โ€œWhat the thunder saidโ€: the influence of the Upaniแนฃad 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.

Arcane Italy: the hypogeum of Piagge and the Mithraic Mysteries

In Piagge, in the scattered town of Terre Roveresche in the Marche region, the recent discovery of this hypogeum becomes an opportunity for a journey into hermetic symbolism. An extraordinary and unique place of its kind that leads the visitor to experience the atmosphere of ancient initiation rites.

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".