Tag: Human sacrifices

Nietzsche read by René Girard: sacrifice, violence and the sacred

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A comparison between «archaic sacrificial wisdom» and «Judaeo-Christian demystification» in Genealogy of morals di Nietzsche in the light of the reading of René Girard, centered on the supposed original sacredness of the so-called «victim mechanism» in archaic societies.

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Nocturnal voices at the Sublicio bridge

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Broadcast for the first time on September 24, 1995, the television drama written by Pupi Avati and directed by Fabrizio Laurenti is now twenty-six years old. Let's go over, for the occasion, the esoteric and occult elements that emerge from the vision of the five episodes that compose it.

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The sacrifice of Isaac in Jewish iconography

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Through the biblical episode of the Akedah, better known as the “Sacrifice of Isaac”, the pictorial cycle of the synagogue of Dura Europos testifies to an identity struggle between pagan and Jewish culture. Furthermore, the passage from Genesis XXII throws light on some instances concerning the foundation of the Temple of Jerusalem, and on the sacrifices that were paid within it.

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Bada Valley: the “xenomorphic” megaliths in the jungle

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We visited the island of Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, and ventured into the rainforest of Lore Lindu in search of the mysterious Patung, megalithic sculptures of only partly anthropomorphic aspect which constitute for archaeologists (but also for natives) a real enigma. Taking into account the various hypotheses regarding the cults of ancestors, those of fertility and supposed human sacrifices, we will try to connect them in a framework as coherent as possible.

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