Motta Buffetto Mound 3 by sandra46
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A view of the mound from the farmer's courtyard. I don't know what trees frame the mound, but on the right you can see some of the vineyards, while the white strip on the background is the highway. What is peculiar to these mounds (whatever the type) is that they are at a fixed distance. It's a discovery made by the two Simons, my friends. The mounds can be found on a straight line, at 7,8 km from each other, from east to west, and at 5,3 km from each other from south to north. This means that there is another mound at 7,8 km from the Motta Buffetto mound on the east/west direction, and another at 5,3 km south/north of it. Or it existed before the agricultural changes of the last centuries destroyed them but they can be found on the old maps, or by means of aerial photography. We are still musing on the meaning of this phenomenon. I think they are a catchment area (5,3 km) and a local procurement zone (7-8 km): once people used to have all their resources at about one hour on foot from the village/home as a centre of a circle. About 7 km is the distance to go to another village on foot or by boat and come back within the day. Of course villages could also be closer (in the area we have about a village every 2-3 km), but 7-8 km was the farther one could reach to go trading her/his goods and come back home (7-8 km to go and 7-8 km for the return trip) for dinner. Traveling during the night was too dangerous both for practical and religious reasons. In the next posts I'll show you some images of the land around the farm.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (38)
FredNunes
Beautifully done! :-)
drifterlee
Beautiful and interesting shot, Sandra!
soffy
Wonderful shot,so beautiful*****
flaviok
Que maravilha minha amiga, obrigado pelo texto, excelente captura, aplausos (5)
evinrude
AWESOME!!!
Kaartijer
Awesome image!
myrrhluz
What peculiar looking trees! Instead of being stately and majestic, they look like they are decked out for some kind of crazy party. Nice capture and very interesting information. How many mounds or indications of mounds have been located? I found an interesting site, which had a lot of your pictures, so I'm assuming is connected to this work, but it was in Italian. I am woefully ignorant of any language other than English. Is there an English version? The one I found was here: http://hakomagazine.net/archeonordest/protostoria/le_culture_delle_motte.pdf My apologies if you have already supplied a link in a previous post. It's all very interesting!
anahata.c
as a capture of some beautiful and primal natural forms (esp those muscular squat trees in front), this is a scintillating shot. As a capture of a mound in-context---so we see again that the mound isn't that large an area---it's also a fascinating, telling shot. Telling because of the familar sights around it (vineyard, road, etc). You know, this will be from far off, but you might find it interesting. In the depths of meditation, some meditators begin to see visions. Put no supernatural connotations to that: The term implies very vivid "concretizations" of one's imagination, mixed with memory, emotion, desire, etc. (I don't speak of future-telling visions, visions of one's destiny, etc etc.) In those visions (I had many, and was asked to study them), one sees the roots of so much legend, lore, folktale, etc. This is not a scholarly statement, of course, as I have no cross-sources, backgrounds, etc to back it up; rather, it's an observation from personal practice. But one can see how we shape the pieces of our lives into narratives, from observing the generation of a vision; and if there is some event---a death, say---which impinges on one's life during their vision-times, those visions will incorporate that death in the most astonishing ways. You can almost see how that death reshapes the stuff of imagination, as if it were a magnet that pulled all this "stuff" to it, to its contours, crevices, etc. And you also see that your own symbols, themes, imageries, etc, have much in common with those of ancient cultures; which is not a statement of one's acumen, but merely the speculation that our minds contain the capacity to create similar motifs across time and culture. I assume your work takes you to such connections; and as one reads you in your uploads, one assumes you spend a good deal of your professional time seeking and comparing them. And how the cataclysmic events of life invariably transform the images and tales they create. I can tell you, for example, that, after many years of visions, the morass and jungle of imagery found in the ancient Hindu legends makes vivid sense. Anyway, this series offers fascinating narrative, and this is a beautiful shot to go with it, allowing us to see how modern life encroaches upon these ancient testaments to human imagination.