{"id":621,"date":"2019-09-27T16:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2019-12-19T20:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:21:05","slug":"death-is-a-spiral-funeral-march-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/death-is-a-spiral-funeral-march-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Death is a Spiral \u2013 Funeral March (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\u201cHow can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us?\u201d<br>\u201cDeath is our eternal companion [\u2026] It is always to our left, at an arm&rsquo;s length.\u201d<br>\u2013 Carlos Castaneda, <em>Journey to Ixtlan<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heWmYm72GMw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><p><strong>1. Of \u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d and Luigi Russolo<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Like \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/03\/daudi-baldrs-ins-goda\/\">Dau\u00f0i Baldrs ins G\u00f3\u00f0a<\/a>\u201d, the short piece of music \u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d was commissioned by a radio station and based on the famed theme of the third movement titled <em>Marche fun\u00e8bre<\/em> of the Piano Sonata No. 2 by the Romantic-era composer and pianist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin. This time, the theme instead of being in service of funeral doom was treated in a martial industrial way, inspired by Laibach and ideas from the Italian Futurist painter and composer Luigi Russolo, author of the 1913 manifesto <em>L&rsquo;Arte dei Rumori<\/em> (The Art of Noises) and greatly interested in spirituality and occult arts too. Although he was certainly one of the precursors of noise music, referring to his pieces as \u201cspirals of noises\u201d, and considered that sounds \u2013 including those of war \u2013 from the modern era among others are able to produce pleasing sensations, his approach can not be reduced to a simple, materialistic exaltation of the machine in phase with the ideology of linear progress.<br><br>On the contrary, Russolo&rsquo;s attempt was to create an art that would dare to dig into the essence of things and reach their deepest spiritual level; ultimately, music rather than having a solely descriptive or banally documentary function would have to spiritualize its matter and sanctifying the noise: \u201cMusic must move away from an abstract indefinite, which is the characteristic of its language, and of the matter that it uses, to arrive at a spiritual infinite.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a> Luciano Chessa notes in <em>Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult<\/em>: \u201cAt its core, the art of noises was for Luigi Russolo a process of conjuring the spirits, a process he divided into two parallel moments: one in which noise became spiritualized, the other in which spirits materialized.\u201d An extract from a poem titled <em>Russolo <\/em>originally in French by another Futurist, Paolo Buzzi, could confirm Chessa&rsquo;s statement:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Luigi, the <em>ululatore<\/em> [\u201chowler\u201d] is the oracle<br>Of the god who inspires you and who will render you justice.<br>The abyss, our illustrious Relative, is grateful to you.<br>I hear the only true musics: those<br>That the dead hear,<br>Over their heads, under our feet.<br>The future City awakens<br>In an explosion that invites<br>The cemeteries to masked balls of power and desire!<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-623\" width=\"374\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_1.png 499w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_1-222x300.png 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><figcaption>Luigi Russolo, <em>Self-portrait with Skulls<\/em>, 1909. Founder of Futurism Marinetti described him as a \u201cskeletal sorcerer\u201d. Original name of the painting is <em>Autoritratto con teschi<\/em> and some sources give the date of 1908 as the year of its creation. Source: Wikimedia Commons. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><p><strong>2. Of the Aztecs, their worldview, and their post-mortem abodes compared to the Norse ones<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">The music video uses mainly pictures related to the Aztec<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[3]<\/a> tradition and scenes from the Mexican\nhorror film <em>The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy<\/em> (originally <em>La Momia Azteca contra el Robot Humano<\/em>),\ndirected by Rafael Portillo and released in 1958. This low-budget movie was the\nlast part of a trilogy, and if the scenes with actors playing Aztec people were\nsurely not a prime example of accurate historical reconstruction, their sombre\natmosphere and the hieratic attitude of the officiants can serve very well the\nIdea of the song. The Mesoamerican traditions, more particularly the Aztec one,\nhad a keen awareness of death and annihilation, knowing the transiency of life\nand the fact that at any time man facing a pitiless universe can be crushed by\nevents which are beyond his control. As recalled by Nezahualcoy\u014dtl, the great\npoet, philosopher and ruler of the city-state of Texcoco, close to the Aztec\ncapital M\u0113xihco-Ten\u014dchtitlan:<br><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:0;text-align:center\"><p style=\"text-align:center\">Oh, Lords,<br>We are mortal,<br>Our mortality defines us.<br>We all have to die,<br>We all have to go away,<br>Four by four, <br>all of us.<br>Like a painting,<br>We gradually fade.<a href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">But it was an active pessimism rooted in an agonistic worldview, noting that universe is a place where destruction inevitably follows creation in an interdependent way. The subsistence of the world is precarious, and possible only if the gods, who had created men and shaped the world, receive the crucial energy required to continue their fight against entropic forces in order to postpone the predictable disaster, notably through the \u201cprecious water\u201d, namely blood from autosacrifice, highly ritualistic wars (<em>x\u014dchiy\u0101\u014dy\u014dtl<\/em>, \u201cflowery war\u201d) and human sacrifice, a sacred debt payment to the gods. As Jacques Soustelle writes in <em>The Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest<\/em>: \u201cHuman sacrifice was an alchemy by which life was made out of death; and the gods themselves had given the example on the first day of creation. As for man, his very first duty was to provide nourishment [\u2026] \u02bdfor our mother and our father, the earth and the sun\u02bc. [\u2026] Nothing was born, nothing would endure, except by the blood of sacrifice.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Despite the impressive achievements of the Aztec Empire of Mexico\nand other Mesoamerican civilizations, human sacrifice is undoubtedly the most\nincomprehensible part of their <em>Weltanschauung<\/em>\nfor Christians and modernity, which in their view could only be the act of\ndemons worshippers, barbarians, superstition, or imperialism. Every culture\npossesses its own notion of what is cruel or not; if we look at the numerous\ncrimes of Christianity and other Abrahamic religions committed in the name of\n\u201cthe one, true faith\u201d or those of the modern world, including its pure\natheistic or so-called humanist forms, they do not reflect a more compassionate\nattitude or superior moral standards&#8230; Aztecs were horrified by the atrocities\nsuch as massacres, mutilations, tortures perpetrated by conquistadores, and the\nvery idea of \u201ctotal war\u201d was alien to their culture.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">In our view, modern man has in most cases a very limited perception\nof his environment, both physical and subtle, and ignores the fact that\nlandscapes are also inhabited by spirits. To make possible a human settlement\nwithout too much trouble, it may be necessary to offer compensation to placate\nthe spirits of a place. During a travel in Mexico, we had thus to deal with\ninorganic beings strongly attracted by fresh blood. It is worth noting also\nthat some academics and indigenous movements deny the existence of human\nsacrifice or at least their extent.<a href=\"#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[5]<\/a>\nFurthermore, it is important to understand that sacrificial death was\nhonourable and even desirable, an opportunity to gain immortal glory and a post\nmortem fate far more interesting than the common one, so much so that some of\nthe sacrificial victims indignantly rejected the offer of release and the\npossibility to live with great riches, and demanded to be sacrificed.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Because for the Aztec tradition like for the Norse one, the form of death was the deciding factor determining the dwelling-place where people could go to in the afterlife. Thus if we make a non-exhaustive comparison table showing some of the post mortem destinations, knowing that there was no formal doctrine in both traditions and that our understanding is still limited:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-624\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\"\/><figcaption> Partial comparison of the Norse and Aztec post mortem abodes. Note that to our knowledge, the Old Norse sources do not specify exactly the name of the place for drowned men. <em>\u00c6gis hallir<\/em> (\u201challs of \u00c6gir\u201d), <em>R\u00e1nar salr<\/em> (\u201cR\u00e1n&rsquo;s hall\u201d), and <em>R\u00e1nheimr<\/em> (\u201cR\u00e1n&rsquo;s world\u201d) very rarely appear in Old Norse poetry. Some are kenningar for the sea. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">The table is in no way complete, as there are\nalternative possibilities proper to each tradition: for one, Aztec women who\ndied in childbirth also joined the house of the sun and underwent\ntransformation into \u201cdivine women\u201d (<em>Cihu\u0101t\u0113teoh<\/em>),\nand so on. We note that for the Aztec and Norse warrior, the most desirable\nfate was to become c<em>u\u0101uht\u0113catl<\/em> \u201ccompanion of the eagle\u201d to accompany\nT\u014dnatiuh, the sun deity, and <em>einheri<\/em>, \u201cthe one who fights alone\u201d or \u201cthe\none who belongs to an army\u201d, to dwell with \u00d3\u00f0inn. But the usual afterlife abode\nfor people who died of old age or disease was Mictl\u0101n and Hel, after a journey.\nBoth chthonic worlds are mistily situated in the north<a href=\"#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[6]<\/a>\nand are conceived as rather gloomy, cold places. Rulers of the Aztec Hades are Mictl\u0101nt\u0113cutli,\n\u201cLord of the place of the dead\u201d, and Mict\u0113cacihu\u0101tl, also named Mictl\u0101ncihu\u0101tl\n\u201cWoman [Lady] of the place of the dead\u201d, whilst Hel, the Norse underworld\nrealm, is run by the eponymous feminine entity, whose name is ultimately\nderived from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*kel-<\/em>, \u201cto cover, conceal\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Despite the yoke of the prominent materialistic ideologies, modern-day Mexico still considers that death and life are closely related, death being a natural part of the human cycle, and has maintained a reverence towards dead with holidays such as <em>D\u00eda de Muertos <\/em>(Day of the Dead)<em>, <\/em>where the deceased are celebrated and receive offerings. The assertion, that it is in fact a recent creation of nationalistic or Christian origin instead of a resurgence of pre-Hispanic traditions rooted in Aztec festivities in honour of the goddess Mict\u0113cacihu\u0101tl, is irrelevant for our purpose: the most essential point is that it is a living veneration of the ancestors and dead.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-625\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_3.png 999w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_3-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_3-768x540.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Scorh taken in a cemetery in the rain during <em>D\u00eda de Muertos<\/em> in the state of Michoac\u00e1n, Mexico, 2007. License <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><p><strong>3. Of the unofficial folk saint Santa Muerte<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">In Mexico today, life presents many chaotic\nand threatening elements. For people \u2013 as in other countries too \u2013 in the\nmargins of conventional society, utilitarian magic and devotion can be the sole\nway to get some help in difficult life situations, a kind of last resort. Whence the growing worship of the unofficial folk saint Nuestra\nSe\u00f1ora de la Santa Muerte (\u201cOur Lady of Holy Death\u201d), also known as \u201cthe Skinny\nLady\u201d, \u201cthe Bony Lady\u201d, \u201cthe White Girl\u201d, \u201cthe Powerful Lady\u201d, \u201cLady of\nShadows\u201d, \u201cBlack Lady\u201d, to name a few of her alternate names. A quotation from\na devotee renders very well her mighty status and that in a crisis situation,\nshe can be the last reliable ally: \u201cI don\u2019t know if God exists, but death\nyes&#8230; Death is stronger than life, as she puts an end to it. In view of a lack\nof meaning of life, there is an excess of meaning of death.\u201d<a href=\"#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Although Santa Muerte genre is ambiguous, she is mostly\ndepicted as a female skeletal figure that owes much to the mediaeval European\nGrim Reaper and representations of death like the Danse Macabre. But her\nsyncretic cult, in addition to Catholicism, may have been possibly influenced\nby folk Afro-Caribbean traditions and may constitute a reminiscence of the\nAztec netherworld deities Mictl\u0101nt\u0113cutli and Mict\u0113cacihu\u0101tl. Santa Muerte is\nsometimes shown with an owl, a nocturnal bird who was considered a messenger of\nMictl\u0101n&rsquo;s rulers, connected with the underworld. Veneration of death and skulls\nwas common in ancient Mexico, as evidenced by <em>tzompantli<\/em>, an Aztec ceremonial rack of skulls.\nBecause of the risks of persecution involved, it may be necessary to disguise\npagan practices and deities behind Christian rags. Needless\nto say, Sant\u00edsima Muerte cult, which also attracts social outcasts or people\nwho deal with despised or dangerous activities (criminals, prostitutes,\npolicemen&#8230;), transgression and transitions, is frowned upon by authorities,\nmedia and the Catholic Church, that declared that veneration of Santa Muerte is\nnot consistent with Catholic teaching, blasphemous, and is tantamount of\nSatanism. The president of the Vatican&rsquo;s Pontifical Council for Culture,\nCardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, stated that Santa Muerte worship was a \u201cdegeneration\nof religion\u201d. Some of her followers have even been stigmatized as\n\u201cnarco-satanic\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Norse deity Hel, sometimes anglicised as Hela, may have today a liminal role similar to Santa Muerte in some groups composed of marginal parts of the heathen demography.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_4-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-626\" width=\"288\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_4-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_4-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_4.png 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><figcaption>Statue of Red Sant\u00edsima Muerte, 2010, public domain. The colour of the robe has a symbolic and operative function, the same for the candles used. She is dressed differently depending on what kind of favour is required. Red is associated with love stuff. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><p><strong>4. Of Carlos Castaneda and some notions presented in his books<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Last element related to \u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d and Mexico which will be\nbriefly discussed here is the work of Carlos Castaneda. We are well aware that\nthere is a lot of controversy about the veracity of the Castanedian corpus and\nthe personality of its author, but in our case we are not interested in the\nquestion of factual authenticity or to know if he was influenced by\nphenomenology, Aldous Huxley, or the <em>M\u0101dhyamaka<\/em> school of Buddhism\nrather than by indigenous lore. The worldview and techniques contained in his\nbooks are eminently subversive for the confined world created by the\ndictatorship of reason, which was able to reduce the unfathomable mystery of\nthe universe to a \u201cmanageable nonsense\u201d. Therefore, it is not surprising that\nsome people have exerted much effort to debunk Castaneda\u2019s accounts, pointing\nup his narrative incoherences, and thus, in the end, trying to rend them\ninsignificant for those who are prisoners of the \u201csuperstition of facts\u201d.\nCastaneda himself writes in the prologue to <em>The Eagle&rsquo;s Gift<\/em>: \u201cI am very\nfar away from my point of origin as an average Western man or as an\nanthropologist, and I must first of all reiterate that this is not a work of\nfiction. What I am describing is alien to us; therefore, it seems unreal.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Whether or not it was a forgery, his\nself-sufficient work is definitively a gateway to nonordinary reality and the\ntestimony of someone who has <em>seen<\/em>. As previously said in a note in our\nshort essay about Julius Evola&rsquo;s book <em>Ride the Tiger<\/em>, the\n\u201cdifferentiated man\u201d and our song \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/03\/der-ritt-auf-dem-tiger-live-at-cinema-oblo-2008\/\">Der Ritt auf\ndem Tiger<\/a>\u201d, don\nJuan Matus, Castaneda&rsquo;s chief spiritual mentor, \u201cmay not be an organic being but an inorganic\none from nonordinary reality, or Casteneda\u2019s didactic creation to explain his\nown experiences and philosophy, a Platonic noble lie; what really matters for a\ndifferentiated man is the practical value of Castaneda\u2019s teachings and\nterminology.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Philosophy (\u201clove of knowledge\u201d,\n\u201cpursuit of wisdom\u201d) for us must obviously not be understood as an individual\nspeculative though or an useless knowledge of facts, gathering of information,\nbut rather as an operative gnosis, whose the higher purpose is ultimately to\nrecover our original nature identical to the Absolute (the spiritual\nliberation), beyond the superimpositions and ignorance hiding it, or at least\nto attempt it. The great metaphysicist and Indian&rsquo;s art philosopher Ananda\nKentish Coomaraswamy recalls in his essay <em>On the Indian and<\/em> <em>Traditional\nPsychology, or Rather Pneumatology<\/em><a href=\"#_edn8\" name=\"_ednref8\">[8]<\/a>\nthat \u201cthe traditional psychology is not, in fact, based on observation; it is a\nscience of subjective experience. Its truth is not of the kind that is\nsusceptible of statistical demonstration; it is one that can only be verified\nby the expert contemplative. In other words, its truth can only be verified by\nthose who adopt the procedure prescribed by its proponents, and that is called\na \u02bdWay\u02bc. In this respect it resembles the truth of facts, but with this\ndifference, that the Way must be followed by every individual for himself;\nthere can be no public \u02bdproof\u02bc. By verification, we mean, of course, an\nascertainment and experience, and not such a persuasion as may result from a\nmerely logical understanding.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Knowing that it is impossible to summarize in some lines an intricate, deep work like that of Castaneda, we will only examine a few points relevant to the differentiated man defined in Evola&rsquo;s book <em>Ride the Tiger<\/em>, a rare type of man still able to carry out a spiritual quest despite the very negative conditions of the modern world and of Kali-Yuga, the Dark Age. The core idea behind the differentiated man is borrowed from Left-Hand Tantrism, and in our opinion the Castanedian way has also a \u201csinister\u201d dimension, in the sense of \u201con the left side\u201d based on the Latin etymology of the word, as some practices and doctrinal elements may sound really disturbing, absurd, dangerous \u2013&nbsp; that is indeed the case \u2013 or \u201cevil\u201d for someone more accustomed to a sattvic, dexter religious view and methods.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"527\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_5.png 1002w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_5-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_5-768x404.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><figcaption> Mural in the famous archaeological site Te\u014dt\u012bhuac\u0101n \u201cthe place where one becomes a god\/spirit\u201d, formerly an important ancient Mesoamerican religious centre predating the Aztec settlement in the Valley of Mexico. Photo by Scorh, 2007. License <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">We note first the important notion of <em>power<\/em>, to be understood not in the sense of social dominion, but as a sacred, magical and impersonal force, which can be gained or lost by acts and may be found to varying degrees in nature, places, entities, living beings, objects, and so forth. It is a mystery outside the reach of reason, which cannot be logically inferred but possibly <em>perceived <\/em>as a feeling or vibration, and stored. As don Juan puts it in <em>Journey to Ixtlan<\/em>, \u201ca man is only the sum of his personal <em>power<\/em>, and that sum determines how he lives and how he dies.\u201d At birth, each one receives a certain amount of personal <em>power<\/em>, from small to enormous, which is contingent among other things on his ancestors. If our starting capital does not depend on our will, we have however the choice to dissipate or increase it, bearing in mind that \u201cif we don&rsquo;t have enough personal <em>power<\/em>, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won&rsquo;t make a damn bit of difference\u201d (<em>Tales of Power<\/em>).<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Seeing the world as <em>power<\/em> is an approach which is to be found in several traditions like North Amerindian and Polynesian ones, but also in Tantrism, the \u201cfifth Veda\u201d adapted to our current era, and in the <em>\u015a\u0101kta\u1e25<\/em> branch of Hinduism, which unlike the Vedantic viewpoint emphasize <em>\u015bakti<\/em> \u201cpower, energy\u201d, the feminine kinetic aspect of the Absolute (Brahman) regarded as the divine biunity \u015aiva\/\u015aakti. Sometimes a fierce goddess like K\u0101l\u012b is even portrayed as the supreme principle of the universe, identified with the Brahman. A Tantra states about \u015aakti: \u201cThou art all power. It is by Thy power that we are powerful.\u201d Another text adds: \u201c\u015aakti is the root of every finite existence. The worlds are Her manifestation; She supports them and one day they will be reabsorbed into Her&#8230; She is the supreme Brahman (Parabrahman)&#8230; She is the mother of all the gods; without \u015aakti they would cease to exist.\u201d There is a play of words saying that \u201c\u015aiva without the \u02bdi\u02bc of \u015aakti (power) is but an empty corpse (<em>\u015bava<\/em>)\u201d. For adepts of Tantrism, only practices based on <em>\u015bakti<\/em> are efficacious in our age and a Tantric commentator has two significant remarks, which could be have made by don Juan: \u201cthings are power\u201d and \u201cthe<em> <\/em>power of a thing does not wait for intellectual recognition\u201d.<a href=\"#_edn9\" name=\"_ednref9\">[9]<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">The cosmogony exposed in the Castanedian corpus, in particular in <em>The\nFire from Within<\/em> and <em>The Eagle&rsquo;s Gift<\/em>, is neither creationism nor\nmaterialism but rather emanationism, all things being emanations of the first\nprinciple <em>seen<\/em> as \u201can indescribable force which is the source of all\nsentient beings\u201d and worlds. It is called \u201cthe Eagle, not because it is an\neagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer\nas an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands, its\nheight reaching to infinity.\u201d The old seers found also that \u201cThe Eagle creates\nsentient beings so that they will live and enrich the awareness it gives them\nwith life. They also saw that it is the Eagle who devours that same enriched\nawareness after making sentient beings relinquish it at the moment of death\u201d,\nas awareness is the Eagle&rsquo;s food. The human part of the Eagle is too\ninsignificant to be sensitive to prayers, but he has granted a gift to all\nliving beings: the possibility to keep the flame of awareness and \u201cto seek an\nopening to freedom and to go through it\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Compared to the Eagle, the hypercosmic ruler, the most tyrannical men \u2013 catalogued as \u201cpetty tyrants\u201d \u2013 are but buffoons destined as their victims to be finally devoured; only a man following a path of <em>power<\/em> has a slight chance to escape to the common fate of the living beings. This relentless worldview is not so far of several esoteric streams, as in some ancient Greek mysteries where sole the initiate will know a valuable post mortem destiny, independently of morals, social status or intellectual abilities. We found also in the <em>B\u1e5bhad\u0101ra\u1e47yaka Upani\u1e63ad <\/em>this provocative statement: \u201cThere was nothing whatsoever here in the beginning. It was covered only by Death [<em>m\u1e5bty\u00fa<\/em>], or Hunger, for hunger is death. He created the mind, thinking, \u02bdMay I be animated!\u02bc<a href=\"#_edn10\" name=\"_ednref10\">[10]<\/a> So Death created life for food, which is not a comforting view but pretty motivating to follow a spiritual path and is quite similar to the view of the Eagle perceived as the source of everything by the old Mexican seers, according to Castaneda. Besides immediate material benefits, the Vedic sacrifice was also intended to procure the real immortality, not that gross one researched by transhumanism and science. Castaneda gives in <em>The Eagle&rsquo;s Gift<\/em> an incantation both in Spanish and English he received \u201cfor times when my task would be greater than my strength\u201d, destined to reveal to him \u201ca practical maneuver of the second attention\u201d:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\u201cI am already given to the power that rules my fate.<br>And I cling to nothing, <br>so I will have nothing to defend.<br>I have no thoughts, <br>so I will see.<br>I fear nothing, <br>so I will remember myself.<br>Detached and at ease,<br>I will dart past the Eagle to be free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">In Castaneda\u2019s work, there are a lot of doctrinal elements about\nperception, the couple nagual\/tonal etc. and teachings which could be very\nuseful to a differentiated man, such as dreaming \u2013 not the Freudian ordinary\ntype of dreams of modern men, garbage can of repressed desires, but lucid or\npowerful ones \u2013, stalking, not-doing, stopping the world, the possible use of\nentheogens, a non-ordinary way of walking, recapitulation, the grandness of\ndeath as adviser, and so on. We will only consider here the notions of warrior,\nimpeccability, erasing personal history, and eliminating self-importance. First\nof all, life is an energy dispersion, both vital and subtle, ending finally in\ndeath, and that is the common lot of men from time immemorial. To gain <em>power\n<\/em>and thus to be able to get around the Eagle&rsquo;s beak, to achieve the\n\u201ctotality of himself\u201d or spiritual liberation asks to stop to behave as if we\nare immortal beings and refrain from energy wasting.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Amongst the means suggested by Castaneda and his mentors for a\nspiritual warrior to replenish his personal <em>power<\/em>, impeccability is of\nprime importance and accessible to everyone. Don Juan in <em>Tales of Power<\/em>\ndefines it simply with these words: \u201cImpeccability is to do your best in\nwhatever you&rsquo;re engaged in.\u201d He answers later to an objection from Castaneda:\n\u201cIt&rsquo;s not as complicated as you make it appear. The key to all these matters of\nimpeccability is the sense of having or not having time. As a rule of thumb,\nwhen you feel and act like an immortal being that has all the time in the world\nyou are not impeccable; at those times you should turn, look around, and then\nyou will realize that your feeling of having time is an idiocy. There are no\nsurvivors on this earth!\u201d Impeccability should not be confused with morality:\nit is the best use of our energy level while \u201cmost people move from act to act\nwithout any struggle or thought. A hunter, on the contrary, assesses every act;\nand since he has an intimate knowledge of his death, he proceeds judiciously,\nas if every act were his last battle.\u201d (<em>Journey to Ixtlan<\/em>).<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-628\" width=\"383\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_6.png 510w, https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/spiral_6-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><figcaption> The day glyph <em>miquiztli<\/em> (death) associated with the cardinal point north used in the T\u014dnalp\u014dhualli, one of the Aztec calendar systems. Aztecs had a view not only quantitative but also qualitative of time. Glyph by Katepanomegas, 2009, license <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY 3.0<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">This echoes an analogous perspective in <em>Ride the Tiger<\/em>, when\nEvola writes about \u201cacting without desire\u201d, meaning: \u201cwithout regard to the\nfruits, without being affected by the chances of success or failure, victory or\ndefeat, winning or losing, any more than by pleasure or pain, or by the\napproval or disapproval of others. [\u2026] The higher dimension, which is presumed\nto be present in oneself, manifests through the capacity to act not with less,\nbut with more application than a normal type of man could bring to the ordinary\nforms of conditioned action. One can also speak here of \u02bddoing what needs to be\ndone\u02bc, &nbsp;impersonally.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Referring to a statement by the French writer Charles P\u00e9guy, Evola\nremarks: \u201ca work well done is a reward in itself, and that the true artisan\nputs the same care into a work to be seen, and into one that remains unseen.\u201d\nIn a society dominated by the utilitarian demands of yield and increased\nproductivity, confusing action with agitation, unable to focus at length on one\nthing, it can be hard to practise it, but this is evidently a necessary\nattitude for a differentiated man.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">In the modern era, normally a human being receives from birth a\nrestrictive description of the world based on reason<a href=\"#_edn11\" name=\"_ednref11\">[11]<\/a>\nthat he will generally hold as the only true one, and which will be reinforced\nby the social institutions, forgetting that \u201cit is monstrous to think that the\nworld is understandable or that we ourselves are understandable\u201d (<em>The\nEagle&rsquo;s Gift<\/em>). Consequently, the first challenge for a person engaged in a\nspiritual quest is to be able to adopt a non-materialistic description of the\nworld and follow the precepts required to verify the validity of the way, in\naccordance with his own capacity, knowing that on the ultimate level, there\nexists no way and no description able to render in words the <em>unknown<\/em> and\nthe <em>unknowable<\/em>. There are some similarities between the path of the\nwarrior related in Castaneda&rsquo;s writings and that of the Tantric <em>v\u012bra<\/em> (hero), requiring a purification of the will and\nthe release of bondage, keeping in mind that according to a Tantra cited in <em>The\nYoga of Power<\/em>, \u201call the means employed must be experienced\nwithout disgust, concupiscence, or attachment\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">The excessive maintenance of our ego and self-importance \u2013 our\n\u201cgreatest enemy\u201d \u2013 consumes a great amount of energy unnecessarily, which could\nbe used for a higher purpose, and produces a terrible mental tension, often\nunconscious. The feeling that we are the most prominent being on earth renders\nus incapable to fully perceive the world around us, including its subtle\nlevels. Hence the value of erasing personal history and of losing\nself-importance. Don Juan recalls in <em>Journey to Ixtlan<\/em>: \u201cIt is best to\nerase all personal history [&#8230;] because that would make us free from the\nencumbering thoughts of other people.\u201d Routines, contrary to the practices\nrequired by the way, make us vulnerable and transform us into preys. There are\nstrategic means given in Castaneda&rsquo;s work for eradicating self-importance and\npersonal history such as control, discipline, forbearance, timing, <em>will<\/em>,\nto establish an inventory of habitual behaviours, and recapitulation<a href=\"#_edn12\" name=\"_ednref12\">[12]<\/a>, which sets free energy confined within\nus because of the impact of events experienced during our life. In <em>The Fire\nfrom Within<\/em>, don Juan explains: \u201cWarriors prepare themselves to be aware,\nand full awareness comes to them only when there is no more self-importance\nleft in them. Only when they are nothing do they become everything.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">This quotation is in accordance with the Traditionalist School: thus the epitaph <em>hic jacet nemo<\/em> \u201chere lies no one\u201d desired by Coomaraswamy or Evola&rsquo;s consideration about the \u201cactive impersonality\u201d of the <em>absolute person<\/em>, opposed to the passive impersonality suffered by the modern man, in a world marked by the anonymity of metropolises and the triumph of individualism combined with the rise of masses, since both are mutually reliant. In <em>Ride the Tiger<\/em>, Evola distinguishes between the person and the individual: the individual is a formless, numerical \u201ctheoretical unity\u201d, while the person, as per its Latin etymology <em>pers\u014dna<\/em> is a \u201cmask, character\u201d, the mask that ancient actors wore in incarnating a given personage, having thus a typical, non-individual function. Contrary to the individual, the person \u201c<em>is not closed to the above\u201d<\/em>, but according to Evola&rsquo;s words is \u201cthat which the man presents concretely and sensibly in the world, in the position he occupies, <em>but always signifying a form of expression and manifestation of a higher principle in which the true center of being is to be recognized<\/em>, and on which falls, or should fall, the accent of the Self.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">In the atomized world today in which we live, the use of Castanedian\n<em>controlled folly<\/em> and the art of stalking opposed to the ordinary madness\nof the human society could already be a concrete means of survival&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">We will conclude our notes about \u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d with this sentence of don Juan from <em>The Power of Silence<\/em>: \u201cman needs now, more so than ever, to be taught new ideas that have to do exclusively with his inner world \u2013 sorcerers&rsquo; ideas, not social ideas, ideas pertaining to man facing the unknown, facing his personal death.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><p><strong>5. Credits\n<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Credits for the music video, all material reworked:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Tzompantli at Templo Mayor, Mexico City, photo by Scorh, 2007<\/li><li>The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy, Mexican film directed by Rafael\nPortillo, 1958<\/li><li>Tecpatl glyph and god Mictl\u0101nt\u0113cutli from the Codex Borgia by Katepanomegas, 2009, licensed under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative\nCommons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attribution\n3.0<\/a><\/li><li>Spiral CIMG0420 by Daniel, 2011, licensed under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Commons Attribution 2.0<\/a><\/li><li>Disc of Mictl\u0101nt\u0113cutli, shown at the\nNational Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, photo by Anagoria,\n2013, licensed under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative\nCommons<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0\/deed.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attribution\n3.0<\/a><\/li><li>Picture of Mict\u0113cacihu\u0101tl from the Codex Borgia<\/li><li>Santa Muerte, Nuevo Laredo, photo by El Comandante, 2007, CC<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\">Music video by Mordor, 2019; music by Mordor\/Chopin, 2007. Some samples used in \u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d can not be properly credited due to the lacking references.<br>Recorded, mixed and mastered at Dark Sound Studio, 2007.<br>\u201cDeath is a Spiral\u201d is dedicated to Carlos Castaneda.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[1]<\/a> Luigi Russolo, quoted in Luciano\nChessa,&nbsp; <em>Luigi Russolo, Futurist:\nNoise, Visual Arts, and the Occult<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[2]<\/a> Poem translated in English in Luciano\nChessa, <em>Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult<\/em>. The\nhowler is one of the noise instruments invented by Russolo, producing a noise\nbetween that of a traditional string instrument and of that a siren.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[3]<\/a> We use by convention the term \u201cAztec\u201d (derived from the Nahuatl words <em>aztecatl<\/em>, singular, and <em>aztecah<\/em>, plural) instead of \u201cMexica\u201d or \u201cMexitin\u201d to denote the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people that settled in the Valley of Mexico after an arduous migratory process, who employed themselves the endonyms <em>M\u0113xihcah <\/em>or <em>Mexitin, <\/em>and their allies, to avoid confusion with present-day people of the United Mexican States. \u201cAztec\u201d is based on the notion that this group of tribes according to some ancient chronicles came from <em>Aztl\u0101n<\/em>, a mythical place of origin and ancestral home, often depicted as an island located vaguely in the north, which is symbolically in our view far more significant than the actual geographical locus, north being a place of origin in several traditions. In one account, when Hu\u012btzil\u014dp\u014dchtli, the tutelary deity of the Aztecs, ordered them to migrate, he also requested on the road that they change their ethnonym Azteca to Mexitin [Mexica].<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[4]<\/a> Extract from a poem quoted in Manuel Aguilar-Moreno, <em>Handbook to Life in the Aztec World.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[5]<\/a> Thus academic Wolfgang Haberland in his article <em>La Vall\u00e9e de\nMexico<\/em> published in <em>Les Azt\u00e8ques, Tr\u00e9sors du Mexique Ancien<\/em>,\nconsiders that we should probably cut two zeros to the number of sacrificial\nvictims during the enthronement of <em>tlahto\u0101ni <\/em>(ruler) \u0100huitzotl.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[6]<\/a> In Nahuatl, there is the locution <em>mictl\u0101mpa<\/em> \u201ctoward the\nregion of the dead, the north\u201d. For the place Hel ruled by the deity of the\nsame name, there is succinct information in Snorri Sturluson&rsquo;s <em>Gylfaginning <\/em>that \u201cdownwards and\nnorthwards (<em>ni\u00f0r<\/em> <em>ok nor\u00f0r<\/em>) lies\nthe road to Hel\u201d. In the Eddic poem <em>Baldrs draumar<\/em>, \u00d3\u00f0inn <em>rei\u00f0 ni\u00f0r\n\u00fea\u00f0an niflheljar<\/em><em> til<\/em><em> <\/em>\u201crode thence down to Niflhel\u201d to question a dead seeress. Niflhel\n\u201cMisty Hel\u201d might be identical to Hel or the lowest level of this realm. It is\nalso Snorri who mentions that \u201cthose who die of sickness or old age\u201d go to Hel.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[7]<\/a> From <em>Testimonies of Santa Muerte devotees from Tepito<\/em>,\nquoted in Ma\u0142gorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, <em>Fierce Feminine\nDivinities of Eurasia and Latin America<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref8\" name=\"_edn8\">[8]<\/a> Published in <em>Metaphysics<\/em>, a collection of Coomaraswamy&rsquo;s\nessays, edited by Roger Lipsey. The traditional psychology is of course not the\nmodern psychology, as it is a pneumatology rooted in metaphysics and in the immortal Self\nrather than in the psyche.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref9\" name=\"_edn9\">[9]<\/a> All excerpts from the Tantric texts quoted\nhere are taken from Julius Evola, <em>The Yoga of Power<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref10\" name=\"_edn10\">[10]<\/a> English translation from <em>The<\/em> <em>B\u1e5bhad\u0101ra\u1e47yaka Upani\u1e63ad with the commentary of \u015aa\u1e45kar\u0101c\u0101rya <\/em>&nbsp;by Sw\u0101m\u012b M\u0101dh\u0101nanda, revised in the light of the French one found in Jean Varenne, <em>Cosmogonies V\u00e9diques<\/em>. There are many discrepancies between the different available translations, due to the difficulty to render Sanskrit texts in modern languages, that often a Sanskrit word has multiple meanings and therefore the translator has to make a choice depending on the context, his own paradigms and understanding. The commentary of \u015aa\u1e45kar\u0101c\u0101rya refutes the nihilistic viewpoint possibly suggested by \u201cthere was nothing&#8230;\u201d, meaning in fact \u201cthere was nothing whatsoever differentiated by name and form here, in the universe, in the beginning, i.e. before the manifestation of the mind etc.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref11\" name=\"_edn11\">[11]<\/a> Reason is an useful tool that has unfortunately become an end in\nitself, a guard who turned into a jailer, focusing on an \u201cobsessive\nmanipulation of the <em>known<\/em>\u201d. Beyond the duality of rational and\nirrational, there is the domain of the suprarational.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align:justify\"><a href=\"#_ednref12\" name=\"_edn12\">[12]<\/a> Recapitulation is not a therapy based on speech like psychoanalysis.\nIt consists of \u201crecollecting one&rsquo;s life down to the most insignificant detail\u201d\nto lose the <em>human form<\/em>, defined as \u201ca sticky force that makes us the\npeople we are\u201d, composed of habits and received opinions proper to the human\naffairs and conditioning us. In order to really change, a warrior must drop the\n<em>human form<\/em>. Recapitulation is also a key to shift the <em>assemblage\npoint<\/em> located in our subtle body, by which we assemble the ordinary world\nor others. An involuntary shift of this point can cause great damages.\nCastaneda describes a recapitulation method using breathing, a crate, quietness\nand solitude in his writings, but there are other ones working on the \u201cenergy\nmemory\u201d of the major issues of our life. Since awareness is the Eagle&rsquo;s food,\nhe<strong> <\/strong>can be\nsatisfied with a perfect recapitulation instead of consciousness. For Hinduism,\nthe weight of the imprints and patterns which limits our freedom even goes back\nto well beyond the events experienced in one incarnation.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cHow can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us?\u201d\u201cDeath is our eternal companion [\u2026] It is always to our left, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/death-is-a-spiral-funeral-march-2007\/\" title=\"Death is a Spiral \u2013 Funeral March (2007)\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Death is a Spiral \u2013 Funeral March (2007) - Mordor Swiss Official<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mordorswiss.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/27\/death-is-a-spiral-funeral-march-2007\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Death is a Spiral \u2013 Funeral March (2007) - 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