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Una è la forma, molti sono i nomi : scenari del sacro femminile tra la Sicilia e Creta
2022
Nei culti rivolti alle Madonne e alle Sante in Sicilia e a Creta, in particolare in quelli caratterizzati dall’ostensione e dalla manipolazione di fronde vegetali, dall’uso di acque salutifere, dal riutilizzo di antichi spazi cultuali (grotte, cime montuose, boschi), sembra continuino a reiterarsi modelli mitici e simboli rituali propri di un antico pattern del sacro femminile che, di volta in volta, disarticolato e rimodulato, si rivela tutt’altro che inattuale e che anzi continua a conferire senso alle molteplici e rinnovate istanze dell’esperienza religiosa contemporanea. Che si voglia ammettere ovvero respingere l’ipotesi di una relazione storica delle espressioni del sacro femminile e …
Le pratiche magiche tra passato e presente
2015
Both in the contemporary Sicilian magic and folkloric reality and in the Egyptian civilization, though with different historical and cultural assumptions, the beliefs which underlie the magic and religious rituals and the ritual symbols substantiating them (acts, words, items, sounds, etc.) show the need to gain control over the mishaps of this world and to command life processes. They reveal the urge to solve the states of individual or collective crisis, to overcome pain, illnesses, death setting up a positive dialogue with supernatural forces and trascendental entities, variously imagined and represented. In order to escape actuality in obiecto, man has, in intellectu, constantly and arb…
"Memorie dal sottosuolo". Una prospettiva di indagine sul simbolismo rituale delle feste religiose "tradizionali"
2017
In 1945, writing about the procession of Our Lady of Viggiano, Carlo Levi presents us a peasant world characterized by archaic beliefs and ritual practices, another world « where seasons run on peasant fatigue, [...] like three thousand years before Christ », a world « veiled with black veils, fiery and earthly [...] which you do not enter without a key of magic ». If that other world of the peasants seems to have come to an end today, the beliefs, practices and ritual symbols of reputed “pre-Christian” precedence or in any case alien to the official liturgy, as witnessed by Levi and many other narrators and demoanthropologists from the 19th and 20th century are not, however, definitively l…
Corpo a corpo. Agoni e danze cerimoniali nella Sicilia contemporanea
2018
the choreutical movements of the statues of saints are still today a constitutive and qualifying component of the ritual process of numerous Sicilian religious festivals, in particular those of Easter and the spring-summer ones of the patron saints. The races and dances of the Risen Christ and of the saints are generally accompanied by competitions, struggles, displays of virile attitudes, erotic allusions, the display of gold and evergreen fronds, the consumption of peculiar foods and desserts or a set of ritual symbols of an orgiastic nature which, in referring to an experience of the agro-pastoral world, appear as originally intended to celebrate and promote, at critical moments, the cos…
ТРАПЕЗЫ ПРЕДКОВ. АГРАРНО-ХТОНИЧЕСКИЕ КОРНИ И ПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКИЕ ПЕРЕОСМЫСЛЕНИЯ «СТОЛОВ СВЯТОГО ИОСИФА» НА СИЦИЛИИ
2019
Многие традиционные религиозные праздники на Сицилии несут в себе символизм, связанный с идеей плодородия растительности и человека, возвращения жизни и изобилия, и демонстрируют временную связь с производственными циклами основных сельскохозяйственных культур. Такие символические и временные связи особенно очевидны в случае трапез, устраиваемых по обету в праздник святого Иосифа (19 марта). Виды и форма блюд, приготовляемых по этому случаю, театрализованные элементы обрядов, сопровождающих священную трапезу, реальные и виртуальные участники этих обрядов (Святое Семейство, апостолы, так называемые вирджинедди , старички ) ясно отсылают к системе аграрнохтонических представлений, свойственны…