Sardinia Tradition Su Nenneri, one of the most ancient Mediterranean tale.
What Su Nenneri is?
Here we speak about Sardinia tradition of the Su Nenneri, it is perhaps the most linked to the rebirth after death cult and it has a perfect evocation during Easter week.
So we went to the church of Sant. Efisio in Cagliari on the Holy Friday procession and, we saw a whole altar fully decorated with it.
Su Nenniri (or even Nenneri) is simply the seed of the grain stored in a jar with soil and often watered, kept in the dark to sprout in a bright yellow-green plant.
The myth of Adonis.
The root of this Sardinia tradition spread throughout the island but, in Cagliari during Easter there is the maximum realization sinks in the ancient pagan religions of the Mediterranean.
The myth of Adonis, which is disputed by Persephone and Aphrodite in love with the beautiful blond young man who spends four months at the Hell, four months on the Earth, killed during a hunt by a wild boar and from whose blood is born Anemone.
It’s a brilliant myth tha speaks about the birth of Spring and anticipates the Passion of Christ crucified and risen.
Where can I see Su Nenneri, in Cagliari city?
On the floor in front of the altar, and in front of the signs of the Passion (the cross, the statue of the Madonna) women were placing these beautiful vases decorated with colored ribbons, so we took some photos at the altar of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the church of Sant’Efisio real pearl in Stampace district, Cagliari, where the Sardinia patron saint was dressed in mourning.
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