Tag: Underground world
Live video: βThe myth of Agartha & Shambhalaβ, with Paolo Dolzan
Tomorrow evening at 21:00 on our YouTube channel the third live video of this month will be broadcast. After Paula Giovetti e Massimo Centini, at this tour we will have the pleasure of hosting Paolo Dolzan, creator of the site and channel "The Tetanus of the Fifth Race", to discuss the myth of agartha e shambhala in the occult and alternate reality of the last century and a half.
Live video: βRemembering Lemuria. Life, Visions & Obsessions of Richard S. Shaver β, with Francesco Cerofolini
Wednesday night at 21:00 will air on the our YouTube channel the seventh appointment of our summer series of conferences. This time Francesco Cerofolini, a scholar of "alternative reality" and the greatest Italian expert on the so-called, will be with us "Mystery Shaver", which he has already talked about on our pages.
The Altaic exploration of Nicholas Roerich in search of Belovodye, "the Land of the Living Gods"
Among the places visited by Nicholas Roerich during his Asian expeditions in the 20s, a special mention goes to the area of ββthe Altai Mountains, where the Russian painter and explorer went in search of the mythical Belovodye, underground "Land of the Immortals" equivalent to Himalayan Shamballah, where according to legend the mysterious Chud lineage was hidden in an antediluvian past, and from which it is believed that in the near future the holy Oirot Khan, last descendant of Genghis Khan and "Savior of the World", will come.
Science and fantasy: βEtidorhpaβ, John Uri Lloyd's Hollow Earth
In John Uri Lloyd's "Etidorhpa" the passage from the materialistic nineteenth century to the quantum twentieth century is condensed, ambiguous and relativistic, under the banner of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: a century in which the fantastic resurrects in the heart of that same science that had naively believed to exorcise him.
Underworld civilization in science fiction fiction
The topos of underground civilizations seems to be recurrent in the history of human thought, whether it is myth, folklore, esoteric knowledge, alternative reality or "simple" science fiction, to the point that sometimes it is difficult to label the various versions of the topos in a rather category. than in the other. Here we will deal with the variations of the topos in science fiction literature between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
βI remember Lemuria!β: The Shaver Mystery, a myth for the atomic age
Brought to the fore by the pulp magazine "Amazing Stories", directed by Ray Palmer, in the 40s of the last century, the "Mystery Shaver" is still remembered today as one of the most controversial and influential chapters of the vein - halfway between occultism and science fiction - of the so-called βAlternative Realityβ.
"Underground" civilizations in myth, occultism and "alternative reality"
Simultaneously with the publication of our article on "Underworld Civilizations in Fantastic Literature" appeared in Cosmic Dimension, we have drawn up here a brief excursus on the same topos in the sacred traditions, in the esoteric sphere and in the "alternative reality" of the twentieth century
Antediluvian, giant, "gentle" humanity
We continue here the discourse on the Andean tradition, previously addressed in the four articles that we have already published on AXIS mundi [cfr. "Andini notebooks", In Ancient America]. In closing, we will also have the opportunity to make some comparisons with other traditions, including Mexican, Hellenic, Celtic and Norse).
di Marco Maculotti
cover: Machu Picchu, photo by the Author
Closely connected to the doctrine of cycles and of pachacutiΒ [cf. Pachacuti: cycles of creation and destruction of the world in the Andean tradition] is the belief in the existence of ancient proto-human races that populated our planet before the advent of the "Fifth Sun" - races which, as we have seen [cf. Viracocha and the myths of the origins: creation of the world, anthropogenesis, foundation myths], are cyclically eliminated, at the end of each "Great Year", by a catastrophic event, to leave room for the humanity of the next cycle (similar to the Hesiodic myth).
The Underground Kingdom (F. Ossendowski, "Beasts, Men, Gods")
(Taken from FA Ossendowski, Β«Beasts, Men, Gods: the mystery of the King of the World", Postal Code. XLVI)
Mongolia, with its bare and terrible mountains, its boundless plains scattered with the lost bones of the ancestors, gave birth to the Mystery. His people, frightened by the stormy passions of Nature or lulled by his death-like peace, feel the mystery of him. His "Red" and "Yellow" LamasΒ they preserve and make its mystery poetic. The Popes of Lhasa and Urga know it and possess it. I met the "Mystery of Mysteries" for the first time while traveling through Central Asia, and I cannot give it any other name. At first I did not give it much attention and I did not give it the importance that I subsequently realized it deserved, I only realized it after I had analyzed and compared many sporadic, vague and often contradictory clues. The elders on the bank of the Amyl River told me an ancient legend according to which a certain Mongolian tribe in their escape from the pretensions of Genghis Khan had hidden in an underground country. Later a Soyot who came from near the lake of Nogan Kul showed me the smoking door which serves as the entrance to the "Kingdom of Agharti". Through this door a hunter in the past had entered the Kingdom and, after his return, began to tell what he had seen there. The Lamas cut off his tongue to prevent him from telling the Mystery of Mysteries. Reaching old age, he returned to the entrance of this cave and disappeared into the underground kingdom, the memory of which had adorned and illuminated his nomadic heart. I received more realistic information on this from Hutuktu Jelyb Djamsrap in Narabanchi Kure. He told me the story of the semi-realistic arrival of the mighty King of the World from the underworld, of his appearance, his miracles and his prophecies; and only then did I begin to understand that in that legend, hypnosis or mass vision, whatever it was, hides not only the mystery but a realistic and powerful force capable of influencing the course of political life in Asia. Since that time I have started to carry out some investigations. Prince Chultun Beyli's favorite Gelong Lama and the prince himself gave me an account of the underground kingdom.
