Sardinia – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

On the Sardinian "su nenniri" that binds and heals: the rebirth of wheat and the connection with Tammuz/Adone

Published on: June 9 2023 Last updated on: June 9 2023 Written by: Claudia Zedda Categorized into: Anthropology, Atlas, folklore, Mito, History of Religions

The use of the on nenniri in Sardinia survives despite its scars and, whether it is a form of vital culture or a residue, it deserves our attention because we are faced with a use as ancient as mankind: one of those gestures that women and men of yesterday they were convinced they could cyclically restore order by rescuing the world from Chaos.

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Terra Sarda: Ernst Jünger's metaphysical Mediterranean

Published on: 20 September 2018 Last updated on: December 10 2018 Written by: Andrea Scarabelli Categorized into: Atlas, Philosophy, Italian Literature, Characters

The theater of these incursions is the Mediterranean, here understood in a more than a geographical sense: agora and labyrinth, "lost sea of the Self", archive and sepulcher, current and destiny, twilight and dawn, Apollonian and Dionysian.

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Sacredness, myth and divinity in the civilization of the ancient Sardinians

Published on: March 27 2018 Last updated on: December 10 2018 Written by: Daniel Perra Categorized into: Anthropology, Archeology, Astrotheology, Atlas, Megalithism, Mito, History, History of Religions

The chosen land of a heroic and warrior elite who lived pervaded by the dimension of the Sacred, Sardinia can rightly be counted among the most important spiritual centers of antiquity: the aim of this study is to reconstruct through the lenses of history, of myth and tradition the development of the ancestral Sardinian ethnos and its culture

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K. Kerényi: "The mythologem of timeless existence in ancient Sardinia"

Published on: October 17, 2017 Last updated on: January 19 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Extracts, Mito, History of Religions

Extract from the essay by Károly Kerényi "The mythology of timeless existence in ancient Sardinia ", adapted from Myths and Mysteries, and. Einaudi, Turin, 1950, pp. 413 - 423.

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