Tag: anima mundi

The sexual bipolarization, the "feminine" and the advent of human corporeality

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In this new appointment of the cycle of articles โ€œManvantaraโ€ we will investigate the cosmological-traditional meaning of the two sexes, as well as the modalities and consequences connected to their differentiation, with particular regard to the human level.

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โ€œAltiplanoโ€: the pangs of Pachamama and the Anima Mundi

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Brosens and Woodworth's film is much more than a heartfelt appeal to the conservation of our planet's natural resources: in the drama of Saturnina, symbolisms and sacred conceptions of the New and Old World converge, which allow us to address the question on multiple levels intimately connected between They.

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A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse

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di Andrew Casella
cover: William Blake, illustration for Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy

In the first article of this cycle [cf. Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorph], we have said that, at regular intervals, due to the precession, some alternations of constellations occur in the four cardinal points of the year. This is the reason why the sacred texts speak of certain "catastrophes" that determine some "submergence" of an old "earth" and the rise of a new one (at least up to a certain time in history). Each age of the world has its "earth", that is its ecliptic plane, delimited by the equinoxes and solstices, which emerges from the "sea", that is, from the demarcation plane of the celestial equator. When the points of the year are determined by other constellations, a new "earth" rises on the horizon, while the old one sinks below sea level.

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