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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus in the Wind

Published on: July 8 2020 Last updated on: 10 September 2020 Written by: Stefano Eugenio Bona Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Mito, Characters, Poetry

8/7/1822 - 8/7/2020: almost two centuries from the drowning of Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose figure immediately became admired and venerated by the most restless spirits. The Prometheus who steals fire to give it to men, found in the English poet a version at the extremes of high ideality, in the name of a radical social and spiritual renewal. An unrepeatable season, here told through little-known sides of ours and through the profound influence on personalities very distant from each other, such as d'Annunzio, Crowley and Carducci.

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Blood Metaphysics

Published on: March 18 2020 Last updated on: November 11, 2020 Written by: Robert Eusebius Categorized into: Anthropology, Christianity, Esotericism, folklore, Mito, History, History of Religions

Blood has always been considered, in the history of ideas, the vector of a powerful magical force and the vehicle of a complex and varied symbolism, starting with the rock paintings dating back to the Paleolithic to reach the three "book" religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), passing through the cosmogonic myths of ancient traditions (Babylonian, Hindu, Norse, etc.), obviously without neglecting its use in traditional oriental medicine and its sacrificial value within ceremonial practices.

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Goddesses and women of the ancient Mediterranean

Published on: 8 September 2018 Last updated on: 12 September 2018 Written by: Ascanio Modena Altieri Categorized into: Anthropology, Mito, History, History of Religions

Brief retrospective on the Sacred Feminine in the ancient Mediterranean, between numinous archetypes and the social context.

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