Le Cernie: Mobilhouse Sardinia

Le Cernie Mobilhouse Sardinia: The graves of giants are sometimes accompanied by unusual stones aniconiche, carefully you works in ogival form, essential in the line, but pregnant in the meaning. Bètili is defined (from the Jew: place where the Lord detains him) for the clear sacred destination of symbolic representation of the divinity and they express the principîs essential, masculine and female, that are to the origin of the life according to the contents of an ancient naturalistic religion. Prepared in alignment, they reiterate in two ternes the divinities able to recall new life from the death, according to the agrarian conception, for which the death of an element is origin of life, equal to the seed that dies for budding and to give fruit. Lithic Modellini of simple nuraghi and complexes, cippi throne, columns and basins are other meaningful and recurrent elements in the demonstrations of the ancient cults in Sardinia. Domus de Janas

Literally "the fairy-witches' houses", according to the popular tradition, they are in reality ipogei destined to the dead ones. They are present in almost all the island, to testify, in their variety tipologica, the stories of the populations of the Neolitico I mediate and recent and of the Calcolitico (at least from the beginnings of 4º to halves the 3º mill.). They have simple or articulated planimetria in numerous vain, variedly prepared around an anticella. You dig in every type of rock (granulated, limestone, basalt, sandstone, etc.), they sometimes have narrow environments, but often ample and monumental, not rarely embellished by motives iconografici, naturalistic or stylized, tied up to the religious contents and the cult of the corpses of the different people of affiliation. They is inspired to the animal world and they represents bovine protomi or caprine in naturalistic or schematic style. Sacred wells Unusual in the structure and in the ritual destination they are the wells nuragici, defined note sacred. Precisely dated not, they seem to appear in the civilization nuragica toward the last centuries of the 2º millennium to.C.. Their remarkable social function is shown, beyond the mere necessity of the vital liquid for every living being, for the remarkable number of finds, that you/they originate from them. It deals with vases of good invoice, decorated to impression or to plastic reliefs mammillari, and of bronzy figurines, the famous ones "bronzetti", commonly held "ex vote." A jewel accumulation of such objects he explains only with a strong faith in the abilities administrators and regenerative of the divinity, that in the waters of the deep veins him apparent to the men. The structures ipogee, in unity to those concentric day-pupils, I am from some symbolic retentions, in Cult and Divinity Big part of the monuments prehistoric joints up to us are tightly tied to the religious faith of the ancient tenants of the island. Every culture has left the sign of its pity in the cult of the ancestors and in the "imprints" of a divine immanent, where the signs of the nature and the stars owed have a remarkable role. Everything this is certainly referable to a naturalistic conception of the divine one, where the mystery and the magic one reigned. The principîs of the fertility were tied up to the agrarian cult, referable to at least two divinities: a female, in the double function of giving birth and of nurse and a masculine, fertilizzatrice. The Great Goddess, mother of all the living beings, vegetable, animals and men, were identified with the Earth, from which everything originated and to which everything was brought back, in an eternal cycle, where death was origin of the life and not vice versa: a seed must die for being able to give life to many fruits.