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ARCHETYPAL ASSETS

ARCHETYPAL ASSETS

Innovation in Cultural Cosmology / by Debra DeLeo Moolenaar

  • Demons at the Gate: How Augustine’s Inheritance Shaped Magic from Cloister to Cosmos?

    Demons at the Gate: How Augustine’s Inheritance Shaped Magic from Cloister to Cosmos?

    Augustine’s rebranding of daimons as demons created the framework that defined magic for a millennium. From Aquinas to witchcraft theorists, from Trithemius to Jung, Western thought could not escape this inheritance: once spirits became fallen angels, all magical practice stood suspect.

    debramoolenaar

    September 19, 2025
    Jung, Magic, Religion
  • The Connection Between Lughnasadh, The Heart of Shadows, and Ara Norenzayan’s Research

    The Connection Between Lughnasadh, The Heart of Shadows, and Ara Norenzayan’s Research

    According to Cornish folklore, the Heart represents the essence of life and the balance between light and dark—a theme that resonates with the cyclical nature of agricultural seasons.

    debramoolenaar

    August 1, 2025
    Cornwall, Folklore, Original Fiction
  • The Shining Ones, Tuatha de Danaan, and the Roads Beneath Our Feet

    The Shining Ones, Tuatha de Danaan, and the Roads Beneath Our Feet

    The Watchers appear in texts like the Book of Enoch, a once-suppressed text that describes how these beings—often interpreted as fallen angels—shared knowledge of metallurgy, herbalism, astrology, and magical practices.

    debramoolenaar

    July 22, 2025
    Book reviews, Cornwall, Cosmology and Divination, Original Fiction, Religion
  • Blog Post Review: Faeries, Fallen Ages, and the Forgotten Covenant — A Deep Dive into Red Tree, White Treeby Wendy Berg

    Blog Post Review: Faeries, Fallen Ages, and the Forgotten Covenant — A Deep Dive into Red Tree, White Treeby Wendy Berg

    Berg paints a stunning portrait of Faery not as the domain of mischievous sprites or dainty flower fairies, but as a noble Otherworld inhabited by radiant, intelligent beings whose lives once overlapped with ours.

    debramoolenaar

    July 21, 2025
    Book reviews, Cornwall, Folklore, Original Fiction
  • “Echoes in the Cave: A Letter Exchange on Forster, Faith, and Fissures from the correspondence of Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon

    “Echoes in the Cave: A Letter Exchange on Forster, Faith, and Fissures from the correspondence of Lillian Hartley and Sylvia Moon

    I knew it was from you the moment I saw the cover. Only you would think to tuck existential despair between the poetry shelves — or was that Edward’s mischief? He does so love a theatrical gesture.

    debramoolenaar

    June 30, 2025
    Cornwall, literary criticism, Original Fiction
  • “The Price of Freedom”

    “The Price of Freedom”

    “Also,” Wren barked through the receiver, “your ghost friend Edward? He’s in my mirror. Not a dream. He winked. Winked, Lillian. That man is dead.”

    debramoolenaar

    June 29, 2025
    Uncategorized
  • “Daisy, Verena, and Veronica”

    “Daisy, Verena, and Veronica”

    But then The Bostonians. God help me

    debramoolenaar

    June 28, 2025
    literary criticism, Original Fiction
  • December 25th: Morning Tea, A Postcard, and  The Portrait of a Lady

    December 25th: Morning Tea, A Postcard, and  The Portrait of a Lady

    Sylvia blamed the cat. We haven’t had a cat in years.

    debramoolenaar

    June 27, 2025
    Cornwall, literary criticism, Original Fiction
  • The Door Has Always Been Open

    The Door Has Always Been Open

    I tried the Virginia Woolf route. Everyone else seemed to find some holy map between her pages — Sylvia and Lillian, with their candlelit arguments and mystical comparisons. But for me?

    debramoolenaar

    June 26, 2025
    Cornwall, literary criticism, Original Fiction
  • Sunset, Memory, and Other Silly Things

    Sunset, Memory, and Other Silly Things

    Let’s get one thing clear: I don’t like Woolf. I didn’t like her at school, and I haven’t warmed to her in exile. The only thing that ever lingered was Orlando — not because I admired it, but because it annoyed me so thoroughly that it stuck.

    debramoolenaar

    June 25, 2025
    literary criticism, Original Fiction
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