“Angùli – Sardinia and the Cosmic Egg”: introduction

“Nous ne manquons pas de communication, au contraire nous en avons trop, nous manquons de CRÉATION”.
[Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari]

“L’île est ce que la mer entoure, et ce dont on fait le tour, elle est comme un œuf. Œuf de la mer, elle est ronde. L’île est le minimum nécessaire à ce recommencement, le matériel survivant de la première origine, LE NOYAU OU L’ŒUF IRRADIANT qui doit suffire à tout re-produire”.
[Gilles Deleuze]

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“Angùli – Sardinia and the Cosmic Egg” is a journey into images, symbols, epiphanies of Goddesses and Gods, inviting to re-discover the “fundamental convergence of science and myth, embryology and mythology, biological egg and psychic or cosmic egg”, with (and on)the Sardinia-island as place of re-creation, where to re-begin: “egg of the sea”. The Egg, with its “mouvements cinématiques”, identifies such “réalité intensive, non pas indifférenciée, mais où les choses, les organes, se distinguent uniquement par des gradients, des migrations, des zones de voisinage”.  What are “les zones de voisinage” and “les migrations” between Sardinian ritual bread, the Universal Mother Goddess (or better: the “Great Goddess”) as Bird-Goddess, the Mask, the “Corps sans Organes”, the pre-patriarcal communities and the current “society”?
The Sardinian word “Angùli” is extremely important; its most ancient roots – as far as we can tell – reveal its original meaning connected to the Cosmic Egg. “Anguli” is currently being used to indicate a variety of bread in Sardinia- the recipe may vary from town to town – which has (apparently) lost the direct link to ancient rituals: except for Siurgus Donigala (Cagliari). Indeed, in this village, we can find a ritual bread (carried in procession) called “su Pani de is Bagadius”, a monumental composition of 14 different shapes of bread, among which “Angùli” is the central element. The facets and history of this special bread  are found on the itinerary “Angùli – Sardinia and the Cosmic Egg”, starting with the installation, realised by “Sa Sartiglia” project,  entitled “Angùli”. The other works seeded during this re-creative cosmic voyage are  the installation “Abba” (by “Sa Sartiglia” project) composed of the triptychs “Abba” and “Equinòziu”; the series-non-series  of photographs called “Onto-Genesis” and the diptychs: “Abba: the Deluge” and “Imaginal Stage” by Cinzia Carrus.

Furthermore, the journey includes several detailed images of “su Pani de is Bagadius”, taken by Cinzia Carrus.: they’re a preview of a chapter (dedicated to this sacred bread) of  the documentary “Sardegna Tempio delle Acque” (“Sardinia Temple of the Waters”, coming soon!, here’s a preview) and of the full reportage taken at the Ritual Bread Museum in Borore (click here). Moreover, on the  “insights“ section of this site, you can find the themes of “Angùli – Sardinia and the Cosmic Egg”, as well as other articles, essays about countless explorations of the universe.

“The archaeologist and mythologist Marija Gimbutas and the sociologist Riane Eisler say that Ancient Europe, Anatolia and minoan Crete were “gylanic” communities. More precisely, Eisler proposed the word “gylania”, to indicate the pre-patriarchal community in which there was no dominion, neither feminine nor masculine. Gimbutas observes: ‘it is believed that the Old Europeans worshiped the full circle of birth, death and rebirth in the form of a great-goddess… the hybrid bird-and-snake goddess was the great-goddess of the life continuum”. (excerpt from the catalogue “Angùli”, part three)

The Deluge
“une société n’a peur que d’une chose : le déluge; elle n’a pas peur du vide, elle n’a pas peur de la pénurie, de la rareté. Sur elle, sur son corps social, quelque chose coule et on ne sait pas ce que c’est, quelque chose coule qui ne soit pas code, et même qui, par rapport à cette société, apparaît comme non codable. Quelque chose qui coulerait et qui entraînerait cette société a une espèce de deterritorialisation, qui ferait fondre la terre sur laquelle elle s’installe : alors ça, c’est le drame. On rencontre quelque chose qui s’écroule et on ne sait pas ce que c’est, ça ne répond à aucun code, ça fout le camp sous ces codes…” (Gilles Deleuze, des cours donnés à l’Université de Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Excerpt from the catalogue “Angùli”, part two)

“…. l’œuf est contemporain par excellence,

on l’emporte toujours avec soi comme son propre milieu d’expérimentation,

son milieu associé”.

(Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, from Capitalisme et Schizophrénie vol. 2: Mille Plateaux. Excerpt from the catalogue “Angùli”, part one)