Tag: Tammuz

On the Sardinian "su nenniri" that binds and heals: the rebirth of wheat and the connection with Tammuz/Adone

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The use of the on nenniriย in Sardinia survives despite its scars and, whether it is a form of vital culture or a residue, it deserves our attention because we are faced with a use as ancient as mankind: one of those gestures that women and men of yesterday they were convinced they could cyclically restore order by rescuing the world from Chaos.

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Astrological Considerations on the Gospel: A Solar-Based Soteriology

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di Andrew Casella
cover: โ€œThe creation of the Sun, the Moon and the starsโ€, ca. 1250-1260


The cycle of articles dedicated to sacred astronomy by Andrea Casella continues. In this appointment and in the one that will follow, the author focuses on the soteriology of the Christian Gospels, identifying the referencesย โ€”ย most of the time now forgotten and therefore misunderstoodย โ€”ย to the ancient astroteological tradition. In this first part we will analyze in a special way the figure of John the Baptist and his relationship with Jesus (especially as regards "baptism") and that of Judas the Iscariot, connected with the constellation of Scorpio.

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The religions of mystery: soteriology of the Mithraic cult and of Attis / Cybele

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(image on the side: affresco representing Mithra killing the bull, XNUMXnd cent. AD, Marino, Italy)

NIn the 50s, the Gnostic documents of Nag Hammadi, found immediately after the war in Egypt, made their entry into the academic world, and the need arose in the field of studies for a reflection on the material available and a rethinking of the categories into which they fell. the so-called mystery cults. The years between the 30s and 40s had already brought new materials and new research hypotheses: studies on patternย or mythical-ritual model inaugurated in England, which still felt the influence of Frazerian comparativism, "by now they were putting the theme of mystery religions in a broader perspective to consider them, one by one, in their ancient roots of national and ethnic religions - Crete, Egypt, Anatolia and the rest of anterior Asia, overcoming the limitation to mystical and soteriological cults of the Hellenistic-Roman age and in particular those relating to divinities of oriental originยปSuch as Mithra (Persia), Isis and Osiris (Egypt, Rome), Cybele and Attis (Anatolia), Aphrodite / Astarte and Adonis (Phenicia, Greece) [From: U. Bianchi, The study of mystery religionsin The soteriology of oriental cults in the Roman Empire, Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Rome 24-28 Sept. 1979].

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