Un impulso inconsciente nos influyó hace poco a realizar un determinado ritual. Nadie nos había contado nada antes, pero lo intuimos. Supimos, como si de un acto de nuestro instinto humano se tratara, que teníamos que hacerlo. Y lo hicimos.
Algo primitivo, ancestral, se apoderó de nosotros al ver el lugar privilegiado: un lugar elevado de la montaña, un llano de reducidas dimensiones con un único acceso a pie y rodeado de escarpados precipicios, un punto privilegiado de la orografía que ofrecía unas espléndidas vistas hacia diversos valles y hacia las montañas de singular Montserrat is ... in short, a setting worthy to build a temple.
And, as if it were a unique temple, in this special place had a considerable number of piles of stones. Turrets larger and smaller ones scattered throughout the limited extension of the highlands, which were displayed before our eyes enigmatic.
After initial instinct help add another stone to augment one of the mounds, start a new pile of rock songs selected by providing the environment that we identified with the people we, as a symbolic representation of desire closer, to gather loved ones and invoking, by that fact, to some higher force to protect the group. After accommodating, one by one, all the stones in the heap selected by procuring stability to the whole group, we hope, eventually, the battery is feeding new stones.
Today, Wednesday, I remembered that instinctive ritual practiced a few days ago and I've searched documentation in similar circumstances.
is hardly surprising that early man used, possibly, the stacking stones as a tool through which he could invoke the gods. In the old Tibetan and Egyptian civilizations were already performing similar conical piles of stones with spiritual purpose, which resulted in crowding pyramidal design works. That in the highlands of the Andes similar mounds are built - the cairns - in honor of his mother earth Pacha Mana. Or point of our peninsula, as in Cross Mount Ferro Irago on the road to Santiago, there is a pile of stones grows day after day, with the contribution of the pilgrims.
It is hardly surprising that this pile of stones is also called the mercurial, the concept is related to the god Mercury, which is the same concept as the Greek god Hermes, the "beautiful" were also piles of stones that were made in the margins of the roads and every passer added a stone to the pile, beautiful carvings resulted in like a stone cairns, landmarks or milestones in the mountain roads are often made with a small mound of stones to indicate the way forward ... A world of relationships.
is also hardly surprising that, it seems, many chapels dedicated to St. Christopher stood up in places where there was a mercurial, relating as San Cristobal was a Christianization of the god Mercury and supporting further the hypothesis in alchemical terms as if the mercury is "the bearer of gold," Christopher could be understood by analogy, as you want to translate, as "Christ bearer of gold" ... A world of relationships.
Enfin, leaving aside the fact that building a pile of stones in a ritual perspective, an ideal is expressed and generates a satisfaction of our emotions and higher feelings, which deep down I has surprised all this is that we had a possible proof of the existence of a collective subconscious, because we have acted on a similar patterns of behavior that have occurred in other times and in very different places in the world. ! Many relationships in the world!
Indeed, it was a necessity that came from within, an instinctive impulse. We had to do. And we did.
