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The Wild Man's Tomb

Legends and popular traditions about the figure of the Wild Man are widespread throughout the Alps [which we will have the opportunity to analyze on Wednesday evening together with Massimo Centini on our YouTube channel]. Thanks to this report by GM Mollar we discover that on the bottom of the Lanzo valley, in Piedmont, there is even what, according to local folklore, would be his tomb: let's go and see precisely what the legend that has been transmitted to us tells us through the ages.

"Et in Arcadia Ego": the secret Mission of the other Europe (I)

There is an ancient nobility of the Languedoc that for centuries has pursued a political-esoteric mission inspired by the Arcadian myth of the Golden Age, the kingdom of Saturn: to create an Oasis of Peace in Europe, overcoming the hated diarchy of throne and altar. The evidence of this mission can be found scattered throughout the history of Europe starting from the foundation of the Merovingian monarchy until the Second World War, and can be found in all the main socio-political and religious events that we will identify in our study..

Kernunnos: or of the perennial renewal of the cosmos

Primordial epiphany of the giver of life and death, archetypically connected to the dark forces of the natural world, the Celtic Cernunno was not only god of hunting and wild nature, but a real "cosmic god" ruler of the cycle of death-and - rebirth, as evidenced by the symbols attributed to it by traditional iconography: the stage with cervine horns, the torques and the horned snake.

The symbolism of the double serpent and the "guardian of the treasure"

Within the vast mythical corpus concerning the ophidic symbolism there are some mythologems, recurring all over the world, conveying certain initiatory knowledge whose universality goes beyond the spatial and chronological boundaries, such as that of the double serpent (Caduceus of Mercury, Iga and Pingala), that of the serpent who, standing beneath the worlds or surrounding the earth in the form of Ouroboros, holds the entire cosmic manifestation, and that of the dragon in the function of "Guardian of the treasure" that the hero must subdue and defeat in order to save the "Princess ".

The "Son of the Moon": the two faces of Jack Parsons

On the one hand, with his research on the propulsion systems of space rockets, he made a fundamental contribution to the space race; on the other hand, thanks to his esoteric knowledge and the meeting with Aleister Crowley, he devoted himself to occult practices such as the infamous "Operation Babalon": we present Jack Parsons, the "mad scientist" who used to sing the "Hymn to Pan "Just before his missile tests.

On the "duende" by GarcΓ­a Lorca and the "spirit of the earth" by Ernst JΓΌnger

A few notes on the correspondences between the duende, "occult spirit of aching Spain" according to Federico GarcΓ­a Lorca, and the JΓΌngerian "spirit of the earth", with some glimpses of Octavio Paz. In the appendix, a full-bodied extract from the text of the Spanish poet.

Arthur Machen and the awakening of the Great God Pan

The recent reprint of Arthur Machen's "folk horror" masterpiece allows us to shed light on one of the most fascinating phenomena of "pagan rebirth" in the modern West: the awakening of the Great God Pan in Victorian England, at the turn of the 800th century. and the '900.

β€œPicnic at Hanging Rock”: an Apollonian allegory

Our analysis of Peter Weir's cult film, making use of the interpretative tools of the anthropology of the Sacred, in particular: the Sacred as "Totally Other" according to Rudolf Otto; the "breaking of level", the "suspension of time" and the theme of access to the Other World by Mircea Eliade; Apollonian symbolism according to the studies of Giorgio Colli.

Lupercalia: the cathartic celebrations of Februa

by Ascanio Modena Altieri
originally published on The Dissident Intellectual

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The first rays of the civilization of Rome and of the Italian national myth begin their grandiose work among the districts of the Earth. The Palatine Hill is home to the she-wolf, the nurse, savior of the divine couple of infants from the waters of the Tiber and from the evil king of Alba Longa Amulio. On the slopes of the future Colle dei Principi, with tall oaks and fabulous woods, is the Lupercale, the mythical cave, home of the fatal fair, where the blood of the prey and the milk of the breasts mix in a combination of colors that, between a few centuries, it will become an imperishable ritual and celebratory imprint. However, aids to the auspicious destiny could not be delayed: the consanguineous shepherds, Faustulus and Plistinus, found the two nobles in swaddling clothes and, with the sacred consent of the feminine beast, decided to take the two to their hut on the hill, ready one day, to tell which most dignified blood is what gushes in their veins. In the beginning it was Acca Larenzia, wife of Faustolo, who took care of the children of the God Mars and of Rhea Silvia, in the house on the Palatine, until the two appropriated, in different ways, the already marked fate.

From Pan to the Devil: the 'demonization' and the removal of ancient European cults

di Marco Maculotti
cover: Arnold BΓΆcklin, β€œPan, the Syrinx-Blowing”, 1827

We have previously had the opportunity to see that, in the first centuries of our era and even during the medieval era, the cd. "Rural paganism" it kept its diffusion unchanged, especially in the areas further away from the large inhabited centers. St. Maximus noted that "in the fourth century (...) the first missionaries passed from city to city and rapidly spread the Gospel over a very large area, but they did not even touch the surrounding countryside", Then adding that" even in the fifth and sixth centuries, when most of them had long since been converted, in Gaul and Spain the Church, as shown by the repeated canons of the councils of the time, encountered great difficulty in suppressing the ancient rites with which peasants from time immemorial averted plagues e they increased the fertility of the flocks and fields"[AA Barb, cit. in Centini, p.101].