Between fertility cults, rebirth eschatologies and observation of the stars: notes on the ancient religion of pre-Christian Europe and on the key rituals of the circle of the year.
Articles by Marco Maculotti:
- The Friulian benandanti and the ancient European fertility cults.
- Metamorphosis and ritual battles in the myth and folklore of the Eurasian populations.
- The festival of Lughnasadh / Lammas and the Celtic god Lugh.
- Cosmic cycles and time regeneration: immolation rites of the 'King of the Old Year'.
- Cernunno, Odin, Dionysus and other deities of the 'Winter Sun'.
- Divinity of the Underworld, the Afterlife and the Mysteries.
- From Pan to the Devil: the 'demonization' and the removal of ancient European cults.
- The archaic substratum of the end of year celebrations: the traditional significance of the 12 days between Christmas and the Epiphany.
- Zalmoxis, Apollo Soranus & le MannerbΓΌnde.
- Lussi, the "Luminosa": the double pagan and "obscure" of Saint Lucia.
- Imbolc, the triple goddess Brigit and the incubation of spring.
- The Sheela-na-Gig and the cult of generative powers in Celtic Christianity.
- Kernunnos: or of the perennial renewal of the cosmos.
- Fragments of a forgotten shamanism: the Piedmontese Masche.
- Fairies, witches and goddesses: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal".
- Joan of Arc, the Fairies and "San Michele".
- Fools, shamans, goblins: liminality, otherness and ritual inversion.
- Guido von List and the magical-religious tradition of the Ariogermans.
Articles by other authors:
- ββ¦ And the steers rose againβ: a disturbing ritual between witchcraft and pagan rituals (M. Centini).
- Mircea Eliade: The Dead and the Seeds, agrarian mysticism and soteriology (extract).
- "May be welcome": rites and traditions of Calendimaggio (Alfredo Cattabiani) (extract).
- Alfredo Cattabiani: "The feast of All Saints and the Celtic New Year" (extract).
- The Krampus, double demonic of San NicolΓ² (Matthew Maculotti).
- Lupercalia: the cathartic celebrations of Februa (A. Modena Altieri).
- The gates of winter: β'i cicciβ (the seeds), the meal and the host of the dead (M. Palmesano).
- The magic of the Mainarde: on the trail of the Janare and the Deer ManΒ (M. Palmesano).
- The Deer Man of the Castelnuovo Carnival and the regeneration of springΒ (M. Palmesano).
- Β On the Sardinian "su nenniri" that binds and heals: the rebirth of wheat and the connection with Tammuz/Adone (C.Zedda).
- Ritual, rhythm and counterrhythm: the case of two Alpine Carnivals (LM Colombo).
- The distant origins of the Sardinian Carnival (A. Massaiu).
- Stories from past worlds: from Samhain to HalloweenΒ (A. Massaiu).
- Sheela Na Gig: The medieval mindset on teaepagan renno (S. Goode, excerpt).
- The Urvolk of megalithic culture and the bell-shaped glass (A. Bonfanti).
- Priapus "unveiled" in an ancient Molise traditionΒ (A.MB).
- "Santa Claus executed", or the eternal return of an immortal rite (F. Zigarelli).
- Germanic Isis (F. Zigarelli).
- The true nature of the Green Man (Obsidian Mirror).
- Of Solstices and Apocalypses: of Saturn and the Golden Age (B. Udai Nath).
- The Amazons and the Origins: on the theory of "primordial matriarchy"Β (D. Perra).
- The myth of concealment in Eurasian traditionsΒ (D. Perra).
- Turan, the land of wolvesΒ (D. Perra).
- RenΓ© GuΓ©non: "On the meaning of carnival festivals"Β (extract).