Tag: Plutarch
The emanations of the "Dark Satellite"
Notes on the dark side of Selene symbolism, from Plutarch's "De facie in orbe lunae" to RenΓ© GuΓ©non and Stanislas de Guaita
Saturn, the Black Sun of the early days
An in-depth analysis of the most ancient sources in our possession leads us to the conclusion that, 'in illo tempore', in a perspective of "stellar symbolism" (and not yet "solar"), Saturn was considered the true King of Heaven.
The "Heavenly Fire": Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus
di Andrew Casella
cover: Jean Delville, Prometheus, 1907)
[Continued fromΒ The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton]
In a Mongolian wedding prayer it is stated that: "Fire was born when Heaven and Earth separated": Therefore, before the celestial equator (Father Heaven) and the ecliptic (mother Earth) moved away (ie the inclination angle of about 23 Β° of the ecliptic with respect to the equator was recorded), the" Fire " did not exist. At the beginning, the Milky Way united heaven, earth and the world of the dead: the southern part of the Galaxy, in correspondence with Scorpio and Sagittarius, is, for many traditions, the place dedicated to the collection of souls waiting to reincarnate.
Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism
di Andrew Casella
cover: "The zodiac and the planets"Β by Bartholomeus Anglicus, taken from De proprietatibus rerum, Ahun 1480
[follows from Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorphΒ eΒ A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse]
To resume the common thread of the images that we introduced in the first two appointments of this cycle, in the light of the previous considerations, it might be useful to quote a passage from Norse mythology.
