Drum – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Abraxas, or on escaping from the cosmic prison

Published on: June 10 2021 Last updated on: June 10 2021 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Christianity, Esotericism, Mito, Guests Book, History of Religions

In their new book, "Abraxas: the magic of the drum. The forgotten cult of the cosmic god from shamanism to gnosis", released in March for Mimesis, Paolo Riberi and Igor Caputo investigate the figure of the god / demon Abraxas, halfway between that of the Demiurge of the Gnostic and Platonic cosmogony and that of the aeonic god who connects the various levels of the cosmic manifestation.

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Folklore, shamanism and “witchcraft” among the Inuit of the Arctic

Published on: November 15, 2018 Last updated on: November 15, 2018 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Anthropology, Extracts, folklore, Shamanism, History of Religions

Journey to discover the mythical tradition, folklore beliefs and animistic-shamanic practices of the native populations of the Arctic area.

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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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