“What the thunder said”: the influence of the Upaniad on TS Eliot's "Devastated Earth"

Since his college years TS Eliot had immersed himself in the study of the philosophy and thought of India. There Devastated land as well as his other writings, reflect this deep connection with oriental thought, in describing the crisis of the modern world the poet draws on Bhagavadgita and upanisad.

The "Siculi" Magyars and the origins of their mysterious alphabet

Alessandro Bonfanti's study on the Sicilian Magyars of Transylvania continues, this time with an excursus on their enigmatic graphemic system, wrongly mistaken by some scholars for runic. As well as in the previous articles of the series, this time too the Author's analysis will go as far as the Asian steppes.