Tag: Rig Veda

The suffering of the earth: overpopulation and the myths of depopulation in India, Iran and Greece

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The mythologem of "cosmic weariness" and "earth suffering", which inevitably follows a divine action aimed at depopulating the planet - whether it be a war between gods or a deluge sent from heaven - to balance its irremediably compromised equilibrium, is finds with notable correspondences in different Indo-European traditions, or rather Indo-Mediterranean ones: in India and Iran as well as in ancient Greece, and partly also in the Old Testament tradition.

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The Amazons and the Origins: on the theory of "primordial matriarchy"

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Beyond the prejudices and ideological constraints that over the centuries have compromised the veracity of historical research, it is necessary to reconstruct a theory of the "primordial matriarchy" that proceeds through the comparison of different studies and does not exclude a priori the hermeneutics of myth: here we try to analyze in a comparative way the working hypotheses of JJ Bachofen, Marija Gimbutas and Herman Wirth

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Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism

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di Andrew Casella
cover: "The zodiac and the planets"Β by Bartholomeus Anglicus, taken from De proprietatibus rerum, Ahun 1480

[follows from Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorphΒ eΒ A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse]

To resume the common thread of the images that we introduced in the first two appointments of this cycle, in the light of the previous considerations, it might be useful to quote a passage from Norse mythology.

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