visitors every year affollanonella beautiful plain of Paestum in search of his antichevestigia often unaware that the land has always been dedicated to the Sacred alFemminino, since from the eighth century BC C. laseconda Greek colonization reached near those coasts facendofiorire in our land and sacred to the ancient worship of the Mother Goddess, imported before the powerful and mysterious region dell'AsiaMinore. Here the Lady was often worshiped in the form congrandi impersonal faceless statues to signify impersonality delFemminino and the representation of all women in A, neimolteplici roles of the Virgin and Child, Warrior, nellaIerogamia Spouse, Mother, Crone Wise, Death.
The sacred character of Hera, to be covered ancoraprima limiting the role of the wife of Zeus, a god related to the sky and the light (Dyeus) of Indo-European origin, she herself was sacred Virgin confirmed that each year the entire proprioessere ( and therefore empty) bathing in the sacred waters of dellafonte Khanate, to the Goddess can show that retained its own poterematriarcale and voluntarily chose to join the Sacred Marriage maritonelle which confirmed its role as a wife.
"The appearance of the Goddess verginerappresenta the woman that a man can not penetrate possederenè ever, which is not touched by a man odalla need his approval, which exists in itself entirely separate Dalu. When a woman lives by the archetype of a virgin, not vuoldire that either literally or in the literal sense, but part of cheun'importante she is in a psychological sense. The terminevergine means pristine, pure, uncorrupted, not consumed, nonmanipolata man ... "(" Goddesses in women ", J. Shinoda Bolen)
The Greeks who came to us nellaseconda wave of immigration from from 'eighth century aCconservavano still dear matrilineal heritage that bound them to unprincipio strong and sacred feminine was revered in moltoforme and various beautiful and solemn shrines erected in antiquity: the Heraion of Samos and the Argo, the Heraion of Olympia and quellidedicati Hera and Hera Limenia Licraia in Corinth.
Coming here, others were built to the Goddess santuaridedicati Metaponto and Agrigento, Selinunte and aCrotone.
vogliamofocalizzare However, we now look at what happened in the Plain of Paestum on the distortion of meaning due to a patriarchal culture that covered operatadalla overlapping and confusing places altrimentidedicati the Sacred Feminine and consecrated women.
In the eighteenth century, in fact, with the plain lariscoperta paestana to teach due to his pienodiritto between the key stages of the Grand Tour, a journey that many young men of good diiniziazione percompletare family were making their cultural background and an open sguardoallargato the classical world, then, the source of grandenutrimento human and spiritual, are also rediscovering these very old then, cleaned up the traces of the pastures and the weather, turned out to be coming from three magnificent temples' anticacittà of Poseidon, the last traces of which dated back all'XIsecolo.
" Finally, uncertain if we were walking on rocks or rubble, boulders we could riconoscerealcuni oblong, square, we had already noticed dadistante as temples survivors and memories of a city a voltamagnifica . (Goethe)
arose antichifasti then back to the three magnificent temples that today are a destination for tourists from around the world and ogniparte, nell'entusiamo of discovery, were fattefrettolose attribution to Apollo and especially aPoseidone , in which the city had the name and it was believed dovessenecessariamente be the main deity of a people chedoveva its primary source of income to the dreaded / beloved Mare Nostrum.
hannoportato In fact, further studies in the light of the worship of a deity of the greatest Achaean, Mrs. eyed cattle, so called by Homer for inspiring majesty viadella her figure, Goddess with unbambino arm and hand in a pomegranate, the fruit sacred consecrated allafertilità well as to step into the Kingdom of Death, viadella for its resemblance to the opium poppy.
Two of the three temples mentioned above, in fact, those formerly known as the Basilica and the Temple diPoseidone were actually two shrines dedicated to the figure dellaSignora, perhaps the first to complete her as a goddess herself, ilsecondo to its role as a wife in company of her husband Zeus, this political marriage, which united religiously aiDori the Achaeans, first equal in a relationship, which subsequently scaddenella tormented figure of a woman betrayed by a maritofedifrago continuously and without any form of respect for licongiungeva the sacred rite.
here, however, is a form of didegenerazione Hierogamy, sacred union of male and Femminilepresente in all cultures and leads to enlightenment.
Hera and Zeus as Shiva and Shakti, dasempre to preserve the fate of the world, joins nellaSacra annual ritual dance.
The third temple, you find pursues the two was still dedicated to a woman, the combative and astutaAtena, protectress of heroes, perhaps a legacy of the ancient role diguerriera the Goddess without a name, but with a thousand faces, kept his frail many forms, because all the goddesses are one, and so all Ledoux.
Hera was So Mother, Daughter, Warrior, Lover, Virgin, but more feminine principle, the legacy of ancient matriarchal cult.
The Heraion Foce Sele
the most beautiful time of all, the piùfastoso, unfortunately is not what it remains today, satin alsuolo from the natural progress of the land due to sediment deidetriti river, this being a place of worship built on FoceSele, just at the mouth of the estuary. Today we find ourselves in letracce, about a mile from the coast, and Pococi remains of a temple that was also a place of exchange of goods and Dicamba of money, so long as healthy relazionicommerciali related to the Greeks who settled on our shores intrattenevanonon only with the mother country, but with many of the Florida culturemarinare present time.
In the sanctuary of Argive Hera, under the watchful losguardo Goddess, we weighed the gold and silver gliscambi and swore to his holy name. Initially there were no places
adibitial cult, if not a votive altar made of earth and ashes.
and then expanded in stages iltempio, including other premises, including a edificiopubblico used for worship, two sacred altars for sacrifices, a Thesauros "for the containment and collection of offertevotive and finally a square building that "Verginitessitrici of" dedicated to the time of Lucani weaving, art dasempre female ": Destiny, Fate eraun'Entità above gods and men, before whom stessoZeus back, but three fragile and dark, old women nemaneggiavano consistently ranks: the Fates, which in the Thirteenth troviamotracce modern fairy tale of the BellaAddormentata in the Woods, which numbs the Auroralasciando princess who pricked her finger with a spindle.
does not escape the link, of course, with Arachne and Penelope, but the particularity of those local deltempio was to accommodate the girls to be married, back into an isolation ritual in which they recreated in the spirit enell'intento before facing the rite of passage, that daVergine (girls often left their games there are girls) to his wife, who would occupy the future home of the husband and these girls are not yet compagno.Allora women wove their frames ilsacro peplum ritual for the statue of the goddess offered as ex-votoin occasion of the annual procession, meditating in silence sulproprio future brides.
then sacrificed to the goddess on an altar deidue visible even now, not so much to appease the amoredello husband watches what to preside over the passage of age who were facing life edition.
This is one of the sacred mysteries andatoperso, one of the rituals related to life cycles atraversati dalledonne.
to hear the holy hymns sung Aher, Madame, to touch the sacred women's frames, votive statuettes for vederele that always accompanied the prayers of the virgin brides, the mothers, you can make a visit to MuseoNarrante of Argive Hera, in front of almost bare ground that offrepoco of the ancient remains of what once was a revered and tempioimportante.
The beautiful metopes adorning the sanctuary can be visited in gliarchitravi ArcheologicoNazionale Museum of Paestum, where they are reassembled into their originariosplendore.
serieritrovata These include the more recently composed by thirty metopes raffigurantidelle dancing girls. However
lasacralità if you want to sniff the ground, the vibrations still dalsuolo now pass to the tips of the hands and feet, woven by the songs and dallepreghiere of our ancestors, we must be there, on that terrascossa vibration river below, making restless, untamed , unstable.
was a woman to find coninfallibile instinct, the temple lost Foce Sele: The Zanchi archeologaPaola Montuoro, accompanied by Mr Umberto ZanottiBianco.
encountered among other things in their unadelle was about six thousand in which votive statuettes of women, female busts, heads, suppliant as he offers fruit, flowers ecolombe, bronze vases and jewelry. The cult of
Goddess Lady delmelograno nonperishable ever (though the Temple and the deperisse suaimportanza), but rather was salvaged and remembrance in altreforme: today we find traces in the Catholic shrine of Madonnadel Garnet, on the hill Carpathians. Here Mary tronocon seated in the child tightly in one arm and the pomegranate regalmenteimpugnato with the other hand refers to the pagan goddess, who, through imillenni, imposes its majestic presence in the valley and sweet pianadi Paestum, still echoing of ancient songs and aspirations that , echoes of today's Rosaries, women of the past rose up to giustepreci for all the gifts of women whose wanted theit constellating tremulous life.
Maria Luisa Pesce
