Logi and Azar: the sacred fire

🇮🇹 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; …

Dérkomai

🇮🇹 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 …

Angel of Death: An Abramitic Observer Facing the Norns

🇮🇹 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 …

Draugur: the Necromantic Landvættir

🇮🇹 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 …