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Alain Daniélou explores phallic symbolism across religious traditions, from prehistory to India, Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, taking the lingam and the cult of Shiva as his main points of reference.
The Rites of Hekate is a personal yet deeply rooted academic account of the current understanding of this ambivalent goddess, presented as an arcane and liminal archetype.
Ce livre présente les religions de la Méditerranée ancienne – grecque, romaine, phénicienne et punique, hébraïque et juive, mésopotamienne, égyptienne – en mouvement. Au fur et à mesure de ces histoires de dieux en voyage…
The links between Egypt and Greece are strong and far-reaching, and although the zoomorphic gods frightened Herodotus, the fact remains that the two cultures continued to influence each other.
The Dionysian themed frescos of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries constitute the single most important theurgical narrative to have survived in the Western esoteric tradition.
A key Neoplatonic text, The Cave of the Nymphs reads Homer’s cave as an allegory of the soul’s descent into matter and return to the divine, with echoes of the mysteries of Mithras.
George Ryley Scott explores the significant role that male sexual organs, practices, and rites have played in various traditions throughout history and into the present day.
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