Month: September 2021
TS Eliot's "Devastated Land" and the Way of the Tarot
On the eve of the centenary of the publication of the Eliotian masterpiece, his devastated land today demonstrates all its relevance and evocative power. Narrative fragments that the reader composes and reassembles in a continuous game of investigation on himself and the world, just like those who walk the Way of the Tarot do: "With these fragments I have propped up my ruins".
Direct video: โThe plants of the godsโ, with Giorgio Samorini and Venexia Editrice
Wednesday evening at 21 pm on our YouTube channel we will have the pleasure of having a guest George Samorini, internationally renowned ethnobotanist, for the presentation of the Italian edition of "Plants of the godsโ, The historic text on sacred and psychotropic plants by Albert Hofmann, Richard Schultes and Christian Ratsch, recently published in Italy, in a collector's edition, by Venexia Editrice, which will also attend the meeting.
Nocturnal voices at the Sublicio bridge
Broadcast for the first time on September 24, 1995, the television drama written by Pupi Avati and directed by Fabrizio Laurenti is now twenty-six years old. Let's go over, for the occasion, the esoteric and occult elements that emerge from the vision of the five episodes that compose it.
The sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish iconography
Through the biblical episode of the Akedah, better known as the โSacrifice of Isaacโ, the pictorial cycle of the synagogue of Dura Europos testifies to an identity struggle between pagan and Jewish culture. Furthermore, the passage from Genesis XXII throws light on some instances concerning the foundation of the Temple of Jerusalem, and on the sacrifices that were paid within it.
Pierre Hadot and the spiritual exercises in antiquityย
Pierre Hadot's essay offers the opportunity to immerse oneself in the philosophical practice widespread above all in the Hellenistic era: an art of life aimed at forming men in harmony with themselves and with what surrounds them.ย
Live video: โFolk Horrorโ special. AXIS MUNDI presentation n.1 (with Obsidian Mirror)
Tonight at 21:00 we give you an appointment on our YouTube channel for the presentation to the public of the first AXIS MUNDI paper register (Lammas 2021), entirely dedicated to the โFolk Horrorโ literary and cinematographic genre. With us it will be there Obsidian Mirror, founder and manager of the homonymous blog, an obligatory passage for more than a decade now for all fans of Horror, Weird and Fantastic imagery.
Arturo Reghini: "The myth of Saturn in Western Tradition"
An extract from Arturo Reghini's essay "On the Western Tradition", originally published in 1928 on the pages of "UR", focusing on the myth of Saturn in the Latin and more generally Indo-European tradition. For those interested in reading it in its entirety, we have attached the PDF downloadable for free.
ยซStranimondi 2021ยป: conference on Gustav Meyrink
This weekend the annual edition of the Stranimondi fantastic literature festival will be held in Milan. At the opening, Saturday morning at 10:20, we will participate as speakers in a speech dedicated to the Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink, which have recently been (re) published in the Italian edition "The metamorphosis of the blood"(Bietti Edizioni, 2020) and" La morte viola "(Il Palindromo, 2021). Besides us, Andrea Scarabelli and Giuseppe Aguanno will speak.
The Platonic Cave, its Orphic and Pythagorean influences & the Mฤyฤ of the Upaniแนฃads
In this exhibition we will try to compare the main characteristics of the image of the Platonic Cave contained in the VII book of the Republic with those of the Mฤyฤ of the Upaniแนฃads. The common beliefs are evident and involve, above all, the bonds that determine the state of man's imprisonment and the possibility of redemption through the purification of changing forms.
