Tonight from 21 pm on the YouTube channel of La Società dello Zolfo ("La Nona Porta" section) we will have the pleasure of presenting the first paperback just published with Axis Mundi Edizioni.
"THE NINTH DOOR"
(The Sulfur Society)
It presents:
“THE ANGEL OF THE ABYSS.
Apollo, Avalon, the Polar Myth and the Apocalypse "
by Marco Maculotti
What historical role, what vision of the world and conception of the cosmos did those whom the classical auctores defined as "Iatromanti", shamans and ecstatic adepts of the Hyperborean god Apollo, master of coincidentia oppositorum and inspirer of divine madness and the art of mantica?
Because in the imposing fresco of the Sistine Chapel depicting the Last Judgment Michelangelo painted, in the face of Christ-Judge, the features of the ancient Hellenic god of Light and Prophecy that St. John the Evangelist in the Book of Revelation defined the Angel of the Abyss ?
And finally, what does the End of Times have to do with Virgil's IV Eclogue, the Sibylline Oracles, the Sacred Line of San Michele and the countless legends about the Blessed Islands located at the extreme northern and western borders of the world, such as the Apollonian Hyperborea, Ogigia where the god Saturn awaits in a state of life-in-death the return of the Golden Age, the Hesperides and the invisible Avalon, the Isle of Apples where the Tuatha dé Danann, the lineage divine and "shining" of the Celtic tradition?
All this will be treated in this conference to present the first editorial work of Axis Mundi Edizioni. At the end of the intervention, as usual, there will be a space for your questions.
MARCO MACULOTTI
Publisher and writer, he was born in Cremona in 1988 and graduated in Milan. He is the founder and director of "AXIS mundi" - online magazine of culture, anthropology of the sacred, history of religions, esotericism, folklore, literature of the fantastic, founded in 2015 - and of the related publishing house Axis Mundi Edizioni, founded in 2021. He published in various journals of traditional and literary studies, both printed ("Atrium", "Arthos", "Lovecraftian Studies", "Zothique", "Cosmic Dimension", "Il Corriere Metapolitico"), and digital. Per Mimesis released in February 2021 Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detective, while in August 2021 he published with Axis Mundi Edizioni the first annual paper register, dedicated to the “folk-horror” literary and cinematographic genre, which includes nine of his contributions. Articles-reportage on the Andean sacral and shamanic tradition have been published in "Golem" and "Atrium", for which he also wrote a long essay on the Javanese temple complex of Borobudur, while for "Arthos" he published two substantial essays on the cult of Fairies in the British Isles and on the parallels between Dante's infrworlds and the Asian tradition. In the literary field in recent years he has concentrated above all on the Welsh writer Arthur Machen, on whose work he has published seven essays / articles / prefaces for as many printed publications, but he has also published comments on HP Lovecraft, MR James and G. Meyrink. In his spare time he delights in writing Lovecraftian / Machenian short stories, three of which have been published in collective collections and a fourth received a special mention in the 2020 edition of the “Hypnos Award”.
