Motta di Salvarosa, A Fairy Seat? by sandra46
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Description
This is the motta of Salvarosa (Salvarosa mound/barrow), a funerary mound in a tiny hamlet near Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso Province), built during the Bronze Age. And it is also a slide for the same conference I made the previous one I posted (Buffetto Mound 8). In Scotland and ireland these mounds are thought to be the fairies' dwellings. They are called Sidhe in Irish and Sith in Scottish Gaelic, a word referred both to the mound and the fairy people.
SÃdhe pronounced shee, modern Irish: si; Scottish Gaelic: sith) is a Gaelic word possibly used as a safely euphemistic reference to Scottish Gaelic siodhe, referring first to earthen mounds that were thought to be home to a supernatural race related to the fey and elves of other traditions, and later to these inhabitants themselves. The "people of the mounds" are more correctly referred to as the Daoine Sidhe or Daoine Sith and are variously believed to be the ancestors, the spirits of nature, or the goddesses and gods themselves.
There are a number of words in Italian to refer to these mounds, such as motta, motera, muttiron, etc. all from a Northern Italian Celtic word identical to the Scottish and Irish Gaelic word 'mothran' (meaning: a tuft of trees, a horrifying cry, a mound, a wooded bog, etc.), but none is similar to sidhe/sith. Anyway, there are many stories about fairies living in the streams, caves, woods, bogs etc., all of them usually near these mounds, even if there is no story about the mound as the fairies' specific dwelling in our region. These faieries are called Anguane and other local names. These names are related to the Welsh name Angwyn (gwyn, "white; blessed; holy" + an, an intensifying prefix). So Anguane can be translated The Blessed Ones.
Thanks for your kind comments.
Comments (42)
Radar_rad-dude
A very masterful and wonderful work of art, Sandra! Bravo! Many fine kudos on this image and your descriptive!
A_Sunbeam
Nicely done!
Isabelle711
This is a most beautiful and safe place for fairies. :)))))) I think it would be sweet to be a fairy. :)))) Most excellent capture and info my friend. :)))))) Thank you for sharing all of the beauty you see. :))))) Carry A Sunshine Smile In Your Heart :)))))
ia-du-lin
beautiful composition
Rhanagaz
Great work, Sandra - and thank you for a fine info about these mounds!! :o)
Darkwish
Amazing, very well done!
Hendesse
Fantastic image and thanks for the interesting informations.
Thetis
wonderful illustration of legend and history
KatesFriend
I had forgotten how wide spread the Celts were through Europe once upon a time. There influence seems to touch and link almost every European culture into the present day.
bakapo
oooh, very nice!
tennesseecowgirl
wonderful postwork and image!
myrrhluz
Beautiful image and postwork. I love the tree. The mound, tree, fairy, and birds all seem to be connected and in communion with each other. There is a feeling of the close ties between them. Very lovely work.