Filtering by Genre / Topic: shaivism in books gave 8 results.
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.
It is only when the penis stands up straight, that it emits semen, the source of life. It is then called the phallus and has been considered, since earliest prehistory the image of the creative principle, a symbol of the process by which the Supreme
Alain Daniélou traces Shiva and Dionysus to a common prehistoric tradition, presenting Shaivism as a surviving key to the pagan religions, rites and symbols of the ancient West.
René Guénon’s foundational study of Hindu doctrines, presenting them as expressions of an immutable metaphysical tradition while challenging Western interpretations of Indian religion and philosophy.
Julius Evola interprets Mithraism as an initiatory path of inner transformation, reading its myths and rites as symbolic maps of consciousness rather than as historical narratives, and includes an appendix with the Ritual of Mithra from the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris…
Five tales of ancient gods and hidden traditions in the Roman countryside, where Mithraism, Shivaism and the sacred landscape challenge the certainties of the modern world.
