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🇮🇹 Fire is a natural element that has always aroused particular amazement in man, acquiring a material but also philosophical meaning for many cultures and traditions, thus becoming fundamental for the birth and evolution of civilization. Remaining in the European territory, we know that the Greek philosophers identified fire as one of the so-called arches; …
A study of the cognitive and spiritual dimensions of pre-Christian Scandinavian falconry. 🇮🇹 This article aims at a first study with relative, given the scarcity for the present of information, hypotheses, on the falconry reality. It is possible to assume that the hawks were well known in the northern countries as early as the sixth …
🇮🇹 The figure of the dragon has always been an object of fascination in the minds of the European and Eurasian people. During the thirteenth century, in Iceland, this symbol consisted not only of a purely imaginative vision of man, but of a real creature that contained pure knowledge. It can be seen in the …
🇮🇹 The tree in Norse mythology is intended as a support for the world. The three components of such tree (roots, trunk, branches) can be compared to the three layers of being, namely light, heat and drought in opposition and complementarity to darkness, cold and humidity. The roots dig the subsoil, the trunk is linked …
🇮🇹 Le Goff, in regard to the concept of memory, states that in a society that does not use the written word collective memory seems organized on three levels: Such levels must always be kept under control in order to obtain a correct recovery of traditions. In the oral transmission of knowledge is possible to …
🇮🇹 The Norse area of influence extended from Scandinavia to Kiev and Novgrod in the east, to Constantinople and Baghdad in the south via river links. Among the oldest known accounts of pagan Scandinavian rituals in Slavic territories, the one by Ibn Fadlan, a delegate from Baghdad who witnessed and reported on the funeral and …
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🇮🇹 The first edition of the Kalevala appeared in 1835, edited by Elias Lönnrot based on the popular epics he had collected in Finland and Karelia. When the Kalevala first appeared in print, Finland had been an autonomous Grand Duchy under Russia for a quarter of a century. Before this, until 1809, Finland was part …
🇮🇹 In the Edda of Snorri, there are two distinguished kinds of Elves: those of light (jçsàlfar), who dwell in Alfheim and shine like the sun, and those of the darkness (dokkàlfar), of dark color, inhabitants of the caves of the earth. According to popular tradition, developed throughout the Middle Ages in Iceland and the …
🇮🇹 The conception of souls for the siberian people maintains the same characteristics as the Heathen conception of Soul. A difference, but only marginal and logistic, can be seen with the distinction of free soul and corporeal soul. (Here the separation between Necromancy and Negromancy we refer to as Vanatrú Italia) The free soul is …
🇮🇹 The Draugur is a necromantic creature of the Scandinavian tradition; belongs to the Vanatrú practice, and they were faithful companions of the Vanic witches. These creatures were also nicknamed Aptrgangr, that means, those who walk after death. Creatures that accompanied the Scandinavian folk and that were evoked by the witch of the Vanir under …