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Join us in the second part of our enthralling series with acclaimed author, Richard Gavin. Please listen first part before continuing with this episode.Youtube: https://youtu.be/zkSJAHWSl9w or Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-csie7-1423d57
We delve deeper into an array of captivating topics:
- The presence of sacred horror and the liminal in music, films, and literature.- Exploring the Benighted paths in the world.- Unveiling the concept of the Liminal and discussing its potential hazards and pitfalls.- Grappling with the phenomena of 'occult hangover' or spiritual burnout.- Examining the role of the 'Daimon' in the creative process and its ruthless influence on the artist.- Introducing Theia mania, also known as divine madness.- Discussing 'The Wholly Other,' a concept by Rudolf Otto.- Interpreting the spirits or entities within the occult context.- Analyzing the concept of anomaly.- Revealing an encounter with the Other, illustrated through a colleague's first-hand experience.
Please be aware, due to unforeseen audio issues, this episode has been meticulously assembled from four separate recording sessions. We appreciate your understanding and patience.
Listen the episode in Podbean:https://rihmastosignaali.podbean.com/…
Watch the episode in Youtube:https://youtu.be/PkmI8vPU84U
Host: Konstantin Tuonihovi Sound editing: Konstantin Tuonihovi Music: Matias Takala Additional voice talent: Tomi Antila
Richard Gavin’s website:http://www.richardgavin.net
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CREDITS:
Host: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Sound editing: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Music: Matias Takala (intro/outro) 
Voice Talent: Martin Locker
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We're delighted to introduce our special guest from the United States, Kyle Spanswick, also known as Naas Alcameth. He's an exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist reowned from the occult black metal bands Akhlys, Aoratos, Bestia Arcana, and Nightbringer. In our insightful conversation, we delve deep into a myriad of compelling topics, including:
- Synchronicities and the need for pragmatism to avoid the infamous ‘liminal rabbit hole.'
- Akhlys’s eagerly anticipated new album and it's themes.
- The thematic layers of Aoratos’s album, 'Gods without name'.
- The meaning behind Aoratos’s 'Parallax Pt. I and II' and 'Dread Spirit of the Place,' as well as Akhlys’s 'Pnigalion' and 'Incubo.'
- The Abject dread aspect of Genius Loci.
- Sleep paralysis and other disturbing parasomnia.
- Daimon as a ruthless Muse for the artist.
- Sacred Horror and 'Metaphysical panic'.
- The Dark Night of the Soul and harrowing transcendental experiences as means of ultimate catharsis.
 
To round off the episode, our previous guest, Dr. Martin Locker, graces us with a dramatic recitation of a section from Bestia Arcana’s apocalyptic 'Hellmouth' lyrics.LINKS
Akhlys:https://akhlys.bandcamp.comAoratos:https://aoratos.bandcamp.com/
Nightbringer:https://nightbringer.bandcamp.com
Bardo Methodology magazine’s Akhlys interview:http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2020/10/14/akhlys/Bardo Methodology magazine’s Aoratos interview:http://www.bardomethodology.com/articles/2019/10/09/aoratos-interview/
 
Watch episode in YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ofnlsbmEZOs
CREDITS:Host: Konstantin Tuonihovi
Guest: Naas Alcameth
Sound editing: Konstantin Tuonihovi
Music: Matias Takala
Recitation of Bestia Arcana’s Hellmouth’s lyrics: Dr. Martin Locker
 
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We're thrilled to introduce our special guest today, author Richard Gavin from Canada. He is a renowned  for his works where the uncanny and the divine intersect. His critically acclaimed stories of the eerie and the nightmarish have been compiled in numerous books, including "Grotesquerie", "Sylvan Dread: Tales of Pastoral Darkness", and "At Fear's Altar", just to mention a few. Richard's non-fiction work also embellishes the pages of several journals, including the Rue Morgue magazine and Starfire Journal, as well as Clavis: Journal of Occult Arts, Letters, and Experience. His books, such as "The Benighted Path" and "The Moribund Portal: Spectral Resonance and the Numen of the Gallows", have earned acclaim for their exploration of non-fiction esoterica. His latest book from Theion Publishing is The Infernal Masque.
In the interview we cover the following topics among others: writing horror fiction, his books, The Benighted Path and The Infernal Masque, Katabasis, Monstrum and Sacred Horror.
ATTN: Our discussion will continue in the second part of this interview where we will have a in-depth discussion about Katabasis, the Monstrum and Sacred Horror. Stay tuned! 
Watch the episode in Youtube:https://youtu.be/zkSJAHWSl9w
Host: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Guest: Richard Gavin 
Sound editing: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Music: Matias Takala 
 
Richard Gavin’s website:
http://www.richardgavin.net
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Host: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Sound editing: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Music: Matias Takala (intro/outro) 
Voice Talent: Martin Locker
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Kolmas vieraamme on palkittu kirjailija Marko Hautala, jonka erikoisala on psykologinen kauhu. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty kahdeksalle kielelle.
Tässä jaksossa keskustelemme mm.visionäärisestä kirjoittamisesta ja siihen nivoutuvista daimonista, muusasta sekä varjoväestä.
Haastattelu jatkuu myöhemmin toisessa osassa, jossa paneudumme joidenkin teosten kohokohtiin Tuonen Portin näkökulmasta ja sukellamme Pyhän kauhun mysteereihin.
Podcast-isäntä - Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Vieras - Marko Hautala 
Äänieditointi: Konstantin Tuonihovi 
Musiikki: Matias Takala 
Sitaattien luku: Tomi Antila
Marko Hautalan valokuva: Veikko Somerpuro
Marko Hautalan Instragram:
https://www.instagram.com/hautalamarko
Marko Hautalan kotisivut:
http://markohautala.fi
 
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Podcast-isäntä - Konstantin TuonihoviÄänieditointi: Konstantin TuonihoviMusiikki: Matias Takala—
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Tervetuloa takaisin uskontotieteilijä- ja kirjailija Matti Rautaniemen haastatteluun! Viime jaksossa ruoppasimme ktoonisia aiheita kuten katabasista sekä Pyhää ja sen geometriaa. Tänään nousemme henkisempiin ulottuvuuksiin… Kohtaamme matkallamme mm. Daimonin ja Monstrumin - hirviön, pohdimme magian käsitettä, päivä- ja yötajuntaa sekä initiaatiota. Lopuksi uppoudumme Suureen työhön - Magnum Opukseen.Osa 1: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-j5adz-1405a16
Podcast-isäntä - Konstantin Tuonihovi Vieras - Matti Rautaniemi Äänieditointi: Konstantin Tuonihovi Musiikki: Matias TakalaMatti Rautaniemen valokuva: Rikhard Larvanto
Matin Instragram:https://www.instagram.com/matti_rautaniemi/Maailmanpuu-podcast:https://maailmanpuu.fi
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Toinen vieraamme on Matti Rautaniemi, Porvoossa asuva tietokirjailija ja kääntäjä sekä teologian maisteri. Hän on kirjoittanut kaksi tietokirjaa joogasta sekä lukuisia lehtiartikkeleita ja suomentanut useita tietokirjoja. Tämän ohella hän luennoi aktiivisesti ja juontaa Maailmanpuu-podcastia. Tässä jaksossa keskustelemme mm. Matin Porvoon Kipinä-lehteen tekemästä Katabasis - yöpuolen matkakertomus-artikkelista, ktoonisuudesta, Carl Jungista, Joseph Campbellista ja myyttisestä sankarin matka, Genius locista, Mircea Eliadesta, meditaatiosta, numeenin ja pyhän käsitteistä sekä pyhästä geometriasta. Sukeltakaamme Pyhän äärelle! Jakson kesto: 2 h 10 min.
Jakson esittelysivu:
https://tuonenportti.fi/rihmastosignaali-2-pyhan-aarella-vieraana-matti-rautaniemi-1-2/
 
Katso jakso Youtubessa: 
https://youtu.be/xAg2j96yMx4
 
Matti Rautaniemen valokuva: Rikhard Larvanto
 
Matin Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matti_rautaniemi/Maailmanpuu-podcast: https://maailmanpuu.fi
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Podcast-isäntä - Konstantin TuonihoviÄänieditointi: Konstantin TuonihoviMusiikki: Matias Takala
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Welcome to the second part of Dr. Martin Locker's interview!
Mycelium Signal #1: Enter the Numinous – With Dr. Martin Locker (2/2)
(2024 Remastered Version)
Where Part 1 moved across landscape, material culture, and the archaeology of Pyrenean continuity, Part 2 enters different territory: the metaphysical grammar that underlies it. Locker and Tuonihovi work through the structure of sacred experience — genius loci, the daimon, the egregore, katabasis, and the numinous — tracing the architecture these concepts share and where they diverge. The conversation reaches its furthest point with the German Lebensphilosoph Ludwig Klages, whose critique of rationality as a force hostile to life and soul remains one of the most uncompromising philosophical positions in this territory.
Note: This is Part 2. Part 1 — Perennial Pyrenees] covers Andorra’s history and folklore, the concept of tribe, and Locker’s ethnographic soundscape work.
Key themes in this episode:
Genius loci — the spirit of place as an operative rather than merely poetic concept
The liminal: threshold states, their structural properties, and what passes through them
Daimon and egregore distinguished: personal mediating intelligence versus collective thought-form
The numinous (Rudolf Otto) and sacred horror: the encounter with the wholly other as the irreducible core of religious experience
Katabasis: descent as a structural constant across traditions
The etymology of ”ecstasy” (ek-stasis: standing outside oneself) and what this reveals about the phenomenology of altered states
Sacred geometry and the non-linear experience of time
*Ludwig Klages and the Geist as adversary of the soul: the philosophical case against rationality as life’s antagonist
*Ludwig Klages* (1872–1956) — German philosopher, graphologist, and central figureof the Munich Cosmic Circle (Kosmiker). His principal work, *Der Geist als Widersacherder Seele* (”The Spirit as Adversary of the Soul,” 1929–32), argues that the intellectis not the seat of human wholeness but its enemy — a force that severs consciousnessfrom the living, rhythmic substrate of existence. Klages’ concept of a primordialPelasgian layer beneath European civilisation, and his critique of what he termedthe ”Geistfeindschaft” (hostility of spirit to life), have made him a persistentreference point in esoteric and dark philosophy circles despite — or because of —his radical position outside academic respectability.
Attention: The conversation addresses sacred horror, ontologically provocativeclaims about the nature of place and consciousness, and philosophical positionsthat sit well outside consensus materialism.
Watch the episode in Youtube:https://youtu.be/1O9zu-TusH0
 
 
GUEST BIOGRAPHY:
Martin Locker holds a doctorate in Medieval archaeology from University College London (2013) and has excavated across Europe. Following  postdoctoral work in education, heritage tourism, and commercial archaeology across Britain, Spain, and Switzerland, he settled in Andorra, where he founded the Perennial Pyrenees project — a multi-disciplinary research platform covering the archaeology, folklore, and traditions of the Pyrenean range from the Basque Country through Aragon, Andorra, and Catalonia.Alongside peer-reviewed publications, he produces field recordings and has published eight books, five of them fiction, through Mons Culturae Press — the publishing wing of the project — and through Mount Abraxas Press.
LINKS:WebsiteInstagramAudio recordingsBlog
Books:
The Tears of Pyrene: Archaeology, Folklore & Traditions of the Pyrenees* (Mons Culturae Press, 2019)The flagship non-fiction work: 278 pages drawing on sources across the Pyrenees to examine Palaeolithic-to-present human occupation, bear cults, witchcraft sites, animal and plant lore, and rural calendar traditions — the first study of its kind in English. https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Bountiful Borderlands: A History of Pyrenean Livelihoods* (Mons Culturae Press, 2021)Traces the material and cultural history of herders, hunters, woodsmen, blacksmiths, and smugglers in the Pyrenees, drawing on sources in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, French, and English. 285 pages.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Protection & Property: Apotropaic Marks on Rural Andorran Buildings* (Mons Culturae Press, 2023)A monograph on apotropaic carvings on door panels and frames across Andorra — data gathered across eight months and over three hundred sites.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
All publications (including fiction):https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Related episodes:Mycelium Signal #1, Part 1: Perennial Pyrenees — With Dr. Martin Locker
CREDITS:Sound editing: Konstantin TuonihoviMusic: Matias Takala
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GUEST BIOGRAPHY:
Martin Locker holds a doctorate in Medieval archaeology from University College London (2013) and has excavated across Europe. Following  postdoctoral work in education, heritage tourism, and commercial archaeology across Britain, Spain, and Switzerland, he settled in Andorra, where he founded the Perennial Pyrenees project — a multi-disciplinary research platform covering the archaeology, folklore, and traditions of the Pyrenean range from the Basque Country through Aragon, Andorra, and Catalonia.Alongside peer-reviewed publications, he produces field recordings and has published eight books, five of them fiction, through Mons Culturae Press — the publishing wing of the project — and through Mount Abraxas Press.
LINKS:WebsiteInstagramAudio recordingsBlog
Books:
The Tears of Pyrene: Archaeology, Folklore & Traditions of the Pyrenees* (Mons Culturae Press, 2019)The flagship non-fiction work: 278 pages drawing on sources across the Pyrenees to examine Palaeolithic-to-present human occupation, bear cults, witchcraft sites, animal and plant lore, and rural calendar traditions — the first study of its kind in English. https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Bountiful Borderlands: A History of Pyrenean Livelihoods* (Mons Culturae Press, 2021)Traces the material and cultural history of herders, hunters, woodsmen, blacksmiths, and smugglers in the Pyrenees, drawing on sources in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, French, and English. 285 pages.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Protection & Property: Apotropaic Marks on Rural Andorran Buildings* (Mons Culturae Press, 2023)A monograph on apotropaic carvings on door panels and frames across Andorra — data gathered across eight months and over three hundred sites.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
All publications (including fiction):https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Related episodes:Mycelium Signal #1, Part 1: Perennial Pyrenees — With Dr. Martin Locker
CREDITS:Sound editing: Konstantin TuonihoviMusic: Matias Takala
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Welcome to the first episode of Tuonen Portti’s new podcast! Most of the upcoming content will be in Finnish but from time to time we will release English content as well.
Dr. Martin Locker — archaeologist, resident researcher in Andorra, and founder of the Perennial Pyrenees project — is the first guest of the Mycelium Signal. Across two conversations, we move from the material record of a mountain civilisation to the conceptual architecture behind it: what makes a place sacred, what survives the collapse of a culture, and where the boundaries of the archaeological frame break down. Part 1 covers the deep history and folklore of the Pyrenees, the question of tribe as a living rather than historical category, and the ethnographic soundscape recordings Locker has made as a parallel document to his written research.
Attention: *The conversation continues in Part 2: Enter the Numinous, where the discussion moves into genius loci, the liminal, ur-occultism, the numinous, and the German philosopher Ludwig Klages.
Key themes in this episode:
The archaeology and folklore of the Pyrenean range: Andorra as a case study in layered historical continuity
Tribe as a living concept — not merely historical or anthropological, but operative in contemporary highland communities
The relationship between physical landscape and cultural memory
Ethnographic soundscape as documentary method: field recordings as a parallel archive to written scholarship
The Perennial Pyrenees project as a model for multi-disciplinary regional research outside institutional frameworks
Watch the episode in Youtube: 
https://youtu.be/3x_lPPBrwj0
Episode page including show notes:https://tuonenportti.fi/mycelium-signal-1-perennial-pyrenees-with-martin-locker-part-1/
 
GUEST BIOGRAPHY:
Martin Locker holds a doctorate in Medieval archaeology from University College London (2013) and has excavated across Europe. Following  postdoctoral work in education, heritage tourism, and commercial archaeology across Britain, Spain, and Switzerland, he settled in Andorra, where he founded the Perennial Pyrenees project — a multi-disciplinary research platform covering the archaeology, folklore, and traditions of the Pyrenean range from the Basque Country through Aragon, Andorra, and Catalonia.Alongside peer-reviewed publications, he produces field recordings and has published eight books, five of them fiction, through Mons Culturae Press — the publishing wing of the project — and through Mount Abraxas Press.
LINKS:WebsiteInstagramAudio recordingsBlog
Books:
The Tears of Pyrene: Archaeology, Folklore & Traditions of the Pyrenees* (Mons Culturae Press, 2019)The flagship non-fiction work: 278 pages drawing on sources across the Pyrenees to examine Palaeolithic-to-present human occupation, bear cults, witchcraft sites, animal and plant lore, and rural calendar traditions — the first study of its kind in English. https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Bountiful Borderlands: A History of Pyrenean Livelihoods* (Mons Culturae Press, 2021)Traces the material and cultural history of herders, hunters, woodsmen, blacksmiths, and smugglers in the Pyrenees, drawing on sources in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, French, and English. 285 pages.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Protection & Property: Apotropaic Marks on Rural Andorran Buildings* (Mons Culturae Press, 2023)A monograph on apotropaic carvings on door panels and frames across Andorra — data gathered across eight months and over three hundred sites.https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
All publications (including fiction):https://perennialpyrenees.com/purchase/
Related episodes:Mycelium Signal #1, Part 2: Enter the Numinous — With Dr. Martin Locker —Genius loci, the liminal, ur-occultism, the numinous, Ludwig Klages
CREDITS:Sound editing: Konstantin TuonihoviMusic: Matias Takala
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