Tomorrow, Friday 11 November, we will be guests at the historic Arethusa Bookshop in Turin to present our first paperback published with Axis Mundi Edizioni: The Angel of the Abyss. Apollo, Avalon, the Polar Myth and the Apocalypse. Appointment in Via Giolitti 18 starting at 18:00.
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THE ANGEL OF THE ABYSS
What historical role, what worldview and conception of the cosmos had those who didย authorsย classics defined "iatromancers", shamans and ecstatic adepts of the Hyperborean god Apollo, master ofย coincidence oppositorumย and inspirer of the "divine madness" and of the art of mantic? 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 Saint John the Evangelist in the Book ofApocalypseย did he define the "Angel of the Abyss"? And finally, what does the End Times have to do withย IV Eclogueย of Virgil, the "Sibillini 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, the Ogigia where the god Saturn waits in a state of life-in-death the return of the Golden Age of which he is ruler, the Hesperides and the invisibleย Avalon, the "Isle of Apples" where theย Tuatha de Danann, the divine and "shining" lineage of which the Celtic tradition speaks?
MARCO MACULOTTI
Born in Cremona on 14 July 1988. Founder and editorial director of ยซAXIS MUNDIยป, a magazine of the history of religions, anthropology of the sacred, traditional studies, folklore, esotericism and literature of the fantastic (online digital edition since December 2015) and of the newborn home publisher "Axis Mundi Edizioni" for which in August 2021 he published the first paper edition of "AXIS MUNDI", entirely dedicated to the so-called "folk horror" literary and cinematographic genre, of which he signed nine essays and a film dossier , and in November 2022 the second paper register dedicated to the "end of year parties and the end of the cosmic cycle", containing three of his contributions. In February 2021 Mimesis Edizioni published the first long essay of him, Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of "True Detective", a work that met with unanimous attention from critics and audiences, while The Angel of the Abyss. Apollo, Avalon, the Polar Myth and the Apocalypse it came out in March 2022 for Axis Mundi Edizioni, quickly gaining the attention of established historians of religions such as Emanuela Chiavarelli, Luigi Pellini, Nuccio D'Anna and Gaetano Lo Monaco. For the rest, in recent years he has focused particularly on the work of the Welsh writer Arthur Machen, on which he has written seven essays / articles / prefaces published by various publishing houses in collective publications and magazines, and by other writers influenced by themes. folklorists and mythologists such as HP Lovecraft, MR James and G. Meyrink.
