Tag: Babylonians

LIVE VIDEO: โ€œThe mysteries of Inanna. Origins of Alchemyโ€, with Anna Bellon

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Tonight starting at 21pm we will start seasonal live broadcasts on our YouTube channel. We will have Anna Bellon, author of, as a guest The Mysteries of Inanna. Origins of alchemy, published in 2023 by Psiche 2 with a preface by Pietro Mander.

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Mircea Eliade: "Cosmic cycles and history"

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"Even within the framework of the three great Iranian, Jewish and Christian religions, which have limited the duration of the cosmos to a certain number of millennia, and affirm that history will definitively cease in illo tempore, there are traces of the ancient doctrine of the periodic regeneration of history ยป: Very ancient doctrine that Eliade, in his essayโ€œ The myth of the eternal return โ€, finds in the Babylonian, Hindu, Buddhist, Germanic and Hellenic tradition.

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Akฤซtu, the Babylonian New Year, and the updating of the Sacred

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Through the mythical re-actualization of the clash between the god Marduk and the "sea monster" Tiamat, the Akฤซtu was configured, in the final analysis, following the studies of Mircea Eliade, as a collective rite of passage: at the beginning of the new year, through the ritual and recitation of the ancient cosmogonic poem Enรปma Elish, time and space were "refounded".

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