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Il culto dei gatti in India. Continuità ed evoluzione di credenze e pratiche religiose dall’India vedica all’India contemporanea
2019
Cat as an animal is a sporadic presence in Vedic mythology and Brahmanic works on rituals, while it appears in a few cult practices of contemporary popular religiosity in India. This article holds that in Indian devotional practices, the cat is conceived as an animal with an ambiguous nature. It also suggests that the cat cult is linked with the need to tame chaos, violence, and con$ict, and to place them in a controlled, orderly, and pacified cosmos. To understand these phenomena, this article studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective, contemporary religious practices in the light of the Indian tradition, and suggests that the cat cult was subject to substantial Brahmanization.
Oltre la ricerca del Graal, il divenire del mito
2014
A mythologist's study of the Graal cultural tradition. Using Francesco Zambon's recent Metamorfosi del Graal as his starting point, the author undertakes an analysis on the importance of the Graal in Western mystical, philosophical and literary traditions throughout time, from the impact of the medieval Graal stories on the matière de Bretagne and beyond (Troyes, Boron), to the appeal of this myth in modern times, including its occurrence on Richard Wagner, Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco.
Aksamala. Studi di indologia
2016
Indological Studies about Vedic and Indian Myths, Anthropology, History of Religions, Philosophy
Visiting the King of the World
2009
Apsilankymas pas Pasaulio karalių – tai tema, kuri bent paviršutiniškai supažindina su egzistuojančiais daugiau ar mažiau ezoteriniais pasakojimais, kartais net gana fantastiškais, kuriuose kalbama apie viršžmogiškosiomis galiomis apdovanotas būtybes, gyvenančias, atrodo, žemės gelmėse, Azijos žemių platybėse, Himalajų regione, Mongolijoje ar Tibete. „Pasaulio karalius“ – pavadinimas 1927 m. parašyto veikalo, kurio autorius René Guénonas – prancūzų ezoterikas ir mistikas, gimęs 1886 m. Blois, miręs 1951 m. Kaire. Iš literatūros kūrinių – ir kelionių aprašymų, ir fantastinių romanų – be Jules‘io „Kelionės į žemės centrą“ galima paminėti Ferdinando Ossendowskio knygą „Gyvuliai, žmonės ir diev…
Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Subverting the Masculinity of World War I Official Discourse
2014
Pat Barker’s Regeneration (1991) offers an imaginative deconstruction of the myth of the Great War as produced within British official patriotic rhetoric and in some of the best-known lyrics by Wilfred Owen (1893- 1918), who, together with Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), has always been celebrated as one of the leading War poets. If Owen’s poetry partly entails the apolitical sublimation of the devastating facts of war through the ambiguous sentiment of pity, in Barker’s novel any suppression of emotions is posited as artificial and counterbalanced by a thorough exploration of those contradictory aspects of the Great War which official discourses have tended to obscure: the homoerotic experi…
Recensione a YVES MÉNY, Democrazia: l’eredità politica greca. Miti - potere - istituzioni, Milano, Ariele, 2022
2022
è la recensione al libro scritto da Yves Mény. It is a review of the book written by Yves Mény.
rec. Doralice Fabiano, Senza Paradiso. Miti e credenze sull’aldilà greco
2020
review of Doralice Fabiano, Senza Paradiso. Miti e credenze sull’aldilà greco
Lapsas tēls un tā ietekme uz japāņu folkloru
2021
Japan is and has been for thousands of years a very spiritual nation that is influenced by three different religions as well as folklore and myth. The three main religions in Japan being Shintoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, all three offer its followers different moral perspectives that in Japan meld with each other and the folklore that is dominated by strange creatures and horrific monsters. Japanese folklore is also populated by real animals that have been given special abilities and powers which make them a part of the supernatural world. The yōkai, which are a great example of folklore, are made up of demons, shapeshifters, spirits, and all other sorts of various creatures. Like many…