Tag: Melusine

Ophidic folklore: the "Rainbow Serpent", the Nagas and the fairy Melusina

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Mythical ancestors, cultural heroes, feral entities of the subtle world and supernatural brides: the topos of the ophidic-anthropomorphic mythical entities is widespread throughout the world, and affects both the European tradition (regarding which we will focus above all on the medieval tradition of the Fairy Melusina ), as well as extra-European traditions such as the Indian one of the Nagas, "serpent people" residing in the world below ours, that of the Hopi and that of the Australian aborigines.

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Terror and Ecstasy: Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams"

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Arthur Machen was born on March 3, 1863, one of the greatest writers of Fantastic literature of his time and, together with WB Yeats, one of the most important standard bearers of the so-called ยซCeltic Revivalยป. After having already reviewed on our pages his work before him, "The Great God Pan", We now turn to his third novel," The Hill of Dreams "(1907), perhaps his greatest masterpiece by virtue of the indissoluble union, here as never before, between the two dichotomous aspects of the Sacred in the Gaelic tradition: the terrifying and the ecstatic one.

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"The Age of the Serpent": "The snake and the dragon: morphology of the ophidic symbolism"

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Era of the Serpent, second annual publication and seventh total of Italian Sword & Sorcery Book, is on sale in digital format for โ‚ฌ 3,30, with our 40-page essay (40.000+ characters) "The snake and the dragon: morphology of ophidic symbolism", as well as an unpublished story by Andrea Gualchierotti and an essay by Francesco La Manno

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