Tag: fairies
Joan of Arc, the Fairies and "San Michele"
Who prayed Joan of Arc on May 30, 1431, when, in the flames of the stake, she was begging her god to welcome her into his kingdom? An emblematic story of pagan survivals, fairy trees and apparitions of angels of light. A fatal destiny, between predestinations to martyrdom, Apollonian ecstasies and heresies.ย
PDF / SLIDES: "Alien Folklore"
As promised during the convention on Sunday evening, we make available to our readers, as an attachment, the slides of our speech on "Alien folklore".
Video: "Alien Folklore"
Online on the Youtube channel the video of our speech a โBEYOND: Ufology & Esotericism. National Conference XNUMXst Edition ", aired last night on the channel of the Society of the Sulfur.
Out now! ยซARTHOSยป n.29 / 2020
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.
"The return of the Star Peoples". The X-Files of the Indian Reserves
Usually, when we talk about UFOs and "alien abductions", we tend to mistakenly consider the phenomenon as exclusively Western, mostly limited to American citizens of European descent. However, on the same US soil, the native Amerindians also live within the reserves have a lot to tell about it, and after decades of silence they opened up with author Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, who has collected their testimonies in some books, including "The return of the Star Peoples", recently translated into Italian by Venexia Editrice.
โFollettianaโ: 14 classic tales from all over the world about fairy beings
The collection of short stories published by ABEditore ranges from the XNUMXth to the early XNUMXth century, with stories that refer to British, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Indian folk traditions.
Marian & "Dame Bianche" appearances
The analysis of the archetypal aspect of the Marian Apparitions beyond the Catholic dogmas allows us to highlight some unexpected and recurring characteristics that seem not to present a solution of continuity with the pre-Christian cults.
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.
Terror and Ecstasy: Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams"
Arthur Machen was born on March 3, 1863, one of the greatest writers of Fantastic literature of his time and, together with WB Yeats, one of the most important standard bearers of the so-called ยซCeltic Revivalยป. After having already reviewed on our pages his work before him, "The Great God Pan", We now turn to his third novel," The Hill of Dreams "(1907), perhaps his greatest masterpiece by virtue of the indissoluble union, here as never before, between the two dichotomous aspects of the Sacred in the Gaelic tradition: the terrifying and the ecstatic one.
The kidnappings of the Fairies and the mystery of the "Missing 411"
Every year dozens of people suddenly disappear in US National Parks, in unexplained situations and without leaving any trace; Detective David Paulides, who for decades has been studying these mysterious cases he defined as "Missing 411", has identified some recurring patterns which, analyzed with an eye to ancient traditions (both European and Native American), bring us back to the folklore beliefs concerning the "water-babies" and other feral entities residing in the "invisible world", to which it is sometimes believed that the human being, willy-nilly, is able to access, sometimes never to return to our world.
Shamanic initiation and the ways of the afterlife in the North American tradition
Similarly to the European tradition, also the North American one recognizes in the period of the winter solstice the "gateway" to the world of the dead and of the spirits and, therefore, the suitable time for youth initiations and masked ceremonies, including the Iroquois one of the โFalse Facesโ and the kwakiutl one of the โCannibal Spiritโ. These beliefs and practices, as well as the analysis of shamanic journeys to the "Village of the Spirits", allow us to understand the doctrines of the native peoples of North America on the various souls that make up the human being and on the relationship entertained by the living with the spirit world. .
Apollo the Destroyer: "coincidentia oppositorum" in hyperborean mysticism and eschatology
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 โ like Blake, Shelley and Yeats - whose Apollonian chrism will appear clearer to us if we analyze their โWeltanschauungโ in the light of the Platonic and Heraclitean doctrines.
Some reflections on "abductions"
Although we are talking about the phenomenon of so-called "alien abductions"ย only from the second half of the last century, some of its characteristics would suggest a certain contiguity with ancient descriptions of experiences that were equally branded as "supernatural".
Towards โTimeWave Zeroโ: Psychedelia and Eschatology in Terence McKenna
In addition to being one of the "prophets" of the psychedelic Counterculture of the second half of the last century, Terence McKenna was able to build, in the course of thirty years of studies and experiments, a real eschatological system for the Third Millennium, in view of final explosion, based on the recovery of shamanic practices, on a new interpretation of the Sacred as "Mysterium Tremendum" and on the vision, beyond the ordinary dichotomy between life and death, of what he called an "Ecology of Souls".
Secret History of New Zealand: From Oral Tradition to Genetic Analysis
From the tradition of the Maori to the semi-forgotten Moors, going back to ethnic and cultural components that flow into the world of Myth: the Patupaiarehe, a "fairy" people of legends, Indian influence, the disconcerting distribution of the sweet potato kumara on both sides shores of the Pacific, Thor Heyerdahl's "thalassocratic" theory ... up to the most modern genetic analyzes.
Fairies, witches and goddesses: "subtle nourishment" and "bone renewal"
An analysis of some beliefs concerning the "subtle nourishment" of witches and fairy beings will lead us to the discovery of a recurring mythology through the millennia, from the archaic times of the shamanic cultures of hunters to the era of inquisitorial processes: that of the so-called "renewal of the bones ".
Stories from past worlds: from Samhain to Halloween
Throughout ancient Europe, the end of the harvest coincided with the feast dedicated to the souls of the deceased: let's see how we came from the Celtic celebration of Samhain to today's Halloween, passing through the Christian feast of All Saints.
Fragments of a forgotten shamanism: the Piedmontese Masche
The study of "magical" practices and folkloric beliefs regarding the Piedmontese Masche opens us some glimpses (not too unexpected) onย Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia.
Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis
The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallรฉe based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtลn ยปBy Filolaoย
