The Armanen futhark, which, contrary to popular belief, is not the current popular runic set, was devised by Guido Von List (1848 - 1919) extensive in the existing futhark but reduced the number of runes to 18, which he identified with the eighteen wishes that Odin formulates in the Hávámal. All this, according to his own testimony, was revealed to...
A few days after the end of the exhibition, it was possible to us to visit it, and here is a review-summary so that you can also evaluate the exhibition, from anywhere, and promote more activities like this one. Accommodated in a not very extensive space, the exhibition is quite complete, accurate, and to a certain extent welcoming. With brooms...
With this we enter the perhaps most representative and dim chapter of magic of all time, the one called submission (gr. hypotaktikón) and which includes two intimately linked branches, the malefic and the erotic. The relationship between the two is manifested by the divinities that come into play, nocturnal or subterranean in both cases, and the...
As already said in the article Ancient Runic Magic, the intrinsic and, if you will, hidden meanings of the runes of the Scandinavian futhark and Anglo-Saxon futhorc are found in the Norwegian runic poems, from the 7th century, the Anglo-Saxon, from the 8th century or IX, and the Icelandic, recorded in the S.XV. Although there is also the...
Runes are known as the set of Scandinavian and Germanic characters with which various alphabets are formed, according to the language and the region, which kept, within its use as a writing system, a magical-religious value when it was applied in certain events or places , and whose denomination has later been extended to the general, to any symbol...
The Chaldeans were part of a Semitic tribe that had its beginnings or origins in the Arab and were located in Mesopotamia. More precisely, their main settlement was in the southern part during the period before the common era, before the first millennium. Although it has not been determined exactly, linguistic studies have decreed that they were...
The origins of sigils are lost in the mists of time if we dare to identify even the marks our prehistoric ancestors carved on stone as sigils. However, it is more logical to identify it from the creation of writing, and therefore, the conscious manifestation of a concept through the abstraction that it supposes. Because, by definition, that is...
We have a quite biased view of Roman culture at a popular level, considering that their gods were greek copies, and that all their rituals and festivities also had that basis. However, the Romans had their own culture and religious specifications, and if there is one thing they were known for, it was being extremely superstitious. Superstitio,...
Salamanca, capital city of the province of the same name, in Spain, is known worldwide for its historical and cultural heritage. The façade of the University, for example, is well-known in the history of art, as well as being the third oldest university in Europe. But between monumental facades and Gothic cathedrals, a small tourist attraction that...
(Extract from the article Traditional African Religions: some general keys. from De Dioses y Hombres blog. I invite you to pay a visit to it and read the full article here:
From the 5th of last October and until April 2018, at Alfonso XIII Botanical Garden of the Complutense University of Madrid, it will be able to visit an exhibition that delves into the use that human beings have given to plants, herbology , in its medicinal and magical aspects, in different cultures and at different social levels.
If we gather every practice of esoteric and occultist currents, some people call this group as "esoteric tradition" thanks to its spiritual features. They have in mind their origins. We can't avoid dividing them in esoteric and occultist branches by two different ways we have seen before in the previous article :
