Wild Hunt

Wild Hunt

Art thou not thyself the wind with shrill whistling, which bursteth open the gates of the fortress of Death?  Art thou not thyself the coffin full of many-hued malices and angel-caricatures of lifе? Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spаke Zarathustra In an almost forgotten essay “Wotan”, Karl Gustav Jung harks back to the experience of a “fifteen-year-old Nietzsche […]

The Return of Myth

The Return of Myth

“Rough incursions, which in many places convert historical landscapes into elementary ones, hide subtle changes but of the more aggressive kind.” – Ernst Jünger, At the Wall of Time The contradictory processes of de-mythologization and re-mythologization are not unknown to ancient civilizations, in which the old myths are sometimes destroyed (demythologization) and replaced with new […]