hypothesis happened to ask about the rituals that took place in Santa Eulalia de Dome during the third century AD are based on the writings of various authors on the regular ritual that developed at the shrines of the goddess. Cibeles
had dedicated fourteenth day of March, which produced the most important rites and ceremonies.
March 15 Atis Party.
This festival was prolonged until day 27. Throughout she would celebrate different rites and ceremonies with which they wanted to play the main events of the life of this man-god: birth, emasculation, death and resurrection.
GALLUS CIBELES DANCERS OF
begin March 22 holiday of Cybele, mother and lover Attis, who dies and rises at the equinox spring.
In this day took place the "ceremony of the tree" is cut a pine forest near Santa Eulalia, (even today are very easy to find large pine born between large rocks emerging from the field) and brought to the sanctuary of Cybele by a congregation of trees porters. The tree is replanted in a ceremonial hole in front of the sanctuary was decorated with garlands of violets, born from the blood of Attis, to commemorate his death and castration under a pine tree. The faithful of the goddess begin their days of fasting.
March 23 Atis
Party (ninth day). Gloomy brass concert with the death of Attis made by gallus or Corybantes.
March 24 Day of Blood.
When I snap the cymbals, the beating of drums and the sound of trumpets and flutes priests frenetic dance novices that day are castrated collectively with a flint knife inside the sanctuary to offer their bodies to get clothes and goddess beads as a requirement for women consecrated to the goddess Cybele.
Late at night they light a lamp in the crypt of the sanctuary, and inside, on the central pool, or join the archigallus priest, receives the baptism of blood of the bull sacrificed on the top floor, the devotee as a representation of man- god Attis, is lifted after the baptism of blood from the dead and comes out of the crypt gently whispering in the ears of the audience the good news of the resurrection, which is spreading among the masses. The joy will rise like a river in flood. March 25
Resurrection of Attis. Fiesta Hilaria or the Day of joy.
This day is regarded as the spring equinox. Inside the festival of Attis, the first light of this day, the Archigalo announced the resurrection of God and the hope of salvation for the initiated, after which the faithful erupted in violent demonstrations of joy.
People dress with many different costumes in a kind of carnival. Meanwhile, belonging to the sect started Cibeles begin a ceremony of rebirth and forgiveness of sins in the sanctuary of the Goddess, located at the present site of the Santa Eulalia de Dome.
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March 26 This is a day of rest after the feast overflowing
Festival March 27 in praise of Cibeles.
After this feast with a procession in which the image of the Goddess floor, his face carved in black stone, was driven in a cart pulled by oxen to the river near the shrine and bathed in its waters. The priest, dressed in purple-the color of the Goddess, lava image and other sacred objects. With this service is ensured rain and fertility of the fields.
"Some women with beautiful white robes, with vivid and varied symbolic attributes, full of spring flowering crowns, were walking and taking from his breast petals to cover the ground she walked on the sacred procession. Others had her back turned to a bright mirror back: the Goddess in them up front could see the devoted crowd that followed his steps. " (Apuleius)
THE DANCERS TODAY
remain in Galicia dancers carved on the walls of Santa Eualalia. Both
A Cervela as in A Franqueira remains very reminiscent of the ancient dances dedicated to Cybele by his devotees.
A singular Cervela revived the tradition of Santa Lucia dances
See: La Voz de Galicia. 08/31/2008
"Many people attended the parish of San Cristovo of Cervela, in the municipality of O Incio, the feast of St. Lucia , which ranks among the festivals of ethnographic interest in the province. The uniqueness of the celebration lies mainly in the dances that are performed during the procession, a tradition that experts assign a probably very ancient origin. Four dancers were responsible for reviving the practice, as has been happening for quite a years, although in earlier times the decline of the rural population, the dances were performed by six or eight people. "
Dancers A Cervela, hows the A Franqueira, are reminiscent of ancient dances dedicated to Cybele by his devotees.
The dancers who appear in the reliefs on the facade of the church of Santa Eulalia Lugo Vault arc also present on their heads, the female costumes that dancers remain today.
The ancient cult of Cybele is manifested today, and perhaps more strength than ever, in the many dances dedicated to saints and virgins of the peoples of the peninsula.
"A curious problem arise, for example, the feminine trappings that, quite often lead the dancers rolling pin, etc. .., parallel to certain garments and ornaments characteristic of 'galli' which, as we know, were eunuchs that all should strive to be like women, who were attached to the worship of the goddess Cybele, the "Magna Mater" and who performed dances of swords, and so on. They wore these earrings, necklace and special touch to the head with jewels and medallions.
Thus an elderly priest, "archigallus", in a relief which is kept in the palace of Rome's conservatives, also has other distinctive emblems that concern us here. So the priests also came out of the Syrian goddess describing Apuleius. Outfits, mostly feminine, the boys dance in the procession of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, on May 12, in the Rioja, and is well known procession of Corpus Christi Laguna de Negritos (León), the dancers have starched skirts. "
The summer holiday: Summer Festivals - Page 216
Julio Caro Baroja - 1984
View: Dancers Hispania de Cibeles in
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