Tag: Notre-Dame

β€œIsis in Paris”: notes on the hermetic symbolism of the Notre-Dame Cathedral

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Pulling the strings from Fulcanelli's studies ("The mystery of the cathedrals"), we go to the discovery of the occult symbolism of the most important French Gothic cathedral, a figured "stone book" that in the portals, in the stained glass windows, in the statues is presented as a rare collection of alchemical symbols with multiple mystical, religious and philosophical meanings.

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Kernunnos: or of the perennial renewal of the cosmos

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Primordial epiphany of the giver of life and death, archetypically connected to the dark forces of the natural world, the Celtic Cernunno was not only god of hunting and wild nature, but a real "cosmic god" ruler of the cycle of death-and - rebirth, as evidenced by the symbols attributed to it by traditional iconography: the stage with cervine horns, the torques and the horned snake.

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