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Everyone
knows that "the children are brought by the Stork"
and since immemorial times this majestic and fascinating bird
is associated with birth, fertility and motherhood. Surely the
explanation is due to the fact that the stork is a migratory
bird and every year when come the spring, it returns in the
same place, making a nest with an exceptional accuracy. If the
Ancients noticed this detail, we must also remember how the
stork white bird like pelican and swan, is associated with light
and salvation. The association between the Stork and the Divine
comes from the fact that this bird is often seen in the spout
to keep snakes and little reptiles. This ability to fight against
the poison of reptiles makes the stork an incarnation of the
Mother Goddess that can cure poisons with the Magic. Isis in
Egypt, Diana in Greece, Turan and Angizia in Etruria and in
central-south Italy are goddesses capable of curing diseases
and poisoning. In particular Angizia is an ancient italic Goddess
very similar to Isis and that is clearly called "Goddess
Stork". Apart from being invoked for the childbirths and
for the diseases, Angizia (also known in ancient times Anxa,
Anxia or Anctia) is related to snakes and even today, in Abruzzo,
in the region of Marsa, in the village of Cocullo, there is
a religious procession that honoures the snakes. If in the past
the people venerate the statue of the Goddess Angizia covered
with snakes, now with a bad syncretism it was replaced with
the Christian statue of San Domenico. The meaning remains the
same, is really horrible to see how the Catholic Church has
canceled ancestral cults replacing them with meaningless copies. |
