Time and cosmic cycles

This section lists the articles that analyze the history of religions and the experience of the sacred by investigating the mystery of time and cosmic cycles.

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Articles by Marco Maculotti:

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• The doctrine of the Eternal Return of the same: from Berosus to Eliade.
• Cyclical time and linear time: Kronos / Shiva, the "Time that devours everything".
• Apollo / Kronos in exile: Ogygia, the Dragon, the "fall".
• Apollo the Destroyer: "coincidentia oppositorum" in hyperborean mysticism and eschatology.
• Cosmic cycles and time regeneration: immolation rites of the 'King of the Old Year'.
• The "myths of emergence" in the traditions of Native Americans.
• Pachacuti: cycles of creation and destruction of the world in the Andean tradition.
• The symbolism of the Spiral: the Milky Way, the shell, the "rebirth".
• The double spiral and the double movement of emanation and reabsorption of the cosmos.
• Kernunnos: or of the perennial renewal of the cosmos.
• The symbolism of the double serpent and the "guardian of the treasure".
• The "revival" of Astrology in the 900s according to Eliade, Jünger and Santillana.
• “At the wall of time”: the question of history and the crisis of the modern world.
• “At the wall of time”: Ernst Jünger's prophecies about the Age of the Titans.
• The primordial and triple god: esoteric and iconographic correspondences in ancient traditions.

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Articles by Andrea Casella:

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• Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorph.
• A Science in Tatters: Survival of the Doctrines of Cyclic Time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse.
• Stellar symbolism and solar symbolism.
• The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton.
• The "Heavenly Fire": Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus.
• Astrological Considerations on the Gospel: A Solar-Based Soteriology.
• Astrological considerations on the Gospel: the Passion and the Resurrection.
• Saturn, the Black Sun of the early days.
• From Cybele to Demeter, the different faces of Mother Earth, or rather of the ecliptic.
• The cosmological meaning of the laughter of the gods: on the myth of Baubò and its surroundings.

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Articles by Michele Ruzzai ("MANvantara"):

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• The end of the primordial age and the "Fall of Man".
• The Eternal Man and the Cosmic Cycles.
• The Pole, the incorporation, the Androgyne.
• The Demiurge and the Negative Possibility: Fall.
• The Demiurge and the positive possibility: shaping.
• The Second Half of the Paradise Age: Some Preliminary Concepts.
• The sexual bipolarization, the "feminine" and the advent of human corporeality.
• North-South: the first human dichotomy and the separation of the southern branch.
• Arctic homeland or "Mother Africa"?
• The ancient roots of the Indo-Europeans.

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Articles by other authors:

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• Of Solstices and Apocalypses: of Saturn and the Golden Age (B. Udai Nath).
• The question of the three Floods in the Hellenic tradition (G. Acerbi).
• Uttara Kuru, the Boreal Paradise in Indian cosmography and art (G. Acerbi).
• The suffering of the earth: overpopulation and the myths of depopulation in India, Iran and Greece (R. Ronzitti).
• Lo-Shu and the labyrinth (R.Milazzi).
• Hendaye's Cyclical Cross: a coded calendar? (PV Formichetti).
• The Dogon and the Sotian calendar (A. Bonifacio).
• Pluto and the transits of the times (Hiranya Mriga).
• The emanations of the "Dark Satellite" (R. Giorgetti).
• From Ganesha to Dionysus: dismemberment and (re) integration (B. Udai Nath).
• Akītu, the Babylonian New Year, and the updating of the Sacred (M. Ginex).
• The symbolism of the two solstices, from two-faced Janus to the two Johns (S. Salandra).
• The interiority is formed in chronospheres (A. Mazzi).
• We do not live in time, but in "chronospheres" (A. Mazzi).
• “Fossil Legend”: fossils and early North American geomythology (F. Cerofolini).
• The “Omega Point”: where Mircea Eliade and Teilhard de Chardin meet (Marco Martini).
• Esoteric and exoteric characteristics of the Occultation of the Mahdi in Shiite eschatology (A. Bonifacio).
• Devotion: the sunset of the idols and the Waldgänger trail (L. Taurus).
• HP Lovecraft, the "lost worlds" and Theosophy (M. Gurzo).
• The “Hamlet's Mill”: the archaic language of myth and the structure of time (G. De Santillana; extract)
• G. de Santillana: “History to be rewritten”. Reflections on "Ancient Fate" and "Modern Affliction" (extract).
• Mircea Eliade: "Cosmic cycles and history" (extract).
• Mircea Eliade: The Dead and the Seeds, agrarian mysticism and soteriology (extract).
• René Guénon: "The symbolism of the Zodiac in the Pythagoreans" (extract).
• Arturo Reghini: "The myth of Saturn in Western Tradition" (extract + full PDF).
• Hans Hörbiger: The Cosmic Ice Theory (extract).