He was courageous, elegant and rich. Honor was his code. Charismatic enough to lead the wild cossack sotnias. Too late at the head of the White Army, he forbid his
![Lou Reed III](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-loo-reed-3-2020.jpg)
All of us have passed through those lonely, rainy nights, when midnight’s over, friend and love long gone. Too much smoke, too much booze, maybe more stuff loading us. The
![Yggrdrasill](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-yggrdrasill-2020.jpg)
Yggrdrasill, the Horse of Yggr – the sacred Ashtree. Wotan suspended himself to one of its branches, pulled out his own eye, went through death, three wolves owling at his
![Le levrier russe](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-le-levrier-russe-2020.jpg)
This one too is about magic. A maze of words, almost spells. Magic movements across a wood of birches at night. The deadly dance of the Borzoi – the fast
![Korovev](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-korovev-2020.jpg)
Another spell, another master of words: Mikhail Bulgakov. One of the devils who landed in Moscow to shake of atheism from Stalin’s era society, and the fly away when duty’s
![Street hassle](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-street-hassle-2020.jpg)
Lou Reed once again. Street Hassle, his poisonous album widely inspired by his transgender muse Rachel Humphreys. Lyrics: pure Delmore Schwartz – style. Theme: the underworld of transvestites and junkies,
![The tarot reader](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-the-tarot-reader-2020.jpg)
A Magician myself, sometyimes I can see the future of others’, never mine. And I really enjoy tarot divination when performed by friends always on the move, dedicated to individual
![Shaman I](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-shaman-1-2020.jpg)
Allies to Zalmoxis, shamans unveil themselves as prophets, healers, primitive priests of the God of prophecy – call it Hyperborean Apollo: Swans lead him hrough the skies, he himself disguised
![Shaman II](https://www.zalmoxisproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/zxp-shaman-2-2020.jpg)
…the shaman turns into a bird, he flies away into the dark sky, next to the stars. Not of this world, beyond his own death (the Spiral – Labyrinth).