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The suffering of the earth: overpopulation and the myths of depopulation in India, Iran and Greece

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The mythologem of "cosmic weariness" and "earth suffering", which inevitably follows a divine action aimed at depopulating the planet - whether it be a war between gods or a deluge sent from heaven - to balance its irremediably compromised equilibrium, is finds with notable correspondences in different Indo-European traditions, or rather Indo-Mediterranean ones: in India and Iran as well as in ancient Greece, and partly also in the Old Testament tradition.

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The Iranian rite of Ashura, between religion and politics

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During the ashura ceremony, the Shiites mythically refer to the exemplary self-sacrifice of the third Imam Husayn by inserting him in the cosmological context of the cosmic war, of Madzeist derivation, among the principles of good against evil; then a continuous union between the political and religious spheres, the boundaries between the two are becoming more and more confused, and the religious dimension justifies the political sentiment, while the local sentiment leads to a global drama.

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Shamanic aspects in the cult of Ganesha, the elephant-headed goddess

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Starting from Airฤvata and the mythology of the "blending of the Ocean of Milk" and then reaching Ganesha, Giuseppe Acerbi aims to identify some esoteric correspondences between the elephant-headed divinities of ancient India, Iran, Japan and the Americas.

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The myth of concealment in Eurasian traditions

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Brief excursus along the historical, philosophical and religious path through which the theme of the concealment of the divine in the great Eurasian space developed: a theme that once again demonstrates the primordial spiritual unity of this vast inner continent

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