Tag: Jupiter

Of Solstices and Apocalypses: of Saturn and the Golden Age

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Solstitial and "apocalyptic" annotations on the celebration of Christmas and the end of the Year, on the archaic doctrine of the "gates" of the Cosmos and of the Year and on the eschatology of the ancient Sidereal Religion, passing from the Greco-Roman tradition to the Hindu one the Christian one.

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Odhinn and TΓ½r: war, law and magic in the Germanic tradition

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Notes on mythical sovereignty in the Germanic tradition: a comparison between the two divinities (Odhinn and TΓ½r) assigned to the ambit, from the point of view of the "Indo-European functional tripartite division", of the so-called "First function" - in the light of the historical evidence emerging from Tacitus's β€œGermany” and of comparative studies (with the Vedic and Roman traditions) of the French historian of religions Georges DumΓ©zil.

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