Tag: Dream
At the origins of LaΓΉro, the Salento nightmare sprite
There are those who see in LaΓΉro Salentino, even starting from the etymology, the descendant of the ancient Lare, the Roman domestic spirit. But more generally the points of contact with other supernatural entities of the Mediterranean tradition stand out, from the Nightmare to the Munaciello, from the Genius Cucullato to the Telesforo.
Video: Was HPL an "unconscious medium"? Two shorts on Lovecraft
Was HPL an "unconscious medium" of "alien" powers? On our Youtube channel we started uploading some short videos, which we appropriately edited, to shed light on the issue. In the first of the two we start from the dream experiences that he needed since childhood, while in the second we analyze the "revelational" elements dehis very personal * cosmic mythopoeia.
On the perennial reality of the myth: "The secret wisdom of bees" by Pamela Lyndon Travers
In the essays contained in βWhat the Bee Knows. Reflections on Myth, Symbol and Story ", recently published in Italian by LiberiLibri, Pamela Lyndon Travers witnessed the timeless antiquity of myths and fairy tales, and consequently their perennial reality, interpreting the Gaelic" memory of the blood "that flowed in her veneers, starting from the title of the work: in the Scottish Highlands, in fact, it is recommended to "ask the bees what the Druids once knewΒ».
Fools, shamans, goblins: liminality, otherness and ritual inversion
The peripheral location of the Folle / Buffone / Jester of the medieval era links him, as well as to the archaic Shaman, to other liminal characters of myth and folklore, such as the Wild Man, Harlequin, the Genius Cuckold and more generally to all that category of feral entities connected on the one hand to the demons of vegetation and on the other to the functional sphere of dreams and death. With regard to the rite, the Folle is to be seen connected to the so-called "ritual inversion" that was carried out during the Roman Saturnalia and during all those collective walking rituals of the Charivari type from which the "Feste dei Folli" were born in the Middle Ages. and the modern Carnival.
Coleridge and the case of the "Kubla Khan" dream vision
Β On the dream vision of Samuel T. Coleridge and the composition of "Kubla Khan", a poem left unfinished due to the sudden visit of the mysterious "person from Porlock": an illustrative literary case oflla "other" nature of the poetic inspiration on which, among others, Jorge Luis Borges and Fernando Pessoa have written.
On HP Lovecraft's βRandolph Carterβ: the Dream, Death and the Sublime
Inside βRandolph Carter's declarationβ, a story that will give life to a cycle of stories dedicated to the character, unravels that network of meanings and concepts so dear to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, even if the story itself is only a few pages long.Β
Hieronymus Bosch and the drΓ΄leries
A stranger to the idealizing representation of nature, Bosch established himself in the collective imagination as a painter of dream visions, and so he has in fact been defined over the centuries up to the present day: as a painter of the fantastic and of the dream, or even of the nightmare, painter of the demonic and hell par excellence. Yet his works always refer to another reality, in which the traditional categories of Beauty, Eternity and Sense are (still) present, albeit in a renewed form.
Asclepius: genesis and myth, from hero to god
Genesis of the cult of Asclepius, first a hero-healer and then a divinity of Dream and Medicine in the Hellenic pantheon: from the textile origins to the Homeric and Hesiodic texts.
βTrue Detectiveβ: Rust Cohle's Final Ascension
In view of the release, scheduled for January 14, of the third season of "True Detective", we propose to our readers the cycle of articles we curated for YAWP on the esoteric elements of the successful television series.
Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan
The recent reprint of Arthur Machen's "folk horror" masterpiece allows us to shed light on one of the most fascinating phenomena of "pagan rebirth" in the modern West: the awakening of the Great God Pan in Victorian England, at the turn of the 800th century. and the '900.
HP Lovecraft: "Poetry and the Gods"
Written in collaboration with Anna H. Crofts, "Poetry and the Gods" (1920) combines the Lovecraftian ideal of the Poetic Imagination with romantic devotion to the ancient Gods.
