PEACOCK London, British Museum
depicting the goddess associated with a peacock. Also
Rhea Cybele, the Greek goddess was represented by an ostrich, the largest bird known in antiquity. It is no coincidence that these birds receive today the scientific name in your order (rheiformes), family (Rheidae) and species (rhea). The identification of the goddess Cybele with the ostrich is very old:
V century BC In the book The Birds of Aristophanes actors exclaim
PRIEST .- ... And frigilo Sabazios, Cybele ostrich, August mother of the gods and men ...
PISTETERO .- Oh powerful ostrich Cybele, mother of Cleócrito
This Greek comedy by Aristophanes won second prize at the Great Dionysia of the year 414 a. C.
Birds is a real masterpiece of fantasy and humor but especially for his choral songs. The argument is about how the birds, persuaded by two adventurers, built his empire in the heavens and the gods have to enter into negotiations with them.
Aristophanes was born at the time of Pericles, a period of peace, and his birth may be located around 445 BC Athenian by birth, all his works tell us of the close relationship between the poet and literary and political life of his time.
ORACLE Oracle
The word comes from Latin Oraculum "place where someone speaks," where the gods gave their predictions made by a person who was half as mysterious and enigmatic. The most famous oracle of antiquity was that of Delphi, Greece.
In ancient times there are several gods associated with his cult of divination oracles, in some cases the priests must go into a trance through the inhalation of sulfur or ammonia gas, in other cases through the interpretation of viscera animals.
In Rome divination by the flight or song of birds was in charge of most magicians were from Greece, Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. The priests of Cybele
called "gallus" were identified with this bird.
"The language of birds / I see one I / we being the call prediction / and still the ominous caw."
charms of guilt - p.15. Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Christianity considered evil these oracles, but many Church Fathers and Christian writers admitted that the sibyl had borne witness to Christ. In the second and third centuries AD C. the Church recognized these oracles, but Christianity. At the Council of Nicea Constantine himself appealed to these oracles, and even St. Augustine placed the Sibyl in the City of God.
prophetic chants were assimilated by Christianity, are even present in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. That is so named because the ancient sanctuary of Cybele. Vatican = forecast.
This prediction was obtained from the sibyls, which are still present in the vault of the Sistine Chapel at the top of the Vatican Hill, where another bird has divine those gathered there to guide them in choosing the new Pope Max religion of Rome.
In Santa Eulalia Vault served the oracle of birdsong, and through this the priests of the goddess were interpreted prophecy.
The building masterfully solves the need to introduce the singing of birds to be alive in the building to do it, and covered with a divine transcendence while these remain in a hidden way to the devotees.
are "mimics" and the popular legend of Piping Pena, named in allusion to the singing of a haunted hen who lived on it and it disappeared from view when someone stopped to look.
This legend, which remains in the collective memory of local residents, to ascertain the indigenous history the cult of Cybele. The existence of an enchanted bird with a magical song, and performs its charm on a rock, is undoubtedly the indigenous history of the birds that reside in the temples of Cybele.
SECTION OF BIRDS
The location of the birds on the perimeter corridor, of which only priests are aware of its existence, and while the songs released by them is transmitted directly to the vault in which are paintings, is a clear demonstration of mastery of construction techniques by the authors of the sanctuary, while a clear example of religious architecture highly specialized.
The devotees who came to the shrine to ask the oracle service were witnesses of how the paintings of the crypt will sing to the priests. It should be noted that the birds could be kept in total darkness at will from their caregivers, so that controlling these natural light to enter the small windows to the outside could produce the songs of birds at the time requested.
The current configuration of the corridor, made concrete in a twentieth century work, not to be mistaken for those interested in deciphering the logic of this building. Work on concrete
destroyed the original perimeter of the building consists of a double wall with a camera interior.
The geometry of the whole and its eastern facade, has revealed that its size serves not only to the interior floor of the crypt, but also the surrounding space and hidden from the outside. There are churches that have this "humidity chamber" dome perimeter.
PLANT CRYPT
To reinforce this idea presented an identical solution that we can still observe the ancient temple of Cybele on the Palatine in Rome. The temple of the Palatine is the author the history of the temples dedicated to the goddess in the empire.
temple of Cybele,
PALATINO 
The cella placed on "podium" building in Palatine has a hidden camera dome that covers the walls around its perimeter and of similar dimensions to the Vault. The humidity chamber solves the problems of moisture and is the place where they hid some valuables kept in the temples. Images can be seen in the similarity of the chamber between the walls.
Eulalia "that it speaks" Sibyl at shrines Cybele-Rhea.
Places of Goddess is transformed according to early Christian ritual, and like other parts of the peninsula, in the chapel of Santa Eulalia. The ritual of the mystery of Cybele was persecuted because he entered into direct confrontation with the new Judeo Christian baptism. This ritual covered pond with a new marble floor and punched the wall paintings below, surely referring to the mysteries of the goddess. Yes
characteristics remained sibyls oracle in the voices of birds. Eulalia and features from the Greek prefix eu (eu), meaning good, propitious, favorable. The second element, lalia (LALI) lalew verb (laleo) means to speak. The set of two elements gives us for the name Eulalia meaning "Well spoken," "eloquent", "Compelling" defining characteristic of the Sibyls. Santa Eulalia
lived between the ages III-IV, a young woman, virgin and martyr who, according to different traditions, was born in Mérida or in Barcelona. He devoted his youth to teach and counsel among children and the needy, leaving a great example of faith. Tradition says that the saint died, people saw out of his mouth like a pure white dove flew into the sky, and that the perpetrators fled. La Santa, for that reason is patron bird, he offered his advice to others, both features related to the pagan image of the sibyl.
adopted Christianity between their beliefs sibyls characters present in the Bible, and Santa Eulalia allowed with captions for easy Christianization of the places where they worshiped.
LIVE BIRDS OF SANTA EULALIA
A Santa Eulalia is venerated, as well as many other places, in the Cathedral of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bsince it is the patron saint of the city, and as in Lugo in the temple there in memory the sanctuary of Cybele, in addition to the missing square baptistery in the center containing a pool where they held los bautismos, las imágenes de las sibilas encarnadas en las aves.
Las aves vivas de Santa Eulalia en Barcelona
Lo sorprendente es que en lugar de ser en pinturas murales, en la catedral de Barcelona las ocas, faisanes, codornices y palomas están vivas, son cuidadas con esmero por los sacerdotes y cantan aun hoy sus augurios cada día en el CLAUSTRO DE LA CATEDRAL.
Podemos imaginar que el claustro, lugar oculto a la vista de los fieles en los tiempos antíguos, es el espacio indicado para el canto de las aves sin poder ser vistas por los devotos.
Ver el vídeo: La Reina de las Aves
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