Month: November 2021
Amazonian mirage
Parallel lives in the history of the exploration of the Amazon: from the conquistadors to Colonel Fawcett, passing through the cinema of Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski.
The language of the Sicilians in the Indo-European family tree
The Romans could not fail to notice the fact that the Latin language had many phonetic and syntactic similarities both with the language of the Hellenes and with that of the Sicilians, and their historical documents provided a very important support in this regard, since they synoptically affirmed that in Lazio they lived both Sicilians than Hellenes in more ancient times. Certainly, however, they could not have imagined that these similarities, that is this passage of isoglosses, actually dated back to the time of their Central European settlement and not to the chance second meeting in the Italian peninsula.
Autumn publications: "ATRIUM", "The immobile traveler" and "Towards psychedelic maturity"
In the last few weeks, three editorial products have been printed in the creation of which we participated: the register n.3 / 2021 of the magazine "Atrium", directed by prof Nuccio D'Anna, with our extensive essay on "Viracocha and the myths of origin of the Andean tradition "; la silloge βThe immobile traveler. Essays for Gianfranco de Turris on the occasion of 60 years of activity β(Edizioni Solfanelli) with our article on the reception of Arthur Machen in Italy via GdT; and βTowards psychedelic maturityβ (AnimaMundi Edizioni), with our speech at the General States of Psychedelic in Italy 2020.
Fulcanelli: "The cult of the Black Madonnas in French cathedrals"
In this excerpt from "The mystery of the cathedrals", written in 1922 and published in 1929, Fulcanelli discusses the enigmatic cult of the Black Virgins in France, listing the cathedrals in which for centuries the cult is officiated.
Direct video: "Antediluvian humanity, giants, gentle", with Gianluca Marletta
Next Wednesday 17 November Gianluca Marletta returns as a guest on our channel. Appointment at 21 to discuss the esoteric history of humanity according to the ancient doctrines centered on belief in cyclical time, from Europe to the Americas.
The gates of winter: β'i cicciβ (the seeds), the meal and the host of the dead
Although in the Italian and European subaltern cultures the beliefs around the survival of the dead cannot be reduced to a single model, it is however possible to trace constants of a morphological and narrative character that delimit the great space of the relationship between living and dead. Here we focus mainly on its cultural and folkloric manifestations in the Campania area, relating to the celebrations of late October / early November and closely connected with the so-called "agrarian mysticism" of which Mircea Eliade wrote.
