Here is the link that I wanted to put at the end of the previous page:
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/a-pagan-exorcism-in-sardinia
It’s about the mamuthones and issohadores, and I want to point out that the word exorcism in the title just means they are cleaning out misfortunes and assuring a prosperous new year.
I may not be doing my research properly, but at least I’m trying. And since ‘there’s no smoke without fire’ some of what I’ve found may turn out to be true. So, I will go on looking for lions. If lions are somehow pagan, that would give a new meaning to all the pictures of Saint Jerome and the lion...
I’m going on the idea that pagan culture was everywhere in Europe, only thinly covered up by Christianity. I want to know what the pagan stories were. What if the fairy tale of the 12 months / twelve old men in a forest, what if that matches up to the mamuthones? But why not 13 as in a lunar year?
After lions, I hope to write about sea monsters. I’ve found a picture of a knight aiming a spear at a sea monster. It looks a lot like St. George and the dragon. I’m hoping that sea monsters from the 1700’s somehow represent fertility.
I’m sorry I can’t add pictures just now. There’s a picture in the book, Splendor At Court by Roy Strong - I really want to show you this picture: The Chariot of Minerva (figure 121 on page 167)
The chariot looks like a sleigh, and it is pulled by a creature half lion / half dragon. Looks a lot like a Russian Embroidery with the Mother of All on her Sun Shallop surrounded by two dragons. Almost every picture in this book has something that could be pagan, but there’s nothing about it in the text.
Half a blog is better than none. But I need pictures!
I’d like to show the sirens with their mirrors (figure 116, page 160.)
...
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/a-pagan-exorcism-in-sardinia
It’s about the mamuthones and issohadores, and I want to point out that the word exorcism in the title just means they are cleaning out misfortunes and assuring a prosperous new year.
I may not be doing my research properly, but at least I’m trying. And since ‘there’s no smoke without fire’ some of what I’ve found may turn out to be true. So, I will go on looking for lions. If lions are somehow pagan, that would give a new meaning to all the pictures of Saint Jerome and the lion...
I’m going on the idea that pagan culture was everywhere in Europe, only thinly covered up by Christianity. I want to know what the pagan stories were. What if the fairy tale of the 12 months / twelve old men in a forest, what if that matches up to the mamuthones? But why not 13 as in a lunar year?
After lions, I hope to write about sea monsters. I’ve found a picture of a knight aiming a spear at a sea monster. It looks a lot like St. George and the dragon. I’m hoping that sea monsters from the 1700’s somehow represent fertility.
I’m sorry I can’t add pictures just now. There’s a picture in the book, Splendor At Court by Roy Strong - I really want to show you this picture: The Chariot of Minerva (figure 121 on page 167)
The chariot looks like a sleigh, and it is pulled by a creature half lion / half dragon. Looks a lot like a Russian Embroidery with the Mother of All on her Sun Shallop surrounded by two dragons. Almost every picture in this book has something that could be pagan, but there’s nothing about it in the text.
Half a blog is better than none. But I need pictures!
I’d like to show the sirens with their mirrors (figure 116, page 160.)
...
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