01 September 2014
Een bleeke, weeke made
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Ik ben de hazel-noot. - Een bleeke, weeke made bewoont mijn kamer, en die blind is, en die knaagt. Ik ben die van mijn zaad een duisterni...
27 August 2014
The great anti-babel of metaphysical Science
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Preparatory to the great anti-babel of metaphysical Science all sorts of materials psychological and logical must be brought together/some ...
11 August 2014
Âmes écrevisses
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Il existe des âmes écrevisses reculant continuellement vers les ténèbres, rétrogradant dans la vie plutôt qu'elles n'y avancent, em...
L'enfer c'est les autres
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No matter how insipid a man might be, he is more terrifying than the most demonic character from Dostoevsky. (...) I would rather travel th...
10 August 2014
The torments of beanismus
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11. [...] Nam videmus eos qui vagantes, cantantes, cursitantes, vociferantes, balantes, bacchantes, clamitantes, vorantes, potantes, ingurg...
11 June 2014
Polyolbiosis
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Ships, and their Picturesqueness — / Have I noticed the approximation to Round and Rondure, in the Square and triangular Forms — and that p...
08 June 2014
The cockroach in Russian literature (6): Dostoevsky (3)
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Один из двух мужчин, бывших в комнате, был еще очень молодой человек, лет двадцати пяти, тот самый Обноскин, о котором давеча упоминал дядя...
05 June 2014
The "Malbrough theme" (тема Мальбрука) (4)
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On peut, à la cour, prendre pied de deux façons: dans les nuées, on est auguste ; dans la boue, on est puissant. Dans le premier cas, on e...
02 March 2014
Nations policées, pays incultes
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Ne sortons point de notre continent, tant que la terre y est habitable. Les peuples barbares sont venus autrefois du Nord, inonder le Midi ...
02 February 2014
La géographie magique d'une planète inconnue
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Aussi bien, c'est une impression douloureuse, à mesure qu'on va plus loin, de perdre, ville à ville et pays à pays, tout ce bel uni...
29 September 2013
Shadows that in darkness dwell
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John Dowland (1563-1626), Flow My Tears ( Second Booke of Songes or Ayres , 1600) 5 Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell, L...
24 September 2013
The cicatrix
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Scars can be literal or metaphorical, physical or psychical. The scar is the memory of the wound, imprinted on the warp and weft of the fle...
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21 September 2013
De daemonibus (3): species and habitats
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[Thracian] Are there many species ( γένη ) of daemons, Marcus, I asked? “ Many indeed ,” he said, ...
21 August 2013
The narrowing chambers of hell
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"In each of the hot and secret countries to which that man went he kept a harem, he tortured witnesses, he amassed shameful gold; but ...
02 July 2013
Husk and kernel
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The foundation of any national character is human nature. A national character is simply a particular colouring taken on by human nature, a...
18 June 2013
De daemonibus (2): physiological processes
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[Thracian:] And I asked him whether daemons were endowed with affectivity ( ἐμπαθεῖς ). “Yes, indeed,” he said, “just as some of them even ...
17 June 2013
De daemonibus (1): corporeality
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Timotheus: How then, if they are not corporeal (μὴ σῶμα ὄντες), are they visible to our external vision (τοῖς ἐκτὸς ὄμασσιν)? Thracian...
16 June 2013
The soul's katastasis
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ᾍδης λέγεται ἡ ἐκ τοῦ ὁρωμένου πρὸς τὸ ἀειδὲς καὶ ἀθέατον κατάστασις τῆς ψχῆς. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο οἱ παρά τε τῶν ἔξωθεν, καὶ τῆς θέιας γραφῆς σ...
05 June 2013
Sleep and death
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Καθεύδοντα καὶ νεκρὸν, τὸν ἐν ἁμαρτίαις φησί. Καὶ γὰρ δυσωδίας πνεῖ, ὡς ὁ νεκρὸς, καὶ ἀνενέργητός ἐστιν, ὡς ὁ καθεύδων, καὶ οὐδὲν ὁρᾷ, ὡς ...
20 April 2013
La peur de l'enfer
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Et puis, il y a cette histoire curieuse que rapporte Ségur et qui me paraît vraie : « En 1787, dans une auberge près de Moulins, un vie...
11 February 2013
Apophany
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Vivre dans le monde comme dans un immense musée d'étrangeté, plein de jouets curieux, bariolés, qui changent d'aspect, que quelque-...
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20 January 2013
The twittering dead
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Of the ferryman across the "Waters of Death" there is no trace in the Old Testament. Spirits are supposed rather to "fly awa...
09 January 2013
Titivillus
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Des démonologues du moyen âge mentionnent le démon Tintinillus comme ayant pour mission de recueillir dans une grand sac les versets des ps...
30 September 2012
External and internal darkness
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Tenebrae apud inferos, duplices. Illas Corporis voco, et exteriores, has Animi et interiores. Illae Corporis, tenebras Aegyptias, horribil...
17 August 2012
Ici parmi la bourbe et le fient du monde
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La présomption est notre maladie naturelle et originelle. La plus calamiteuse et frêle de toutes les créatures c'est l'homme, et qu...
13 August 2012
De stultorum natura (3)
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He hath a soule drownd in a lumpe of flesh, or is a peece of earth that Prometheus put not halfe his proportion of fire into. A thing that...
22 July 2012
The Vogouls (6) Modern poetry (2)
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Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) ērγəŋ mākemn, mōjtəŋ mākemn ōsta, ōsta joχtŭmākem. wojkan χāľkwet rāmγantē...
The Vogouls (5) Modern poetry
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Youwan Shestalow ( Юван Николаевич Шесталов ) (1937-2011) χōtal śarmat χuriŋ āγi kit saγaγe saγijāγe. āŋkwatike - simkem tōli, wōrkem ...
09 July 2012
Universality of the belief in hell (6)
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According to Jochelson (1), among the Koryak there exist two conceptions of the abode of the departed. One soul of the deceased may rise to...
08 July 2012
The Vogouls (4) Sacred poetry
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A Vogul of the northern Ural. ( Collection of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography ). M. A. Czaplicka, Aboriginal S...
04 July 2012
The language(s) of the dead
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De Lingua etiam et sermone Mortuorum oriuntur quaestiunculae. Mortuorum Dialogos finxere multi, sed qua lingua colloquuntur mortui, nescio....
19 June 2012
The Vogouls (3) Theology, eschatology
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On the 14th of May [1692], he embarked at Solikamskoi, and crossing the little River of Usolkat, half a League from this City, he entered t...
06 June 2012
Description de la Moldavie
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La Moldavie est une des plus belles et des plus agréables Provinces de l'Europe. On y voit de grandes Campagnes, qui font arrosées de d...
02 June 2012
The Vogouls (2) Character, social organisation
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The Vogouls are hardly of a middling stature, have generally black hair, and for the most part a scanty beard. They have some traits of the...
01 June 2012
The Vogouls (1) Ethnonym, territory, language
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These people are sometimes called Vagouls and Vagoulitzes; but the appellation they give themselves is Mansi. They are of Finnish extractio...
30 May 2012
The voices of the dust (2)
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Me did he lead to the Dwelling of Darkness, the home of Irkalla, Unto the Dwelling from which he who entereth cometh forth never! (Aye), b...
26 May 2012
Lūji xum: homo infernus
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The Sosva Voguls maintain that the Prince of the Underworld sends sickness and death. (...) In several areas xuḽ-ōtәr or kuḽ-noàjer is id...
22 May 2012
Universality of the belief in hell (5)
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Les fausses religions ont aussi leur enfer: celui des Païens, assez connu par les descriptions qu’en ont faites Homere, Ovide et Virgile, e...
21 May 2012
Universality of the belief in hell (4)
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Xaca, dont la secte est très-répandue dans le Japon, enseigne que, dans le lieu du supplice que les méchants vont habiter après leur mort, ...
09 May 2012
Universality of the belief in hell (3)
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Exotericam Xekiae disciplinam describunt Le Comte, La Loubere, Bernier, maxime vero Kaempferus, ex quorum narrationibus constat, ita hunc I...
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