The Celts called it "ANAGANTIOS" (time to be at home). It's our month of January, one of those twelve vague "time units" to which we have reduced our calendar.
Ormai, osserviamo lo scorrere del tempo più che altro per sapere quanto manca al prossimo stipendio o per ragioni legate all'ordinaria gestione burocratica e materiale del tempo, questo qualcosa di effimero, che ci fa anche un po' paura, e di cui si è persa quasi completamente la "magicità".
Computer, telefonini e quant'altro ci dicono all'istante in quale momento dell'anno ci troviamo ma certamente non sono in grado di spiegarci il senso di ogni mese, di ogni giorno...
La bellezza del trascorrere dei mesi si è persa, in effetti, di pari passo con lo smarrimento più completo del senso magico della vita.
Per tornare ai Celti (ma si potrebbero cite a large number of calculations and spiritual cosmologies belonging to different peoples of the earth), the passing of the months was intimately linked to their integration with the rural life, agricultural and forest.
commentator dampened deleterious materialism today, then, will say that the Celts worked out a convenient way to identify the time, based on both "farm" of the months in order to easily identify a number of jobs and committing only "material" . But it is a blunder born of complete ignorance (or underestimate) the fact that every month for the Celts had his "soul" that was associated with an entire quantity of spirits and intrinsic meaning. Non sto parlando, qui, di superstizioni bensì sto tentando di spiegare con parole ordinarie un modo di intendere la vita radicalmente diverso dal nostro distratto e goffo balletto che chiamiamo "esistenza".
Consideriamo, allora, i 12 mesi così come li chiamavano (e vedevano) i Celti. Il loro calendario, secondo una interpretazione riguardante le popolazioni continentali e dell'Italia del Nord, era così interpretabile:
Gennaio: ANAGANTIOS (tempo per restare a casa)
Febbraio: OGRONIOS (tempo del gelo)
Marzo: CUTIOS (tempo dei venti)
Aprile: GIAMONIOS (tempo dei germogli)
May: SIMIVISONIOS (clear weather)
June: Equos time (of horses)
July: ELEMBIUOS (time of meetings to do justice)
August: EDRINOS (time of the issuance of judgments)
September : CANTLOS (Time songs)
October: Samonios (sowing time)
November: DUMANNIOS (time of darkness deeper)
December: RIUROS (cold weather)
Clearly, they will say the historian, anthropologist, ethnologist modern, it is easy to access schematization mnemonic based on the activities agricultural and rural life of those people that perhaps did not even write.
This error is typical of the commentators at the "Quark" was born, as I said, from having lost the deep fusion of man and the profound identification with the rhythms of a planet that now has only a parking lot without guardians, just a land of conquest and survival.
In reality, we must "enter" within the meaning of those definitions and try to recover the authentic plethora of modes of interpretation that they had.
The agricultural calendar, with the various activities that the land required in the course of months, was therefore an extension of the spiritual rhythm stesso della vita e dell'uomo.
Non si tratta, quindi, di cose mistiche o riservate a determinate caste sacerdotali bensì di una comunione di esistenza che non faceva alcuna distinzione perché da tutti sentita e vissuta.
Ecco allora che l'"oscurità profonda" alla quale veniva associato il mese di Novembre, per fare un esempio, rappresenta anche l'inizio del riposo interiore che coinvolge l'energia della terra e lo spirito degli uomini; la rigenerazione nascente dalla profonda introspezione, dal raccogliersi in se stessi, dall'elaborazione delle cose vissute che solo un buio profondo, non distraente, può darci.
Oppure il "tempo dei germogli", ovvero Aprile, is the representation of the seed was born in the darkest months of life and which slowly opens. But, clearly, is not only intended as plant life: that is, shall we say, "the ordinary approach" to a month, then there is "unique approach" and then it is of great interest to ask what " shoots "chosen as a symbol for the month of April.
Without sliding into easy clichés of more or less mystical abstraction, is the "sense of the bud," and the magical symbolism, ranging recovered. This is the path that we should do when we get closer to the soul of peoples as the Celts, who dwell deep in our history, and therefore also in us, but of which we are no longer able to understand the language.
An example might be the evidence of what has been said is the definition chosen to designate the month of September, called "Cantlos": "Time of Songs".
Why these people chose the very act of singing to designate the month of September when they could instead be inspired by the ripe corn, the grape 'or more properly to other aspects of agriculture that time of year?
The answer can only be one: the man then took the "spirit of joy" that the earth itself gave off with its full prosperity, with the golden fruits of his maturity ... In other words, they sang the "Round the maturity of the earth."
short, agricultural activities are essential to a "growing" parallel, deep inner life of man who was the one with the earth and the seasons that marks the passing of time. And, mind you, this is not only idyllic and utopian longing for the bucolic and serene worlds, far from it.
Life was also suffering, hardness, hardship and death. But in the representation of the months, these people chose the aspects that could also be recalled that "the parallel pulse" . ..
(Cris)
Source: Edicolaweb - Antonio Di Bruno
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