nocturnal history: Witchcraft & Sabbath", with Massimo Centini
On Thursday 15 July at 21 pm the sixth appointment of the summer cycle of conferences and presentations proposed by AXIS mundi will be broadcast on our YouTube channel. Our guest this week will be Massimo Centini, professor of cultural anthropology in Turin and Bolzano, and the topic on which we will focus will be that of medieval witchcraft in Western Europe, with a particular focus on what was the Italian situation.
โPassport to Magoniaโ: from folklore to alien myth
Finally, more than half a century after its release, thanks to Venexia Editrice it has been translated into Italian "Passport to Magonia: from Folklore to Flying Saucers โby French researcher Jacques Vallรฉe, theโ Book of the Damned โof the so-calledโ paraphysical hypothesis โ.
Live video: โAliens, Demons, Spiritsโ. Meeting with Gianluca Marletta
Tomorrow evening at 21:00 it will air on the our YouTube channel the fifth appointment of the summer cycle of conferences and presentations. This time our guest will be Gianluca Marletta, author of two books on the "alien myth" influenced by the so-called "Paraphysical hypothesis"of Jacques Vallee e John Keel, which we got to talk about last April at first national convention of ufology and esotericism.
The "Book of the Dead" of the ancient Egyptians (part I)
The so-called "Book of the Dead" in ancient Egypt accompanied the sacrificial offerings of food for the happy outcome of the otherworldly path of the deceased's soul: the welcome in the "circle of the Gods", eternal life in the "Hotep fields" and possibility of "going out in the day", that is to return to see the living and nature in our world. Nevertheless, in addition to collecting ritual, magical and religious formulas for these ceremonies, the aforementioned papyri also seem to contain interesting parallels with the phenomena of "experience on the threshold of death" and "out-of-body experience", as well as formal and content analogies with other sacred traditions .
