THE MOTHER GODDESS
The first inhabitants of the isle of Malta, had a deep inclination to mysticism.
The verdant archipelago, full of small elephants, was a true paradise.
In 5000 B.C., to celebrate such a natural plenty, they built many temples.
The planimetry of those buildings looked like a woman’s body shape,
and they were dedicated to the Mother Goddess.
She represents fertility, wealth and spirituality in harmony with life on the Earth,
and the worship we can find in many ancient populations.
It comes to us by means of the Holy Virgin veneration.
We have many thin connections between these old times
and today’s world, and thanks to these stories they get a meaning.
The National Archaeological Museum of Malta, keeps impressive
or very small statues that are a representation of this worship.
The body shape of the Mother Goddess, is intentionally massive (too fat),
just to represent different manifestations of the inner divine power.
In the Maltese Mother Goddess, it is the buttock that has prominence,
the Goddess of life.
The styling is the expression of the holy meaning of this masterpiece.
The small statues from the old Neolithic age, with buttocks egg shaped,
give evidence to the dual meaning of a woman’s life: a mother and her child,
the pregnancy.
The celebration of the childbirth has a very deep meaning: human life.
It begins in the "water kingdom" named "womb". For that reason,
the Goddess was the source of life all over the world: for mankind, for animals and vegetables.
She had her kingdom over every water spring: rivers, wells and clouds of rain.
Christian pilgrims visited water springs where the saint patron was a feminine
divinity: the Holy Virgin Mary, or in Ireland, St Bridget.
The Mother Goddess has different names, because she is one and many
divine entities
The bird-snake goddess, that symbolizes the continuation of life
The goddess of birth
The goddess of life
Aphrodite in Greece
The goddess of death
The goddess of rebirthing
The goddess Creator
The goddess destroyer
The goddess of the Earth
The goddess frog
The goddess bee
The goddess of revival
Kali, the Indian Hindu goddess for transformation
The Big mother, because she was the maker of the whole universe, for the eternity.
The first inhabitants of the isle of Malta, had a deep inclination to mysticism.
The verdant archipelago, full of small elephants, was a true paradise.
In 5000 B.C., to celebrate such a natural plenty, they built many temples.
The planimetry of those buildings looked like a woman’s body shape,
and they were dedicated to the Mother Goddess.
She represents fertility, wealth and spirituality in harmony with life on the Earth,
and the worship we can find in many ancient populations.
It comes to us by means of the Holy Virgin veneration.
We have many thin connections between these old times
and today’s world, and thanks to these stories they get a meaning.
The National Archaeological Museum of Malta, keeps impressive
or very small statues that are a representation of this worship.
The body shape of the Mother Goddess, is intentionally massive (too fat),
just to represent different manifestations of the inner divine power.
In the Maltese Mother Goddess, it is the buttock that has prominence,
the Goddess of life.
The styling is the expression of the holy meaning of this masterpiece.
The small statues from the old Neolithic age, with buttocks egg shaped,
give evidence to the dual meaning of a woman’s life: a mother and her child,
the pregnancy.
The celebration of the childbirth has a very deep meaning: human life.
It begins in the "water kingdom" named "womb". For that reason,
the Goddess was the source of life all over the world: for mankind, for animals and vegetables.
She had her kingdom over every water spring: rivers, wells and clouds of rain.
Christian pilgrims visited water springs where the saint patron was a feminine
divinity: the Holy Virgin Mary, or in Ireland, St Bridget.
The Mother Goddess has different names, because she is one and many
divine entities
The bird-snake goddess, that symbolizes the continuation of life
The goddess of birth
The goddess of life
Aphrodite in Greece
The goddess of death
The goddess of rebirthing
The goddess Creator
The goddess destroyer
The goddess of the Earth
The goddess frog
The goddess bee
The goddess of revival
Kali, the Indian Hindu goddess for transformation
The Big mother, because she was the maker of the whole universe, for the eternity.
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BEAUTY - METAMORPHOSIS
If a very beautiful face is sufficient to be seductive, beauty, for giving a strong impact must be much more than a simple image. It should represent something bigger, able to touch the soul.
Music is the expression of the artist’s emotions, thoughts and passions.
Sensations that a face, for itself, can’t transmit.
Today, beauty has many shapes, but each person can choose what is the best for himself.
If a very beautiful face is sufficient to be seductive, beauty, for giving a strong impact must be much more than a simple image. It should represent something bigger, able to touch the soul.
Music is the expression of the artist’s emotions, thoughts and passions.
Sensations that a face, for itself, can’t transmit.
Today, beauty has many shapes, but each person can choose what is the best for himself.
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INDIAN ART SPIRITUALITY
I wrote this pages in the occasion of an exhibition – held in Lugano -(Switzerland) of Indian jewels .
The jewels are very uncommon and old pieces, looked for with passion in five years of research by Indian friends of mine, who gave them to me as a very precious gift.
The choice is not casual, because I inspire to the characteristic of the Indian culture for creating my collections. For the jewel is the symbol of light and the divine that is inside us.
In the Indian culture, and in my mind, the art has a sacred function and a jewel has to give value to the spiritual part of the human body.
The sacred principle of the art, that belongs to other cultures as well, as demonstrated by the thought of Rudolf Steiner and the works of Vasilij Kandinskij.
For both of them, the true art must take to the divine-spiritual side on the Earth, and on the other part it must structuralize the physical life, so in its shapes, colours, words and sounds we can see the outer earthly sphere, even if it is an earthly display.
I looked at the jewels in the exhibition, and I couldn’t forget that the Indian art is an art that help us "to centre" the person, to get very healthy (Indian principle of "holi").
The Indian works are the production of mystics.
They meditate long before realizing an artistic concept.
If started from this point, the artistic contemplation take us to the inner silence and to a meditative condition.
Every jewel celebrates the spiritual body look, with its divine meaning, so it can go further the decorative look and it is able to give evidence to the spiritual beauty present in every man.
The characteristics of the decorations, give evidence to the thousands facets of spirituality of this culture.
In the Indian jewels we can admire small pearls, very similar to small rings, created to produce the sound and give musicality to life, to dancing, to joy.
But I can’t understand at all the meaning of these small rings, if I don’t consider that the Indian dancing is a way to pray and the musicality of the small pearls remind to this principle of sacred entities.
The black colour, used to make necklace ribbons, has its sacred meaning, that is to protect from bad energies.
And more: Indian women take their jewels as their trousseau, and decorate their body using all of them. This is done to point out their belonging and spiritual value.
The pendants are conceived as amulets in which, sometimes, we can see the hints of human feet. They are present, sometimes, in the temples as a proof of the descent of God on the Earth.
In these collections there are the Sadu jewels, people who live alone and on charity. They are decorated with Rudraksha nuts: sacred seeds of Shiva god, the destroyer.
The Rudrraksha are used as pendants, shaped as small box, very similar to small cases. They contain "mantras", that is propitiatory prayers.
We can’t forget that in the holy images, jewels are used both by gods and goddesses.
There is not any difference of sex, because of the precious entity of soul is masculine and feminine.
To understand the true meaning of these gold creations, we must have knowledge some of the most common characters of Indian mythology.
The triangular shape, for example, has a precise sacred meaning.
The three apexes of the triangle, remind to the Indian trilogy: Brama, the creator; Visnu the guardian god and Shiva the destroyer. He has on his head the source of Gange river, which is on the Himalayan chain.
This latest divinity is known with other names, as well: Shiva Nataraj, the dancing god in the fire circle. His wife is the goddess Parvati (Mountain) and his son is the god Ganesh (Elephant).
We can’t forget Krishna: it is the most reincarnation of God. He loves Gopi (young shepherdesses) and prefers to play the flute next to brooks.
In some pictures, he has on his head peacock feathers, which is the national symbol of India for its many colours, and symbol of spiritual diversity.
The image of a peacock is engraved on the flute of Krishna as well, a god that doesn’t ask for sacrifices, and whose hands position points out an inner peace, silence and meditation-nirvana (mahamudra bliss).
The god Krishna "da kendr" (Centre) has a movement of the body shaped as the number eight. It is the symbol of the infinite.
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I wrote this pages in the occasion of an exhibition – held in Lugano -(Switzerland) of Indian jewels .
The jewels are very uncommon and old pieces, looked for with passion in five years of research by Indian friends of mine, who gave them to me as a very precious gift.
The choice is not casual, because I inspire to the characteristic of the Indian culture for creating my collections. For the jewel is the symbol of light and the divine that is inside us.
In the Indian culture, and in my mind, the art has a sacred function and a jewel has to give value to the spiritual part of the human body.
The sacred principle of the art, that belongs to other cultures as well, as demonstrated by the thought of Rudolf Steiner and the works of Vasilij Kandinskij.
For both of them, the true art must take to the divine-spiritual side on the Earth, and on the other part it must structuralize the physical life, so in its shapes, colours, words and sounds we can see the outer earthly sphere, even if it is an earthly display.
I looked at the jewels in the exhibition, and I couldn’t forget that the Indian art is an art that help us "to centre" the person, to get very healthy (Indian principle of "holi").
The Indian works are the production of mystics.
They meditate long before realizing an artistic concept.
If started from this point, the artistic contemplation take us to the inner silence and to a meditative condition.
Every jewel celebrates the spiritual body look, with its divine meaning, so it can go further the decorative look and it is able to give evidence to the spiritual beauty present in every man.
The characteristics of the decorations, give evidence to the thousands facets of spirituality of this culture.
In the Indian jewels we can admire small pearls, very similar to small rings, created to produce the sound and give musicality to life, to dancing, to joy.
But I can’t understand at all the meaning of these small rings, if I don’t consider that the Indian dancing is a way to pray and the musicality of the small pearls remind to this principle of sacred entities.
The black colour, used to make necklace ribbons, has its sacred meaning, that is to protect from bad energies.
And more: Indian women take their jewels as their trousseau, and decorate their body using all of them. This is done to point out their belonging and spiritual value.
The pendants are conceived as amulets in which, sometimes, we can see the hints of human feet. They are present, sometimes, in the temples as a proof of the descent of God on the Earth.
In these collections there are the Sadu jewels, people who live alone and on charity. They are decorated with Rudraksha nuts: sacred seeds of Shiva god, the destroyer.
The Rudrraksha are used as pendants, shaped as small box, very similar to small cases. They contain "mantras", that is propitiatory prayers.
We can’t forget that in the holy images, jewels are used both by gods and goddesses.
There is not any difference of sex, because of the precious entity of soul is masculine and feminine.
To understand the true meaning of these gold creations, we must have knowledge some of the most common characters of Indian mythology.
The triangular shape, for example, has a precise sacred meaning.
The three apexes of the triangle, remind to the Indian trilogy: Brama, the creator; Visnu the guardian god and Shiva the destroyer. He has on his head the source of Gange river, which is on the Himalayan chain.
This latest divinity is known with other names, as well: Shiva Nataraj, the dancing god in the fire circle. His wife is the goddess Parvati (Mountain) and his son is the god Ganesh (Elephant).
We can’t forget Krishna: it is the most reincarnation of God. He loves Gopi (young shepherdesses) and prefers to play the flute next to brooks.
In some pictures, he has on his head peacock feathers, which is the national symbol of India for its many colours, and symbol of spiritual diversity.
The image of a peacock is engraved on the flute of Krishna as well, a god that doesn’t ask for sacrifices, and whose hands position points out an inner peace, silence and meditation-nirvana (mahamudra bliss).
The god Krishna "da kendr" (Centre) has a movement of the body shaped as the number eight. It is the symbol of the infinite.
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