Oddcast Episodes Themed "Esoteric Architecture"

William Gallois on the Amuletic Qayrawān in the Colonial Era

William Gallois was looking through hundreds of photographs of the city of Qayrawān, in modern-day Tunisia, from the period of French colonial occupation. He started to notice strange paintings in the backgrounds of these pictures ...

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James Russell on the Hypnerotomachia in Esoteric Tradition

We penetrate further into the dream-labyrinth of the Hypnerotomachia with James Russell, exploring the book's many early readers. These include a pope, a playwright, and an alchemist. Codes, rebuses, polyvalent images, esoteric architecture, and more meet in the melting-pot of Humanism.

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The Strife of Love in a Dream: James O’Neill Introduces the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

We introduce one of the strangest and most nigglingly-intriguing esoteric books of the Italian Renaissance, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. James O'Neill is our guide through nested dream-landscapes, erotic initiations, and weirdly-specific garden design.

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