by Oretta Di Carlo, Enrica Tedeschi, Susanna Magnelli, Donatella Livigni and Tatiana Melaragni The cult of the goddess Feronia is known to us thanks to the numerous news that the authors of Latin and Greek literature have left us, to the numerous epigraphs of the classical era and also to a coin, which reproduces the…
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by Arianna Carta Sardinia is an open-air temple dotted with sacred manifestations or, to quote Eliade, hierophanies: nuraghes, domus de janas, giants' tombs, menhirs and sacred wells that blend with zoo and anthropomorphic rocks (valley of the moon , elephant rock, bear rock etc.) caves, earth,…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo The Grotta del Colle in Rapino, in the province of Chieti, on the eastern slope of the Maiella, is certainly one of the most evocative archaeological sites of the Abruzzo Mother Mountain and also a clear example of how the ancient history of the sacred is the history of places of nature that…
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by Elena Fornari Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin In central Italy, in the Tuscany region, a few kilometers from the coast of Versilia, the Apuan Alps rise majestically. This area…
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by Alessandra Pilloni Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin Goni is a very small town in the province of Cagliari, in that area of Sardinia which takes Gerry's name. On…
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by Giovanni Feo Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin The traditional mythological icon associated with the city of Rome, the She-Wolf and the Twins, was interpreted according to different points of…
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