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The symbolism of the pomegranate

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Let's go to the discovery of the symbolism of the pomegranate in the Mediterranean ecumene between myth, initiation, mysticism and literature: from the Phrygian myth of Cybele and Attis to the Eleusinian Mysteries and the imprisonment of Persephone in Hades, from the symbolism of the biblical Fall to the architectural and Masonic one of the columns of the Jachin and Boaz temple.

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The symbolism of the Spiral: the Milky Way, the shell, the "rebirth"

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di Marco Maculotti

Having analyzed in recent months [cf. Cosmic-agrarian cults of ancient Eurasia] a series of rites, myths and deities connected to the theme of cosmic rebirth, we want in this appointment and in the next ones to focus our attention on some symbols, which we have already mentioned, which archaic man recognized as images capable of eschatologically raising him towards the understanding of this mystery.

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