"Et in Arcadia Ego": the secret Mission of the other Europe (I)

There is an ancient nobility of the Languedoc that for centuries has pursued a political-esoteric mission inspired by the Arcadian myth of the Golden Age, the kingdom of Saturn: to create an Oasis of Peace in Europe, overcoming the hated diarchy of throne and altar. The evidence of this mission can be found scattered throughout the history of Europe starting from the foundation of the Merovingian monarchy until the Second World War, and can be found in all the main socio-political and religious events that we will identify in our study..

โ€œPicnic at Hanging Rockโ€: an Apollonian allegory

Our analysis of Peter Weir's cult film, making use of the interpretative tools of the anthropology of the Sacred, in particular: the Sacred as "Totally Other" according to Rudolf Otto; the "breaking of level", the "suspension of time" and the theme of access to the Other World by Mircea Eliade; Apollonian symbolism according to the studies of Giorgio Colli.