On April 19, 1918, William Hope Hodgson was hit by a shell on the Belgian front and prematurely left this world. We want to remember it like this, speaking of the new publication of Palindrome types,β¦
Tag: Time
"The House on the Abyss" by William Hope Hodgson
A descent into hell turns into a space-time wandering. On the threshold of the twentieth century, the traditional katabasis is now tinged with the gloomy hues of already Einsteinian cosmicism. In a universe that has lost its center for centuries, WH Hodgson tries for the last time to get an overview of the Whole. The vision that he gives us is that of a universe without holds, in perennial decay, dominated by unknown forces that embody chaos and death, anticipating what will be the typical nightmares of HP Lovecraft's sepulchral nihilism.
Shamanic elements in the religions of the Himalayan area and in the Indian sub-continent
An overview of rites and beliefs of shamanic origin in the Indo-Buddhist macro-area of ββCentral Asia and sub-continental India
From Ganesha to Dionysus: dismemberment and (re) integration
From the myth of the beheading of Ganesha to that of Dionysus Zagreus quartered by the Titans, up to some brief mention of the Christian Savior: morphology of the initiatory path of the "Son of the Mother", from the "ritual dismemberment" to (re) integration in non-duality
Cyclical time and linear time: Kronos / Shiva, the "Time that devours everything"
di Marco Maculotti
"It is essential to encounter the problem of time. From the perspective of the doctrine of the Cycles it concerns the dead perhaps more than the living. Time expands in all directions forming a circle, [since] it is cyclic."
- Carl Hentze"What is circular is eternal, and what is eternal is circular."
- Aristotle
