Tag: Loki
Pinocchio in Scandinavia: the roots of the fable in the Kalevala and in the Edda
Everyone knows "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by the Florentine writer Carlo Collodi; but many are unaware that he used archetypes, episodes and scenes to write himย drawn from the legendary and fabulous heritage of Northern Europe.
Antediluvian, giant, "gentle" humanity
We continue here the discourse on the Andean tradition, previously addressed in the four articles that we have already published on AXIS mundi [cfr. "Andini notebooks", In Ancient America]. In closing, we will also have the opportunity to make some comparisons with other traditions, including Mexican, Hellenic, Celtic and Norse).
di Marco Maculotti
cover: Machu Picchu, photo by the Author
Closely connected to the doctrine of cycles and of pachacutiย [cf. Pachacuti: cycles of creation and destruction of the world in the Andean tradition] is the belief in the existence of ancient proto-human races that populated our planet before the advent of the "Fifth Sun" - races which, as we have seen [cf. Viracocha and the myths of the origins: creation of the world, anthropogenesis, foundation myths], are cyclically eliminated, at the end of each "Great Year", by a catastrophic event, to leave room for the humanity of the next cycle (similar to the Hesiodic myth).