Curator: Barbara Crescimanno
Publisher: European Polygraphic Institute
Year edition: 2021
Type: University book
Pages: 288 p., Paperback
EAN: 9788896251867
€ 15,00
From the archaeological documentation concerning music and dance in Sicily emerges a culture deeply intertwined with the plots of the feminine, linked to the Nymphs: historical / mythological figures common to the whole Mediterranean since the Paleolithic and of which traces remain - re-functionalized - until today. The term "nymph" brings together different aspects of nature and heterogeneous skills in a symbolic whole: identified as herbalists, beekeepers, midwives, wet nurses, priestesses of feminine rites (menarche, pregnancy, childbirth), prophetesses, the Nymphs administer initiatory cults connected to the goddesses of which they make up the retinue (Demeter, Persephone, Artemis, Athena…). We find them in the medieval and modern age, transformed into the figures of donni di fora, magare, munaceddi or into specific Saints and Madonnas, patrons and protectors of woods, springs, caves: the sanctuaries of the previous divinities. The authors of this volume, inaugurating a series dedicated to the Sacred Women in Sicily, show the traces hidden in watermark between the lines of the official narrative, with the intention of disseminating research tools useful for the transformation of the current cultural paradigm .
