Amazonia – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Cuevas de los Tayos: the Gold of the Gods in the Amazonian subsoil

Published on: January 23 2022 Last updated on: May 27, 2022 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Archeology, Atlas, Esotericism, Characters, History

A little more than half a century ago, at a time when humanity's gaze was looking at space and man's landing on the moon, a small notary's office in Guayaquil was dealing with an issue that pointed in the opposite direction, that is, towards the interior of the Earth. As Neil Armstrong walked the surface of our natural satellite, a taciturn foreigner from Guayaquil had legalized what is perhaps the strangest and most surprising document ever presented to Ecuadorian notaries. Incredible as it may seem, both stories intertwined years later in the depths of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

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Amazonian mirage

Published on: November 23, 2021 Last updated on: November 24, 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Atlas, Cinema and TV, Esotericism, Characters, History

Parallel lives in the history of the exploration of the Amazon: from the conquistadors to Colonel Fawcett, passing through the cinema of Werner Herzog with Klaus Kinski.

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Shamans in the Amazon and "alien abduction": the strange case of Bernardo Peixoto

Published on: May 25, 2021 Last updated on: May 25, 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Atlas, Esotericism, Extracts, folklore, Characters, Shamanism

With the consent of Venexia Editrice, we publish almost entirely chapter 8 of John Mack's book "Passport to the Cosmos" (Italian translation: "Passport to the Cosmos"), focusing on the bizarre experiences of some Brazilian Amazonian tribes in recent decades and their connection with ancient legends and folkloric traditions.

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Thousands of rock paintings dating back to the Ice Age discovered in the Amazon

Published on: December 1 2020 Last updated on: December 5 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Atlas, News

Tens of thousands of paintings in red ocher dating to the last Ice Age, discovered in Colombia on a rock face that stretches for 13 km, shed light on the inhabitants of the Amazon and its incredible megafauna of more than 12.000 years ago. The "Lost Civilization" theorized by Colonel Percy H. Fawcett, which until a century ago seemed like science fiction, seems more and more real.

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Rudyard Kipling's “Brazilian notebooks”

Published on: November 9, 2020 Last updated on: November 14, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Atlas, Characters, Guests Book

In the spring of 1927, the British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling travels to Brazil with his wife and collects his impressions in seven articles originally published for the "Morning Post" and recently translated into Italian by Nuova Editrice Berti.

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The "Atlantic Crossing" and Ernst Jünger's look at Brazil

Published on: October 19, 2020 Last updated on: October 30, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Atlas, Characters, Guests Book

Jüngerian chronicles of a 1936 cruise to South America: the fatal element of the Amazonian "Wildnis" emerges from the Brazilian shops of the German philosopher, the "memory of forms" on which the entire Creation and unconditional love for life is based. oceanic element, vector of the "original song of life that is lulling itself over the times".

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