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On the "duende" by Garcรญa Lorca and the "spirit of the earth" by Ernst Jรผnger

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A few notes on the correspondences between the duende, "occult spirit of aching Spain" according to Federico Garcรญa Lorca, and the Jรผngerian "spirit of the earth", with some glimpses of Octavio Paz. In the appendix, a full-bodied extract from the text of the Spanish poet.

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The Virgin of Guadalupe, the Feathered Serpent and the "hidden river" of history

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On the day of the winter solstice of 1531, at thehe hill of Tepeyac, sacred to the goddess Coatlicue, the apparition of a "Lady" who will present herself simultaneously as the Virgin Mary and theย Inninantzin huelneliย (Mother of the Ancient God Quetzalcoatl) diverted the "hidden river" of History in a way that was unthinkable until a few years ago.

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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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