Purgatory – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

PDF / SLIDES: Parallelisms between Dante's infrworlds and the Indo-Buddhist and shamanic tradition of Asia

Published on: December 10 2021 Last updated on: December 10 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Events, Mito, PDF downloads, History of Religions

We make available for download the slides we used in the two conferences on Dante and the inframondi in the oriental tradition - that of yesterday for UniTreEdu and that of today at the General States of Psychedelia in Italy 2021. The notes are based on our essay with the same title forthcoming in the annual register of the magazine «ARTHOS», n. 30 / year 2021.

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The emanations of the "Dark Satellite"

Published on: June 25 2018 Last updated on: December 11 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, History of Religions

Notes on the dark side of Selene symbolism, from Plutarch's "De facie in orbe lunae" to René Guénon and Stanislas de Guaita

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Hellequin's Masnada: from Wotan to King Arthur, from Herla to Harlequin

Published on: April 25 2018 Last updated on: November 1, 2019 Written by: Judith Failli Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Middle Ages, Mito, History, History of Religions

Second and last part of the overview dedicated to the "mirabilia" in the medieval West, to the mythology of"Army of the dead" and the "Wild Hunt"

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The Marvelous in the Middle Ages: the "mirabilia" and the apparitions of the "exercitus mortuorum"

Published on: April 20 2018 Last updated on: December 26 2018 Written by: Judith Failli Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Middle Ages, Mito, History

An overview of how the Marvelous and the irrational survived the advent of Christianity in popular culture, with a particular focus on the apparitions of the dead and above all of the "furious army", the discussion of which will continue in second part of this comprehensive study

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Jean Markale: the Other World in Druidism and Celtic Christianity

Published on: March 23 2018 Last updated on: November 23, 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Extracts, folklore, Mito, History of Religions

Examination of the French scholar on the beliefs concerning the afterlife in the Druidic-Gaelic tradition and on how, with the advent of Christianity, they resulted in the literature of "navigations" and in the canonization of Purgatory.

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