Tales from the Map of Imagination (MOI)
The map of Imagination (MOI) is a part of the the novel Carmen Via and also of the Exploration books, written and researched by us, for our guests. It is history, art, philosophy, not treated academically, but transmuted as into gaudy blocks of childrens' playrooms and midsummer nights' dreams. It is storytelling, myth-telling, metaphor-telling and tecno-age comunication skills fused, distilled and synchronized.
Here are but a few examples of tales and themes of imagination, which you will encounter in landscapes and townlands of Italia, when you travel with us:
Reflections in the Lake of Memory (Lake Vico)
Man asked Mnemosyne …if such exaggerated ecstasies about ghastly human plights might not conceal some clue to the riddles of existence…..(conversations with Mnemosyne)
Tales from Heroes Coasts (coasts of Latium running to Sicily) Odysseys and homecomings after the war of Troy.
Travels in the Netherworld (Cuma Naples) Down into the river Styx and Averno, with Charon and Cerberus. The vicinity of a great ancient oracle. How did the Sybil answer men's petitions ? Oracles and the birth of philosophy.
In Search of the Etruscan Song (Lake Bolsena, Tarquinia, Cerveteri, Norchia, San Giovenale, Sutri and Tuscany) The incredible story, which the Etruscan haruspices (shamans) don't easily tell about themselves. About their faustian pact to control the elements, and the fateful consequences of this power.
What is helpless potency ? (Capitol, Forum, Palatine, Caracalla, Colosseum, Appian Way). What is the karma of a people condemned to conquer ? Roman Empire but also USA. The old story of omnipotence.
The Tale of Quo Vadis (Old Appian Way, Colosseum, St Peter’s, Santa Maria del Popolo) What happened when St. Peter tried to escape Nero’s persecutions but met Jesus Christ coming the other way ? The tale of a cur in a resplendent body.
The Bar-bars are coming! (Via Flaminia (the Flaminia consular road) What Germanic barbarian tribes represented to classical culture and European aristocracy. How do you fight someone who has nothing to lose ? How do you deal with impinging chaos ?
The real Excalibur (Montesiepi,San Galgano, Tuscany) 800 years after King Arthur, the Archangel Michael reconsigns Excalibur to a stony sheath upon the hill of Montesiepi, Siena, where it can be seen today.
The Celestine Prophecy (Aquila and Rome) The mystic, Celestine V, renounced his papal tiara, suffered persecution but visits mens dreams, in the current era, to dictate instructions.
