April 4,2009
I found the church where they are working on all the statues that they will be carrying in the Good Friday procession. They are so big and heavy, they are abou 8 feet tall, it will take about 8 men to carry each one.
I took about 30 pictures, have not included them all.
4 comments:
Hi! Buon Giorno!
The murtis [sacred images] are incredibly beautiful! They look so realistic.
That will really be an interesting experience to be there during the procession.
In other countries, such as in the New World, do the Catholics take out the murtis for procession like this? Only on the feast day of the saints? Or never?
I'm glad you will be able to participate in this! During medieval times in Italy was customary to have ox-drawn cart with religious emblems on it and processionals during holy days and important celebrations.
If a town lost to another town in a battle, sometimes they even had to surrender their religious cart [sob!].
In many cultures they have this idea of to take deities on a ride on the holy days. In Japan for example they have small deities for procession [for Mikoshi, or festivals] and the larger deity stays in the temple.
I think they have similar in India also. Around medieval times all throughout the world had this same idea, even the religions were different: people had the same sentiments.
Love
Hi!
Especially moving are the various crucifixion murtis [sacred images] of Christ. They are very dynamic, i.e. showing in different action poses. Versus in New World mostly is seen a more static pose.
Is very interesting the different archetypes you have shown give a sort of psychological relief to simply see these murtis you have just shown.
For example, most people probably have a hard life. Even we don't want miseries, misfortunes, they seem to come. So this murti of the suffering Christ, it seems that he would know your sufferings and would be a person you can confide in.
So is like a collective type of therapy to give honor to the murtis and give care and love and attention to them: for the innocent and simple-hearted people.
Especially when life was so difficult in the Middle Ages, it must have really been a source of solace to people.
It's nice that you have shared these images. I find it very interesting to see the original source of a tradition. In these original images they had very good artists who can portray very realistic and lifelike scene.
It seems easier to get caught up in the emotions if the images are more lifelike, for me anyway.
Then, later when the tradition moved to other places, maybe they could not afford such good artist/ sculptors. So then the deities were more static looking and not as numerous.
I'm also happy to hear that there are guards in the park.
Love
Hi!
Do you notice difference between Sicilian dialect accent and Italian? Such as beddu = beautiful, cacoccila = artichoke
Love
no, I do not notice a difference in accent.
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