Tag: Valkyrie

On the shoulders of Jรถtnar: interview with Ylenia Oliverio ("Il Bosco di Chiatri", "Vanatrรบ Italia")

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Today we are in the company of Ylenia Oliverio, president of the "Il Bosco di Chiatri" association and above all of the "Vanatrรบ Italia" section, focused on the study and dissemination of the ancient Norse cultic and ritualistic tradition, especially the Seiรฐr and , in fact, Vanatrรบ.

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Terror and Ecstasy: Arthur Machen's "Hill of Dreams"

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Arthur Machen was born on March 3, 1863, one of the greatest writers of Fantastic literature of his time and, together with WB Yeats, one of the most important standard bearers of the so-called ยซCeltic Revivalยป. After having already reviewed on our pages his work before him, "The Great God Pan", We now turn to his third novel," The Hill of Dreams "(1907), perhaps his greatest masterpiece by virtue of the indissoluble union, here as never before, between the two dichotomous aspects of the Sacred in the Gaelic tradition: the terrifying and the ecstatic one.

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