Tag: Norsemen

On the shoulders of JΓΆtnar: interview with Ylenia Oliverio ("Il Bosco di Chiatri", "VanatrΓΊ Italia")

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Today we are in the company of Ylenia Oliverio, president of the "Il Bosco di Chiatri" association and above all of the "VanatrΓΊ Italia" section, focused on the study and dissemination of the ancient Norse cultic and ritualistic tradition, especially the SeiΓ°r and , in fact, VanatrΓΊ.

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The Waves of Destiny: The Tales of the North Seas by Jonas Lie

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Thanks to the Dagon Press, the disturbing stories "Weird Tales from the Northern Seas" (1893) by the Norwegian writer Jonas Lie are finally available in Italian, entirely inspired by Nordic folklore: stories focused on meeting "other" entities such as the draug and the supernatural bride, as well as on the sea as a symbol of the mystery and invincible forces of nature.

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The possible connections between "Twin Peaks" and Germanic mythology

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Already previously we had analyzed the esoteric elements of the successful television series by David Lynch & Mark Frost: in this new appointment we will focus specifically on the influences, identifiable in β€œTwin Peaks”, deriving from the Norse and Celtic tradition.

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Guido von List and the magical-religious tradition of the Ariogermans

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Wotan's wisdom is knowledge, magic and poetry at the same time. He not only knows the mysteries of the Nine Worlds and the order of their lineages, but also the destiny of men and the fate of the universe itself. Perhaps this is why He, unique among the Ases, was able to give a spiritual conscience to the human being: because, by accessing the supreme communion with the Great Mystery, and learning the secrets of the alphabet of the cosmos, He was able to synthesize all and seven spirits of the Aesis in a single spiritual entity, what the ancient Greeks called pneuma. With this magical act Wotan, according to Logos, originated from himself the third Logos, the one who has the power to give spiritual Life to the human being, just as the second Logos self-generated from the First.

At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using an approach halfway between the anthropological and the occult, the Viennese scholar Guido von List attempted a reconstruction of the Germanic Urgrund, analyzing the more esoteric aspects of the cosmogony and pre-Christian religion of the ancient Central European peoples .

di Marco Maculotti

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