Double-headed Lombardo-Venetian eagle, apparently of Masonic origin
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Arms of Sirmione in the
province of Brescia
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Eagle on past German flag
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Brescian lion
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Venetian lion
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Above: South Tyrolian eagle.... Below: "Rodan" of Japanese movie fame
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Classic German eagle
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Video Links
The Dark Reality of Los Angeles - YouTube
The Ocean is Way Deeper Than You Think - YouTube
Experiment: LAVA vs BULLETPROOF GLASS - YouTube
5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets - YouTube
The Mormons: Who They Are, What They Believe (2015) | Full Movie | Dr. Lynn Wilder - YouTube
When LIVING IN A CAR is Your Last Choice - "Mobile" a Short Film - YouTube
WRITE IT DOWN & The Universe Will Bring It To You - Dr. Joe Dispenza (Law Of Attraction) - YouTube
Death is Not Random - View from the Other Side, Episode 4 - YouTube
15 Merciless Moments When Male Lions Attack Their Prey - YouTube
Everything You Didn't Know About Dark Web, But Should - YouTube
China's Plan to Overtake USA as Superpower (Why It's Failing) - YouTube
How and Why Do Most People Fool Themselves? Here it is...
Scientists Submit Actual Proof Aliens Are Watching You Right Now
Exploring The Abandoned Town Of Thurmond, West Virginia - YouTube
WW2 Weapons That are STILL Being Used Today - YouTube
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Young mystery woman
The young woman whose tiny image is so frequently featured on that YouTube advert located on the upper right. Who is she? Is she Slavic?
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Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America
Granite Falls, Washington
Constructed 1935
Tsubaki Grand Shrine of America (video of the the grounds)
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Tsubaki Grand Shrine (Japan)
Gallery of other Shinto shrines
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This shrine reminds me a lot of an Asatru hof in architecture, energy, location, and principle. Shinto and Asatru, as ancestral-based belief systems, seem to have a similar general view of life.
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Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden
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Lynn Rene Anderson was born in Grand Forks, North Dakota, on September 26, 1947, to Casey and Liz Anderson. Her grandparents were Scandinavian immigrants who established a North Dakota "saddle club". According to Anderson, she could ride horses before she could walk. While she was still a young child, the family relocated to a subdivision in Fair Oaks, California. However, Anderson insisted that her parents move to a ranch, prompting the family to move to Sacramento, California. In Sacramento, the Anderson family bought a ranch with two acres of land. The family raised horses, which she learned how to ride and care for. At the age of nine, Anderson won second place at a local horse-racing event in San Francisco, California. Lynn also became interested in performing from an early age. Both her parents were aspiring songwriters that had formed friendships with west country performers. Her performing and musical interests continued into high school. During her teens she landed a job working as a secretary for KROY in Sacramento. Upon graduating, she became the station's secretary to the general manager.
While working full-time, Lynn continued entering equestrian competitions. Once winning several competitions, she was dubbed the "California Horse Show Queen" in 1966. While watching her daughter at these events, Liz Anderson was also composing songs. She sent her compositions to Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee, where they were heard by music executives. Among the songs heard was "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers", which was recorded by Merle Haggard in 1964. The song led producer Chet Atkins to Liz to a recording contract at RCA Victor. This prompted the family to relocate to Nashville. Before officially moving, Liz took a brief trip with her daughter to Nashville in 1965. At a hotel, mother and daughter performed in an informal sing-along with several other artists. Also present at the sing-along was producer Slim Williamson. Impressed by her vocals, Williamson offered Lynn a recording contract of her own. In 1966, she signed her first recording contract with Chart Records.
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Anderson has been widely regarded as one of country music's most significant female artists.
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Chuck Missler -- Transhumanism
1,901,765 views - July 26, 2013
Calvary South Denver
Chuck Missler spoke at Calvary South Denver in Littleton Colorado on July 24, 2013 on the subject of Transhumanism. (It is recommended that you watch this video at full 720p resolution so that you can clearly see all of the powerpoint slides used in this presentation.)
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Robert Downey Junior says "I love Chuck Missler"
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Little Moon Clothing
Hand-made clothing
Beautiful pagan-themed clothing for females of all ages
The guys have to sit this one out I guess
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Littlemoonclothing
https://www.pinterest.com/littlemoonco/
I guess it's like anything else, if you want to see more of this type of thing, vote with your pocketbook..
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Sophia Loren, Yvonne De Carlo
and Gina Lollobrigida at a
film ball in Berlin in 1954
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A Beautiful Morning. The Rascals. (1968)
12mulligan
The Rascals 1968 hit, A Beautiful Morning. With lyrics.
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"Sweet memories driving to work the first week of May 1968 anticipating our wedding on the eleventh. We were so very very happy. That day was the beginning of our life together for 31 years! God’s way is the best way. He blessed us abundantly. May 11 was a beautiful morning, and the beginning of a beautiful life!"
-- Mae Guerra
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For me , I was in 7th grade walking to school , on a Beautiful May morning , we were going to our annual school safety picnic , my Mom bought me a new outfit for the picnic a pretty pair of ,pink and white shorts with a matching pink top and jacket and loved the outfit , I met up with my girlfriends at the corner of our street and we all walked to school , so excited for the picnic , Beautiful morning came on my transistor radio I was carrying, and it spoke to us girls every way , what a sweet memory , I have always cherished , we were happy young preteens that day and I never forgot this song , and that Beautiful morning walking to school full of joy and all was right with our world , Cherish it my whole life and always will ..💕
-- Bonnie McGinnis
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Ellen Lloyd - January 22, 2018 - AncientPages.com
On the desolate north bank of the Payne Estuary, 15 miles above the village of Payne Bay, near the west coast of Ungava Bay, northern Quebec, Canada, there is a very curious ancient monument resembling Thor’s Hammer.
The monument is a two-ton stone structure, about 8 feet high, and measures 4-1/2 feet across at its pointed lintel, surmounted by a 14-inch-high capstone. It is unknown who raised the monument, and there is some dispute about its builders.
The structure was discovered in 1964 by archaeologist Thomas E. Lee during an anthropological expedition to Ungava. Lee was struck by its roughly Nordic design and dubbed it “the Hammer of Thor.”
God Thor is considered a hero of the Vikings, and his hammer has long been the Vikings’ amulet of protection and power. Thor is often depicted with Mjölnir, a magical hammer in his hand.
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This monument is located in the far north of Quebec, near the north opening into the Hudson Bay.
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VIKING SYMBOLS meaning and pronunciation
597,381 views - November 17, 2020
Hrafna
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On top of her passion and knowledge, Hrafna is really quite the "Viking Princess" stereotype
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Giordano Bruno and the Poem Worth Dying For
Presenting Giordano Bruno, the enigmatic mystic who bet his soul against the Catholic Church. Who was he, and why was he killed? The famous Renaissance martyr, but a martyr for what?
Watch the Full Video here: The Real Story of Giordano Bruno https://youtu.be/wy_OTBVvfKA
00:00 Who was Giordano Bruno?
00:41 Martyr for what?
01:13 Missing Documents
01:50 What was Bruno’s Heresy?
02:32 False Dichotomy?
03:22 Two New Questions
05:17 Master of Memory
06:18 Memory Games
07:48 The Gamble Pays off
08:46 Silencing the Eternal Poem
10:13 Invitation
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"I've been fascinated with Bruno since I was a girl and read a quote of his about the nature of the stars and possibility of other worlds. I don't think he returned to Italy for just one reason. He hinted many times that he thought the fire was his fate. Perhaps, he wanted to challenge a church that had hounded his footsteps for far too long. Perhaps, he had grown tired of running. I do not agree he was arrogant as some think. I think it was just the opposite. I have wondered, at times, if he wasn't a wounded soul trying to find union within himself. Mystics live by a different set of rules than most people and Bruno definitely was a mystic. I agree, he was looking for a holistic worldview."
-- Kathleen Hensley
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Philosophy and Magick of Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno - Philosopher / Heretic
The Real Story of Giordano Bruno | Why Was He Burnt Alive?
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The Life of Giordano Bruno
42,282 views - February 7, 2021
Let's Talk Philosophy
Vacillating, intriguing, and tragic; if I were to ascribe three words to the life of Giordano Bruno it would undoubtedly be these. I suspect many know of this stories fiery denouement, but if you are interesting in discovering how Giordano Bruno, searching and wondering, transformed from priest to philosophical martyr for free speech and tolerance of differences then give me 10 minutes of your time.
If you enjoyed this video and are interesting in learning more about history’s greatest philosophic minds and ideas consider subscribing to the channel. Here my goal is to bring philosophy to whoever may be seeking it by illuminating the individuals who, by the prestidigitation of their thought, changed the world.
Music:
"Solstice" - Scott Buckley
"Breathing Planet" - Doug Maxwell
Sources:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Giordano-Bruno
The Story of Civilization VII – The Age of Reason Begins (Will and Ariel Durant)
CC Attributions:
Head of inquisition - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Antonio_Santori#/media/File:Giuliano_finelli,_monumento_al_cardinale_giuliano_antonio_santori,_1637_ca._03.jpg
Martin Luther University - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_University_of_Halle-Wittenberg#/media/File:Wittenberg_University,_Collegianstrasse,_Wittenberg.jpg
Aviceena - https://www.flickr.com/photos/blondinrikard/14310226742
Bruno Monument - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#/media/File:Monument_to_Giordano_Bruno_at_Potsdamer_Platz_in_Berlin._Germany.jpg
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Bruno Monument 3 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Pietrasanta-monumento_Giordano_Bruno.jpg
Bruno Monument 4 - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Klagenfurt_Kreuzbergl_Bruno_Giordano_Weg_1_Volkssternwarte_Gedenktafel_Giordano_Bruno_02052009_47.jpg
Dominican Monastery - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Domi0nican_Monastery_Dubrovnik.JPG
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Giordano Bruno (Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno, January or February 1548 – 17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorist, and Hermetic occultist. He is known for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and he raised the possibility that these planets might foster life of their own, a cosmological position known as cosmic pluralism. He also insisted that the universe is infinite and could have no "center".
While Bruno began as a Dominican friar, during his time in Geneva he embraced Calvinism. Bruno was later tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition on charges of denial of several core Catholic doctrines, including eternal damnation, the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, the virginity of Mary, and transubstantiation. Bruno's pantheism was not taken lightly by the church, nor was his teaching of the transmigration of the soul (reincarnation). The Inquisition found him guilty, and he was burned at the stake in Rome's Campo de' Fiori in 1600. After his death, he gained considerable fame, being particularly celebrated by 19th- and early 20th-century commentators who regarded him as a martyr for science, although most historians agree that his heresy trial was not a response to his cosmological views but rather a response to his religious and afterlife views. However, some historians do contend that the main reason for Bruno's death was indeed his cosmological views. Bruno's case is still considered a landmark in the history of free thought and the emerging sciences.
In addition to cosmology, Bruno also wrote extensively on the art of memory, a loosely organized group of mnemonic techniques and principles. Historian Frances Yates argues that Bruno was deeply influenced by the Empedocles, Neoplatonism, Renaissance Hermeticism, and Genesis-like legends surrounding the Hellenistic conception of the Egyptian god Hermes Tresmigestus. Other studies of Bruno have focused on his qualitative approach to mathematics and his application of the spatial concepts of geometry to language.
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[The Tarot] first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarock, is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play games such as Italian tarocchini; many games are still played today; in the late 18th century, some tarot decks began to be used for divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy leading to custom decks developed for such occult purposes.
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History
The first documented tarot packs were recorded between 1440 and 1450 in Milan, Ferrara, Florence and Bologna when additional trump cards with allegorical illustrations were added to the common four-suit pack. These new decks were called carte da trionfi, triumph cards, and the additional cards known simply as trionfi, which became "trumps" in English. The earliest documentation of trionfi is found in a written statement in the court records of Florence, in 1440, regarding the transfer of two decks to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta.
The oldest surviving tarot cards are the 15 or so Visconti-Sforza tarot decks painted in the mid-15th century for the rulers of the Duchy of Milan. A lost tarot-like pack was commissioned by Duke Filippo Maria Visconti and described by Martiano da Tortona probably between 1418 and 1425, since the painter he mentions, Michelino da Besozzo, returned to Milan in 1418, while Martiano himself died in 1425. He described a 60-card deck with 16 cards having images of the Roman gods and suits depicting four kinds of birds. The 16 cards were regarded as "trumps" since in 1449 Jacopo Antonio Marcello recalled that the now deceased duke had invented a novum quoddam et exquisitum triumphorum genus, or "a new and exquisite kind of triumphs". Other early decks that also showcased classical motifs include the Sola-Busca and Boiardo-Viti decks of the 1490s.
In Florence, an expanded deck called Minchiate was used. This deck of 97 cards includes astrological symbols and the four elements, as well as traditional tarot motifs.
The expansion of tarot outside of Italy, first to France and Switzerland, occurred during the Italian Wars. The most important tarot pattern used in these two countries was the Tarot of Marseilles of Milanese origin.
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Etmology
The word Tarot and German Tarock derive from the Italian Tarocchi, the origin of which is uncertain but taroch was used as a synonym for foolishness in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The decks were known exclusively as Trionfi during the fifteenth century.
[Depaulis, Thierry (2008). "Entre farsa et barzelletta: jeux de cartes italiens autours de 1500". The Playing-Card. 37 (2): 89–102]
During the 16th century, a new game played with a standard deck but sharing a very similar name (Trionfa) was quickly becoming popular. This coincided with the older game being renamed tarocchi. In modern Italian, the singular term is Tarocco, which, as a noun, refers to a cultivar of blood orange. The attribute Tarocco and the verb Taroccare are used regionally to indicate that something is fake or forged. This meaning is directly derived from the tarocchi game as played in Italy, in which tarocco indicates a card that can be played in place of another card.
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Gaming decks
The original purpose of tarot cards was to play games. A very cursory explanation of rules for a tarot-like deck is given in a manuscript by Martiano da Tortona before 1425. Vague descriptions of game play or game terminology follow for the next two centuries until the earliest known complete description of rules for a French variant in 1637. The game of tarot has many regional variations. Tarocchini has survived in Bologna and there are still others played in Piedmont and Sicily, but in Italy the game is generally less popular than elsewhere.
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Tarocco Piemontese: the Fool card
These were the oldest form of tarot deck to be made, being first devised in the 15th century in northern Italy. Three decks of this category are still used to play certain games:
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Card reading
The earliest evidence of a tarot deck used for cartomancy (fortune telling) comes from an anonymous manuscript from around 1750 which documents rudimentary divinatory meanings for the cards of the Tarocco Bolognese.
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Also known as Nemoralia, Festival of Torches, and Hecatean Ides. In Stregheria it is known as the Festival of Diana. The Old Religion predates the Etruscans and Romans. Nemoralia no doubt comes from the fabled Lake Nemi. From very ancient times, Lake Nemi was known as Diana's Mirror, or Speculum Dianae to the Romans. The Goddess Diana (Diana Nemorensis: Diana of Nemi or Diana of the Wood) is deeply associated with the lake and surrounding woods. Near the temple of Diana was the sacred grove of Aricia.
A Rex Nemorensis was the name of the head of a Dianic preisthood at the temple. However this was during Roman times, and not of the time of the original Dianic tradition(s). The Temple of Diana at Lake Nemi was constructed near the north shore by the ancient Romans about 300 BCE, and was called the 'Temple of Diana Nemorensis'. Ancient Rome, just like the United States today, fostered various cults to occupy the minds of the common people. However, there is something far more spiritually essential about the pre-Roman and pre-Etruscan folkways. The ways of the mysterious Euganei; a Proto-European people of the Italian peninsula. Probably even more mysterious than the Etruscans.
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| Roman ruins of the Temple of Diana at Lake Nemi |
1st century BCE Roman poet Ovid described the celebration:
"In the Arrician valley,
there is a lake surrounded by shady forests,
Held sacred by a religion from the olden times...
On a long fence hang many pieces of woven thread,
and many tablets are placed there
as grateful gifts to the Goddess.
Often does a woman whose prayers Diana answered,
With a wreath of flowers crowning her head,
Walk from Rome carrying a burning torch...
There a stream flows down gurgling from its rocky bed..."
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| A more modern statue of Diana overseeing Lake Nemi |
1st century CE Roman poet Propertius observed the festival, apparently from a distance, and wrote to his beloved:
"Ah, if you would only walk here in your leisure hours.
But we cannot meet today,
When I see you hurrying in excitement with a burning torch
To the grove of Nemi where you
Bear light in honour of the Goddess Diana."
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| Lake Nemi in Latium |
On
this day, worshipers formed a procession of torches and candles around
the waters of Lake Nemi (the name Nemi, from the Latin nemus, means a
sacred wood or sacred grove), also known as Diana's Mirror. Hundreds
join together at the lake, wearing wreaths of flowers. According to
Plutarch, part of the ritual (before the procession around the lake) was
the washing of hair and dressing it with flowers.
It
is a day of rest for women and slaves. Hounds are also honored and
dressed with blossoms. Travelers between the north and south banks of
the lake were carried in small boats lit by lanterns. Similar lamps were
used by Vestal virgins and have been found with images of the goddess
at Nemi.
Requests
and offerings to Diana may include small baked clay or bread statuettes
of body parts in need of healing; small clay images of mother and child;
tiny sculptures of stags; dance and song; and fruit such as apples. In
addition, offerings of garlic are made to the Goddess of the Dark Moon,
Hecate, during the festival[citation needed]. Hunting or killing of any
beast is forbidden on Nemoralia.
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The pre-Etruscan/Roman Dianic cult
I suppose that it could be an area of debate within practitioners of Stregheria as to how much latter influence should be adhered to. In truth, we really don't know a lot about the Euganei or their ancient spiritual traditions. What we do know is that during the last glacial movement, ending about 9,000 years ago, about two-thirds of Europe was covered by a mile high sheet of ice. A clearly related Proto-European lunar Goddess tradition essentially stretched from Wales to Portugal to Greece and to Bavaria. The name of the Goddess was different from region to region (Diana, Hecate, Mona, etc), and other names of the finite aspects of this tradition were different, but overall it was all closely related. Remember this was basically "a little Europe" at the time. A very similar primal people existed throughout at that time, prior to the latter incoming movements of Teutons or Mediterraneans.
The Etruscans had a mysterious culture, and brought with them their own pantheon of gods and spiritual folkways which merged with the natives. Then the Romans took over and started anew; erasing much of what had been Etruscan culture, architecture, spirituality, history, etc. They had their own, often conflated, pantheon of gods and spiritual folkways. I think it was all more planned and calculated by the Romans, while the Etruscan culture likely merged with the local native folkways in a much more organic manner. So for a modern Stregheria movement... which aspects of all this do we adhere to? While in ancient Greece, the Olympian gods seem to have been separate from the more ancient Hecate cult; in ancient Italy the whole thing was more convoluted.
While it would be exciting to explore the pantheon of Etruscan gods, there does become a confusion... especially since the latter manifestations of the Old Religion which have existed in the periphery over the centuries have their own local folkways. To a large extent, what we might call Stregheria today is a confusion of time periods and regional influences as they survived in spiritual exile from the mainstream society. In the Gaulish north, not surprisingly there is Gaulish and ancient German influences, even Slavic influences. The Goddess was called Mona, the same as in Gaul proper and other ancient northern European locales. The story of the 'Witches of Benevento' is a good example of one of the many migrating peoples on the peninsula whom had an influence on the pre-existing pagan traditions... in this case, the south-migrating Langobards.
Over the centuries there were numerous, more often small, migrations of other peoples into the peninsula. Other Europeans, and even non-Europeans in the south, either invaded to migrated and had some affect on the culture and traditions. Overall, these spiritual influences--if there were any--were probably small. One thing which is not helpful, for example, is when Raven Grimassi was attacked by some for a perception that he was speaking for all who practice Stregheria. Also, some even deny Stregheria itself, insisting that it should all be about Benecaria or something else. I think that we should approach this in the following manner:
2) Create levels of commonality. A chronological system where we can agree on some things, and also allow for a lot of spiritual diversity.... both individually and by small groups.
3) Proto-European witchcraft: Always acknowledge the "very ancients" from the last ice age. These were they're ways, and we're their descendants.
4) Euganei: It is essential to acknowledge that this was the primal population of Italy at one point, and they are all of our ancestors. This is the link that ties us all together, and the most important step! If we can't at least do this, then we're truly just wasting our time as far as a greater revival. We must keep this area of study and practice, pure; at least academically, and in a unifying manner. Creating a nucleus of folk-spiritual sameness of which we can all agree one.
5) Acknowledge the main contributors to latter traditions: Etruscans, Gauls, and Romans.
6) Acknowledge influences from the Middle Ages.
7) Acknowledge post-Medieval influences.
8) Allow those who are not interested in the very ancient folkways--the Euganei--to go their own way. This isn't to say that, for example, cryptic-traditions within the Church are not a big part of our history. They certainly are, but the essential basis of Stregheria must be of these ancient ancestors. I would also think the folklore of Aradia as well. If someone can't handle that, then we go our separate spiritual ways. Also, of course, there are other influences: Masonic, Hemetic, Eastern, Astrology, etc. However, at the primal heart must always be the ancient folkways! Beyond that, there can be all sorts of individually-inspired, small group, or regional flavors. Italian-Americans in New England might adopt something from earlier English pagans, or Italian-Argentines might adopt something from Basque pagans. The common American "welcome star" comes directly from Dutch/German pagan tradition. Italian-Americans in Pennsylvania might adopt that symbol to an extent. Personally, I place a little hand-made wooden red solar cross up along the trails where I usually walk, conduct ritual, alone or with others. When the early Christians were eliminating Odinic tradition from German-speaking areas, Hungary and elsewhere, the pagans would replace their old altars in the woods with a red cross to mask their holy altars in hopes that they could return to them at a later point. Of course, it never happened. So I use that same concept, using a red solar cross instead; in this case as a type of altar in of itself. There seems to be another pagan coven of some type whom places little hand-weaved hearts in the area; and I also see rocks stacked or little stone labyrinths. Meaningful things like this are fine on the surface, and don't replace the primal Stregheria which we would need to agree upon.
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Having passed away in 2019, Raven Grimassi left us too soon. I strongly feel, despite the trail that he blazed, that there was still work to be done. I suppose that we would all feel that way when someone important to us passes... if there only was more time. We still must finally iron out a foundation as far as creating an "Aradianist Folk Revival." Basically agree on the essentials, and agree-to-disagree on the less important things.
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Incontri Tra/Montani means "Meetings Between/Mountains," and to the best of my knowledge was formed to provide a political voice to communities in the eastern Alps of Lombardy, Trentino, and also to other Alpine communities who are often overlooked. I think it's comparable to rural Upper Michigan building an "embassy" near the capitol in Lansing to provide a voice for the detached region. ITM turned 30 last year. I believe that province of Sondrio, the Brescian Tri-Valley, and the Bergamo Alps encompasses a strong cultural milieu as well. Naturally we would like to express solidarity with them.
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http://www.incontritramontani.it/
https://www.facebook.com/Incontritramontani/
https://incontritramontani.academia.edu/incontritramontani
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INCONTRI TRAMONTANI - (PIEVE DI BONO-PREZZO)
gianni beordo
Trentesima edizione: Incontri Tramontani
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Museo Scuola Rango
"Bello!"
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A brief history
Incontri Tra/Montani was born in 1990 from a chance meeting between cultural associations of Valle Camonica and Val Trompia. From the observation of a lack of communication between the valleys and from the reading of the great difficulties in which the mountain communities finds itself (exodus, destructive interventions, youth unemployment, etc.), the idea arose of an annual conference that would begin to create a network of non-institutional relations between groups operating in the Italian, Swiss, Austrian, and French Alps with the aim of promoting mutual knowledge, collaboration, exchange of analysis and possible proposals.
In the term Tra/Montani there is a double meaning: 1) The need for dialogue and the consciousness of the sunset of a civilization that was at the center of the pre-industrial economy since all medieval "machines" needed the energy produced by the fall of water.
The study and reflection meetings on issues of common interest in Alpine resorts have been organized regularly since 1990 and touch on topics of various kinds and locations that are always different.
The ITM to which the Valle Camonica, the Giudicarie Valleys, the Val di Sole, Valtellina, Val Seriana, Val Cavallina, Carnia, and Val Verzasca adhere to permanently, has no official seat, nor a statute. It is a self-managed, spontaneous, and free thinking.
Membership of the ITM Group is open to all associations, study centres and cultural groups in the Alps.
'History of the ITM' by Giancarlo Maculotti (pdf file)
The following all collaborated in the realization of the ITM:
• Associazione Comitato Organizzatore Festa di Trate - Gaverina Terme (Bergamo)
• Associazione IVS Inventario delle Vie di Comunicazione Storiche (Milano)
• Centro Studi e Ricerche Archivio Bergamasco (Bergamo)
• Centro Studi Etnografici Val Imagna S. Omobono Imagna (Bergamo)
• Centro Studi Judicaria – Tione (Trento)
• Centro Studi Val di Sole – Malè (Trento)
• Centro Studi Valchiavennaschi Chiavenna (Sondrio)
• Circolo Culturale Baradello Clusone (Bergamo)
• Circolo Culturale Ghislandi Cividate Camuno (Brescia)
• Comune di Montereale Valcellina Montereale Valcellina (Pordenone)
• Cooperativa Arca Gardone Val Trompia (Brescia)
• Cooperativa Il Chiese - Storo (Trento)
• Fondazione Progetto Poschiavo Poschiavo (Svizzera)
• Fondazione Val Verzasca Canton Ticino (Svizzera)
• L’Arcilettore, Circolo di Sondrio (Sondrio)
• Museo Etnografico S. Caterina Valfurva (Sondrio)
• Museo Etnografico Tiranese - Tirano (Sondrio)
• Pro Vita Alpina - Längenfeld (Austria)
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| 'Allegory of Lombardy' -- Giovanni Baratta |
From the legacy of this experiences in the 1980s was founded the Lombard League (since 1989 flowed in the Northern League). During the years, its target changes between the separatism and the ask of a greater autonomy in the Italian state. In 2018, the independence was officially abandoned by the federal secretary Matteo Salvini, after five years of ambiguity.
