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EVERY SOUL IS A STAR — 3) Franco Battiato

Published on: March 23 2023 Last updated on: March 23 2023 Written by: Flavio Margotti Categorized into: Characters, astrological profiles

In this new appointment of the column "Every soul is a star" we analyze astrologically the birth chart of Franco Battiato (1945-2021) through his biographical elements and the verses of his wisdom poetry.

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The esoteric Rilke of the "Sonnets to Orpheus"

Published on: February 20 2021 Last updated on: January 1 2023 Written by: Livia Di Vona Categorized into: Esotericism, Philosophy, Mito, Characters, Poetry, Guests Book

Composed in February 1922 as a funeral monument to Wera Ouckama Knoop, a young woman who passed away at the premature age of nineteen, the "Sonnets a Orpheus" by the Austrian poet of Bohemian origin Rainer Maria Rilke still speak to us today, after a century, in the "Language of eternity in which the dead make themselves a gift by nourishing the earth", revealing to us the indissoluble intertwining between death and life.

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From the shaman to the raver: electronic music between primitivism and ecstasy

Published on: October 14, 2018 Last updated on: May 6, 2019 Written by: Robert Siconolfi Categorized into: Anthropology, Psychedelia

An anthropological reflection on the collective enjoyment of electronic music and on the phenomenon of "raves": from the ritualistic tribalism of the group to the "invasion", from the "death of the ego" to the ecstatic possibility.

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Marius Schneider: "The gods are songs"

Published on: April 10 2018 Last updated on: November 25, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Extracts, Mito, History of Religions

The peculiar archetypal-symbolic vision of the German philologist and musicologist Marius Schneider is splendidly enclosed in this first chapter of "La musica primitiva" (1960) in which the divine forces are seen, through the meticulous analysis of the origin myths of the most varied traditions, primarily as "sound powers".

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