Tag: Agdistis

The symbolism of the pomegranate

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Let's go to the discovery of the symbolism of the pomegranate in the Mediterranean ecumene between myth, initiation, mysticism and literature: from the Phrygian myth of Cybele and Attis to the Eleusinian Mysteries and the imprisonment of Persephone in Hades, from the symbolism of the biblical Fall to the architectural and Masonic one of the columns of the Jachin and Boaz temple.

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From Cybele to Demeter, the different faces of Mother Earth, or rather of the ecliptic

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From the Phrygian tradition concerning Cybele, "goddess of the mountain and wild beasts", to the Indian tradition of Aditi, "inexhaustible source of abundance", up to the different Hellenic divinities such as Rhea, Demeter, Themes, Meti (without forgetting the various collective deities, always feminine, of destiny), an astrotheological reading emerges that can shed light on the aforementioned "Mother Goddesses of the Earth", provided that the latter is understood, following the studies of Santillana, Dechend and Richer (as well as the Platonic clues), in the meaning of ecliptic.

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