"He was seldom out of his bed before noon, when he drank a cup of very strong green tea, without sugar or milk. At two he ate a biscuit and drank soda-water. At three he mounted his horse and sauntered along the road—and generally the same road,—if alone, racking his brains for fitting matter and rhymes for the coming poem; he dined at seven, as frugally as anchorites are said in story-books to have done; at nine he visited the family of [his teenage mistress, Teresa Guiccioli]; on his return home he sat reading or composing until two or three o’clock in the morning, and then to bed, often feverish, restless, and exhausted—to dream, as he said, more than to sleep."
Edward John Trelawny "Records of Shelley, Byron, and the author"
"The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures."
The words : Dennis Diderot, Writings "on the salon of 1767"
The Pic : Roman Agora of Athens, in a rainy morning of March 2023
"For juveniles like us at the core of Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost, who were quite obsessed by the concepts created by Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, HR Giger, Ron Cobb, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley, an utterly dedicated sword and sorcery movie such as the original Conan The Barbarian (1982) fell on deeply fertile soil. I owned every Conan book by Howard, including the unfinished ones completed by L. Sprague de Camp et al, and in spite of the fact that Conan The Barbarian deviated quite significantly from Howard's original stories, John Milius' film managed to capture the spirit of Conan's Hyborian Age to astonishing perfection.
My contemporary obsession with this movie thus at times approached alarmingly fanatical levels. Likely among the mildest of those were various visual, musical and lyrical references to Howard's prose, as can be found on Morbid Tales, Emperor's Return, To Mega Therion, and Into The Pandemonium.
This was all of course eons ago, and it is thus by now as much an ancient saga as Conan's story was when Howard wrote it down under the guidance, as he said, of Conan's ethereal spirit. But some of my closest friends back then walked this path with me, just as some of my friends of today share such sentiments."
‘ancestral constitution (or way of life)’, slogan apparently used in the late 5th cent. bc at Athens by proponents of oligarchy, as a reassuring but fraudulent way of justifying constitutional change. The fraud lay in the implied claim that earlier reformers like Solon and Cleisthenes had denied full citizen rights (see citizenship, greek) to thetes, confining them to hoplites (zeugitai) and above. Such general nostalgia for the imagined world of Solon and Cleisthenes is found in the 4th cent., and some of the tradition about the 5th cent. may reflect 4th‐cent.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary
The Painting : Acropolis of Athens (1846) by Leo Von Kleze
"Documentary film that tracks down the traces of Jacques de Mahieu, a nazi refugee who lived in Argentina. He was an intellectual, scientist and archaeologist, obsessed to prove that the civilizations of America are of Aryan origin, descendants of Vikings who arrived in the continent centuries before the Spanish. His story is related to esoteric Nazism and the Aryan myth of creation, ancient secret societies, legends of lost civilizations, and even the mystery of Atlantis."
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BLOG'S COMMENT:
A very intresting documentary about the life, work and the legacy of Jacques de Mahieu. Shot mostly in real locations and with a neutral approach. Personally, I dont agree with everything said (or believed) about his theories. As I see it, the apelings of pre-columbian america and their descendants (the "natives" or "indigenous" as they called) that surviving nowadays, has nothing do with anything from the Aryan civilization brought there by conquerors or explorers from Europe. Their only "culture" were eating each other's hearts and other similar "noble" habits. Also, thanks to the Europeans that migrated there, they have now a country to live in, water, electricity, hospitals, schools etc If they were alone, I really doubt that they would have even these basic things.
Apart from that, Jacques de Mahieu was without a doubt a genius, a great wanderer, scholar and with a very inspiring way of life and ways of working.
