Tag: Dragon

The symbolism of the double serpent and the "guardian of the treasure"

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Within the vast mythical corpus concerning the ophidic symbolism there are some mythologems, recurring all over the world, conveying certain initiatory knowledge whose universality goes beyond the spatial and chronological boundaries, such as that of the double serpent (Caduceus of Mercury, Iga and Pingala), that of the serpent who, standing beneath the worlds or surrounding the earth in the form of Ouroboros, holds the entire cosmic manifestation, and that of the dragon in the function of "Guardian of the treasure" that the hero must subdue and defeat in order to save the "Princess ".

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"The Age of the Serpent": "The snake and the dragon: morphology of the ophidic symbolism"

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Era of the Serpent, second annual publication and seventh total of Italian Sword & Sorcery Book, is on sale in digital format for โ‚ฌ 3,30, with our 40-page essay (40.000+ characters) "The snake and the dragon: morphology of ophidic symbolism", as well as an unpublished story by Andrea Gualchierotti and an essay by Francesco La Manno

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The Sacred Wood of Bomarzo: an initiatory journey

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Visiting the "Parco dei Mostri" of Bomarzo, conceived by Pier Francesco Orsini in memory of his late wife Giulia Farnese and created by Pirro Ligorio, is equivalent to making a real metaphysical journey, stimulated by the numerous hermetic-alchemical suggestions, in the abysses of the human interiority.

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