by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Dec 4, 2018 | Senza categoria
Curt Sachs states that each circular dance has a magical object in the center. In the case of prehistoric matriarchal cultures in the center lies a pit, but also a bowl, which according to Neumann, is a symbol of the mother’s womb and fertility of the earth. In...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Nov 27, 2018 | Senza categoria
Reading the book “Morphology of the fairy tale” (Vladimir Propp, 1929), my attention was prompted by some passages of 20th century European popular literature, in which we can find the same conception of the tripartite universe (or quadripartite) that...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Nov 15, 2018 | Senza categoria
Like the gesture of the Cosmic Man in which the arms are turned to the sky, even the gesture with the arms open and parallel to the ground, which the French esoteric philosopher Renè Guenon attributes to the Universal Man, is widespread in every time and place. This...
by Gaudenzio Ragazzi | Oct 25, 2018 | Senza categoria
On the rock nr. 50 of the National Park of Naquane (Capodiponte, CCSP relief) two warriors armed with short sword and small shield, adorned with ritual skirt and fringed helmet, dance around (or fight in front of) to another warrior who has his arms up and he is...
