An Unexpected Journey 🔗First of all, thank you if you are reading this. It will be different from the other blog articles I have in mind: as an introduction, I want to let you know how the idea about this website was born and what it is meant to be – in my mind, at least. Now, I’d like to point out that I usually didn’t like talking about religion — or generally, that I didnt’ like religions. Despite that, in the summer of 2021, a friend of mine, a neighbor, while chatting about religion(!) and myths, recommended a text: “You should read The Golden Bough by Frazer. Therein, there is everything”. I never heard about Frazer before, so I immediately searched on Wikipedia. The book abstract looked interesting, but not great: starting from the legend behind a painting, the author explores the reasons of a brutal yet methodical ritual that was committed in central Italy, in the woods near Aricia (Ariccia in modern Italian).

I’m glad I discovered this Lemmy community!

I’d like to share my blog, called Godsip Club, where I like to share my findings about folklore, mythology and religion — I am no scholar, though! This is the link of the first article, a sort of introduction, which is about the book by Frazer. It is a tough reading (the book, not the article 😅), but I’d absolutely recommend it to all the fond of these subjects: it’s available for free on Project Gutenberg!