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a true open museum
Cult and Divinity Most of the prehistoric monuments surviving to this day are strictly linked to the religious faith of the island’s ancient inhabitants. Each culture has left the sign of its piety in the cult of ancestors and in the "imprints” of an immanent divinity where the signs of nature and of the heavens must have had a relevant role. All this certainly leads back to a naturalistic concept of the divine, where mystery and magic reigned. The principles of fertility were linked to the agrarian cult, traceable to at least two divinities: one female, in the double function of child-bearer and nourisher, and one male, who fertilises. The Great Goddess, mother of all living things, vegetable, animal and human, associated with the earth where everything originated and to which everything returned in an eternal cycle, where death was the origin of life and not vice-versa: a seed must die so that it may give life to many fruits.
A stone pinnetta, with fences added for keeping animals, in Monte Manzanu (Macomer)
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