Tag: Virgin

โ€œAltiplanoโ€: the pangs of Pachamama and the Anima Mundi

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Brosens and Woodworth's film is much more than a heartfelt appeal to the conservation of our planet's natural resources: in the drama of Saturnina, symbolisms and sacred conceptions of the New and Old World converge, which allow us to address the question on multiple levels intimately connected between They.

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The Virgin of Guadalupe, the Feathered Serpent and the "hidden river" of history

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On the day of the winter solstice of 1531, at thehe hill of Tepeyac, sacred to the goddess Coatlicue, the apparition of a "Lady" who will present herself simultaneously as the Virgin Mary and theย Inninantzin huelneliย (Mother of the Ancient God Quetzalcoatl) diverted the "hidden river" of History in a way that was unthinkable until a few years ago.

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The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton

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di Andrew Casella
cover: Sidney Hall, representation of the Virgo constellation, taken from "Urania's Mirror", 1825)

(follows fromย Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism)

All the peoples of the world sang of a mythical "first time" of abundance, in which the gods walked the earth and all things were in harmony. The myth of the Golden Age fascinated poets from remote antiquity to the times of the Renaissance. Basically, it was believed to be a time of material wonders, in which the bodily well-being of men was guaranteed by the natural and infinite flow of milk and honey. But are things really as the poets sang? What was the Golden Age really? The poets themselves, on the other hand, have preserved (consciously or not) some revelatory clues to the mystery, which refer, once again, to the celestial vault.

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