Tag: Celtic Revival

Out now! Β«ARTHOSΒ» n.29 / 2020

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Finally, with a little delay due to the health situation, the 2020 register of ARTHOS (n.29 of the new series, Arya Edizioni - OICL), magazine of Traditional Studies founded in 1972 and directed by prof. Renato Del Ponte, on which I begin with a contribution extremely dear to me. Obviously, for me it is an absolute honor to have been invited to collaborate in the annual edition of this magazine which is not very historical to define as historical, and it is doubly so by virtue of the theme of the essay that bears my signature, given that it is a subject to which I personally care a lot: THE WORSHIP OF FAIRY IN CELTIC COUNTRIES: AN ESCATOLOGY OF DEATH AND REBIRTH.

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William Butler Yeats, navigator of the Great Memory

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Going upstream in the opposite direction, WB Yeats became a bard in an age that had banned all poems, forgotten Arcadia, denied and ridiculed the knowledge of the ancient Druids. His entire work - and even before that his entire existence - was consecrated to a Vision, founded on the so-called "Great Memory", a sort of Anima mundi of the Neoplatonists, "reservoir of souls and images and a meeting point between the living and the dead", which the Seer must access to fill theirremediable distance between the ideal and the real, between the divine and the human.

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