Tag: Aristaeus

Apollo the Destroyer: "coincidentia oppositorum" in hyperborean mysticism and eschatology

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Although mostly considered in his "luminous" and "uranic" meaning, in the archaic tradition Apollo combines the most extreme dichotomies in his mystical and eschatology: the bow and the lyre, wisdom and "mania", depth and elevation, the catabasis and the journey in spirit to the White Island, the "Fall" of Being and the return of the Golden Age. Starting from ancient sources, we can find similar concepts not only to those of North Asian shamanism and Celtic spirituality, but even to the sacred vision of some modern poets — like Blake, Shelley and Yeats - whose Apollonian chrism will appear clearer to us if we analyze their “Weltanschauung” in the light of the Platonic and Heraclitean doctrines.

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Sacredness, myth and divinity in the civilization of the ancient Sardinians

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The chosen land of a heroic and warrior elite who lived pervaded by the dimension of the Sacred, Sardinia can rightly be counted among the most important spiritual centers of antiquity: the aim of this study is to reconstruct through the lenses of history, of myth and tradition the development of the ancestral Sardinian ethnos and its culture

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