Tag: terracotta bust
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Ancient Ballerina
Dancing women figurines from the 3rd century, BC; from Siracusa’s Museo Archeologico regionale “Paolo Orsi.”
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Summer and the Divine Feminine
The end of August and beginning of September in Sicily is a period that marks many feasts in honor of various feminine saints, celebrations that are linked to ancient rites that expressed gratefulness to the earth for the bounty of the harvest. The ancient Greeks, who started to settle in Sicily in the 8th century…