The book ('From the Invisible Side of the Sky') talks about the Old Faith religion (Non-Christian faith), Old Faith people as well as about the Old Faith as a way of life which was known to our ...ancestors, before they were Christianized. However, it does not describe something that was alive just a thousand years ago, but it attests life in the 19th and 20th century, here, among us. Pavel Medvešček, half a century ago, managed to win the trust of the Old Faith people in the Soča valley (western Slovenia). He was accepted as their “confessor” and speaker. In doing so, they were led by an awareness that they are the last of their kind and have a unique opportunity to tell the world who they are and how they live in a way that is dying out. In medieval and early modern writings there are descriptions of the Old Faith in Europe, but their authors were Christians, mostly even Christian priests. They were necessarily deficient informed, their story biased, pejorative, mocking, their image of the Old Faith inevitably completely distorted. Through Medvešček as a writer, in the book the Old Faith people themselves talk about themselves. This did not succeed ever before and elsewhere, because they constantly have to hide and to pretend. It is this 'inner voice' which gives the book an incomparable, unique value of utmost importance, especially in an increasingly wilder, globalized world.
The monograph La religiosità popolare in Val Canale: Il teschio lavato e avvolto nel panno (Popular piety in the Canale Valley: The skull that is washed and wrapped in cloth) is re-writed and updated ...version of Slovenian monograph Ljudska religioznost v Kanalski dolini: O umiti in v prt zaviti lobanji (2014). The book illustrates the festive year of Slovenes in the Canale Valley from the perspective of current ritualistic practices (still in use today). The identifying elements of the Slovenian linguistic community are recognizable in the implementation of various (popular) religious practices by the local population. The author presents the rituals (with selected prayer formulas), described as an integral part of their life by Slovenian-speaking informants - all of whom are indigenous, native people of the Canale Valley - that was described, from the point of view of experts in the fields (e.g. Kuret 1989) as typical of the Slovenian community in general.
The monograph illustrates the festive year of Slovenes in the Canale Valley from the perspective of current ritualistic practices (still in use today). The identifying elements of the Slovenian ...linguistic community are recognizable in the implementation of various (popular) religious practices by the local population. The author presents the rituals (with selected prayer formulas), described as an integral part of their life by Slovenian-speaking informants – all of whom are indigenous, native people of the Canale Valley – that was described, from the point of view of experts in the fields (e.g. Kuret 1989) as typical of the Slovenian community in general.
This book ('I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture') researches the common symbolism of the circular movement in European ...tradition and culture through the ethnographical, historical and linguistic sources from different regions of Europe and from different historical periods. The circular movement is identifyed as the movement which is in traditional world view and understanding of the space caracteristic for the movements between this world and the other. At the same time it enables the communication between the worlds and transmition from one to the other.
Edinstveno doživetje narave, v katerem se prepletata umetniški in mitski izraz, se prične v Centru za obiskovalce v Rodiku.Razstava z naslovom Mitske in druge resničnosti sledi Einsteinovi misli: » ...»Vse religije, umetnosti in znanosti so veje istega drevesa. Vse te težnje bogatijo človekovo življenje, ga dvigujejo s področja golega fizičnega obstoja in vodijo do svobode.«Danes dominantna znanstvena interpretacija mitske krajine na razstavi ni v ospredju, temveč ta vloga pripada mitski stvarnosti. V dialog z znanostjo je prvič postavljena geomantična interpretacija sveta skozi umetnost Marka Pogačnika. Temeljna ontološka vprašanja na razstavi so: Kdo smo? Kje smo? Kam gremo? Odgovori so ponujeni skozi znanstveno, psevdoznanstveno, religiozno, mitsko in umetniško perspektivo. Na razstavi ni digitalnih rešitev, temveč interakcije zbujajo pri obiskovalcih čute ter jih vzpodbujajo k interakciji z razstavo in k refleksiji o lastnem pogledu na svet. Mitski park je plod zglednega vzornega sodelovanja med različnimi partnerji, lokalno skupnostjo in strokovnjaki. Ogled parka in razstave je zabaven, zanimiv, poučen, inovativen, tako za odrasle, otroke in tudi družine. Vsakdo najde izziv zase.Voden ogled razstave traja 30–45 minut.Vsebino za razstavo je podala UP Fakulteta za humanistiko v sodelovanju s partnerjem Arhej , idejna zasnova celotnega prostora pa je delo oblikovalke Sanje Jurca Avci iz Zavoda TRANS.
Rodik stoji ob vznožju Brkinov na sečišču dveh svetov. Kraški in brkinski svet loči bel kamen, ki je v spodnjem delu vasi. Stari del gručaste vasi, je na pobočju nad staro cesto Divača – Kozina, novo ...naselje pa se steza od železniškega mostu v smeri proti Kozini. Vas leži na nadmorski višini 540 – 620 m. Od juga proti severu ga obkrožata griča Maganka in Čelevo ter višje vzpetine Čuk, Luza in Tabor.“Mitski park v Rodiku nosi v sebi bogastvo nesnovne kulturne dediščine materializirane v krajini. Dvanajst mitsko-folklornih mest bodo ponesli obiskovalce v svet percepcij sveta naših prednikov, od slovanskega in predslovanskega mitskega izročila o mitski babi, o kultnem kačonu, šembilji kot hudiču na gorečem vozu do naših prednamcev ajdov, enigmatičnih mest vstopa v svet mrtvih prek jam in ‘mrtvih počival’ vse do krščanskih oblikovalcev krajine.” (Mitski, 2020, 2)
Edinstveno doživetje narave, v katerem se prepletata umetniški in mitski izraz, se prične v Centru za obiskovalce v Rodiku.Razstava z naslovom Mitske in druge resničnosti sledi Einsteinovi misli: » ...»Vse religije, umetnosti in znanosti so veje istega drevesa. Vse te težnje bogatijo človekovo življenje, ga dvigujejo s področja golega fizičnega obstoja in vodijo do svobode.«Danes dominantna znanstvena interpretacija mitske krajine na razstavi ni v ospredju, temveč ta vloga pripada mitski stvarnosti. V dialog z znanostjo je prvič postavljena geomantična interpretacija sveta skozi umetnost Marka Pogačnika. Temeljna ontološka vprašanja na razstavi so: Kdo smo? Kje smo? Kam gremo? Odgovori so ponujeni skozi znanstveno, psevdoznanstveno, religiozno, mitsko in umetniško perspektivo. Na razstavi ni digitalnih rešitev, temveč interakcije zbujajo pri obiskovalcih čute ter jih vzpodbujajo k interakciji z razstavo in k refleksiji o lastnem pogledu na svet. Mitski park je plod zglednega vzornega sodelovanja med različnimi partnerji, lokalno skupnostjo in strokovnjaki. Ogled parka in razstave je zabaven, zanimiv, poučen, inovativen, tako za odrasle, otroke in tudi družine. Vsakdo najde izziv zase.Voden ogled razstave traja 30–45 minut.Vsebino za razstavo je podala UP Fakulteta za humanistiko v sodelovanju s partnerjem Arhej , idejna zasnova celotnega prostora pa je delo oblikovalke Sanje Jurca Avci iz Zavoda TRANS.
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