Tag: Nuragic and Pre-Nuragic

In Sardinia, there was a place for the living and a place for those who were no longer living, laid to rest but ready to be reborn beyond the stone threshold of the tomb. The Nuragic people believed that existence continued in the afterlife as it did in the known world. Thus, they conceived a…

Stone upon stone, earth and sky, and then the tranquility of the countryside, the grace of nature that welcomes the towers built by man. As if marked by an archaic rhythm of drums, the Sardinian landscape was changing, being shaped according to a higher, rational order. After all, was this not the germination of the…

The wide fields looking westward, and the towers of the nuraghes like peaks of a barren hilly landscape. Never domed nor concealed, the stone peered over the vivid swarming of men. Some adorned with shining armaments and round shields, fierce warriors with horned helmets resting on their foreheads, placed to guard the territories where the…

What drove men to erect stone monuments, raise the sacred above the earth and compose paths oriented towards desires for eternity? The menhirs of Sardinia traced enigmatic ways that are shrouded in mystery to our eyes today. Stone is difficult to penetrate in its hardness, like the intentions, ideas and common feelings of the first…

At the dawn of the third millennium BC, at the sanctuary of Monte d’Accoddi someone lifted his eyes to the sky. In the firmament, during the night, he saw the divine image of the mother, the great goddess, creator and nurturer of the universe. By her will, even the stars, like beings on earth, were…

In Sardinia, stone has reflected the early spiritual tension aimed at self-knowledge and understanding of the world since the Palaeolithic era. The material is shaped to communicate one’s feelings, and explicit anthropomorphic features emerge in the art. Architecture becomes a complete expression of an incomprehensible sacredness. The ancient Sardinians delineated thresholds between distant worlds. They…

The gradual evolution of cultures in pre-Nuragic Sardinia reveals humanity’s inner quest. Through rituals and beliefs new metaphysical frames of meaning, new interpretations of existence are delineated. The feeling of an order beyond nature, which transcends into the sphere of the sacred, is embodied in the archetypal image of a female deity related to fertility.…

It was the age of heroes and giants, who stood as sentinels of the centuries on the threshold between life and death, flesh and stone. It was the age of imperishable warriors, arcane guardians of a proud and millenary civilisation. Hypnotic eyes reached beyond the horizon towards the placid quartz beaches of the Sinis peninsula,…