Tag: Gilgamesh

The fruit of infinity: meditations on Venus, the apple and the fig

Published on: Last updated on: Written by: Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, Psychedelia, History of Religions

What is the food of the soul? Or what fruits are born in the garden of the imagination? An adventure through the geography of the psyche, following the red thread of the apple, from that of Adam to that of discord, from the mists of Avalon to the celestial realms where Venus traces her star. An excursion through the heights and winding paths of the world of archetypes.

Keep readingโ€ฆ

The sexual bipolarization, the "feminine" and the advent of human corporeality

Published on: Last updated on: Written by: Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

In this new appointment of the cycle of articles โ€œManvantaraโ€ we will investigate the cosmological-traditional meaning of the two sexes, as well as the modalities and consequences connected to their differentiation, with particular regard to the human level.

Keep readingโ€ฆ

The "Heavenly Fire": Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus

Published on: Last updated on: Written by: Categorized into: Astrotheology, Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

di Andrew Casella
cover: Jean Delville, Prometheus, 1907)

[Continued fromย The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton]

In a Mongolian wedding prayer it is stated that: "Fire was born when Heaven and Earth separated": Therefore, before the celestial equator (Father Heaven) and the ecliptic (mother Earth) moved away (ie the inclination angle of about 23 ยฐ of the ecliptic with respect to the equator was recorded), the" Fire " did not exist. At the beginning, the Milky Way united heaven, earth and the world of the dead: the southern part of the Galaxy, in correspondence with Scorpio and Sagittarius, is, for many traditions, the place dedicated to the collection of souls waiting to reincarnate.

Keep readingโ€ฆ