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

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


Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient India: The Insights of Brahmagupta and Bhāskara Acārya

Centuries before Galileo and Newton some Indian scholars such as Brahmagupta and Bhāskara Acārya, heirs of the millenary knowledge of the Vedas, they had already theorized the heliocentric model and the force of gravity; and again, calculus, second degree equations and the number zero.

Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism

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.