SHARDANA.LEO, INDIANA.LEO, BRUCE.LEO... Amante della storia antica, esplorazioni siti archeo ed arti marziali...
Studioso e ricercatore. Ho girato il mondo alla ricerca dei Popoli del Mare e della Tribu di Dan ... Tribu de Dana! Tuatha de DANA... SHER-DANA!)
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----------------ENGLISH:Societes of Peace: 2nd World Congress on Matriarchal Studies
Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum
Dark Mother, Dark Others, and a new World Case of Sardinia
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SEMITIC SHARDANA "peoples of the sea". THE SEA PEOPLES
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The people who created the thousands of NURAGHI, cone shaped structures that have become the symbol of SARDINIA, have been the subject of a good deal of speculation. A book recommended to me by sardinian scholars,
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LEONARDO MELIS: "SHARDANA I POPOLI DEL MARE", has been helpful because of its extensive ..ation. The people known as "peoples of the sea", according to Melis, are the shardana,, who gave Sardinia its name. The shardana were semites, whom Melis identifies as
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the LOST TRIBE OF DANA, a semitic tribe who venerated a dark mother. Fleeing a three hundred year famine in Ur (Mesopotamia) the shardana expanded after 2300-2000 BCE into the anatolian peninsula, then into central and northern Europe, leaving clues to their presence in names; e.g., along the Danube (Dan) and the Dnieper (Dn) rivers,
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into the BALTIC, Scandinavia,into IRELAND("DANNY BOY"). Another group of these semitic shardana went south to Syria and the Dead Sea, then into Greece, Crete, Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia (where they settled). and thence, in a reprise of early african migrations , to the northern coast of Africa. -------------------------
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According to Melis, the shardana arrived in SARDINIA 2300 – 2000 BCE, about the same time they arrived in Tuscany and Latium on the mainland of Italy, as well as on the Balearic islands off Spain, and on Crete and Cyprus. For this essay, it is sufficient to note that these semites, like everyone else, were african in origin, and revered a woman divinity. The woman divinity of the shardana is glimpsed in bronze age cruciform figurines of a female and in many statuettes offering her nurturing breasts- - figurines very similar to those on other african migration paths in Europe. The "peoples of the sea"/shardana have been described as violent; but this is unclear because the 7000 bee-hive shaped megalithic structures (nuraghi) associated with shardana settlements have no evidence of weapons. The shardana are enigmatic; their warrior shields resemble women's breasts, with nipples. Icons of shardana warriors feature four eyes; Dianne Jenett pointed out to me that four eyes are characteristic of the earlier eye goddess of Tell Brak of Iraq (ca. 3000 BCE)(3) The point at hand for mediterranean, sardinian, sicilian, italian , and world history, is that the shardana, in Sardinia, an island which archeologists regard as a museum of the prehistory of Europe, venerated a dark mother, whom Melis calls Mater Mediterranea. The connection with african beliefs is suggested in that menhirs and dolmens were central icons of nuragic communities. Figurines of women in nuragic communities hold the solar disk, symbol of african veneration of the sun; hold their breasts in an african nurturant gesture, and there is evidence that they engaged in african water rituals. . NURAGHI of Sardinia resemble sanctuaries in Zimbabwe in Africa. In Sardinia, the belief in the dark mother and her values appears to be continuous from prehistory to the present. Ancient caves where early african migrants lived were later called domus de Janus by the romans; today these caves are popularly considered dwellings of women with supernatural powers. In Sardinia the early christian church at Saccargia was originally megalith in form . Inside the church at Saccargia (rebuilt in the middle ages),we saw two black madonnas.
San Marcos and Austin, Texas (USA) - September 29/30 - ½ October 2005
SHARDANA I POPOLI DEL MARE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGAnMMiLug
"SOS SHARDANA RIBELLES KI NEMOS PODET BINKERE"
Presto il nuovo libro di Leonardo Melis... in egitto!
