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HYACINTH HYACINTHUS ORIENTALIS
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(taken from the book of Alfredo Cattabiani "Florario - myths, legends and symbols of plants and flowers". It is a book to buy read consult ! )
THE FLOWER LOVED BY APOLLO: HYACINTH
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-INTRODUCTION
-THE GIACINZIE
-THE HYACINTH FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT
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INTRODUCTION
Hyacinth, another of the handsome youths from whose blood grew a flower, Apollo was at this point incapricciato that left often the sanctuary of Delphi, to visit him on Eurota, in Laconia.
Of himself, unmindful, not refused to bring networks,
lead dogs on a leash, to accompany you
for the ledges of inaccessible mountains,
in that commonality fueling amorous flames.
So Ovid reported in the Metamorphoses, the Greek myth.
One day, when the sun was at its zenith, Apollo and Hyacinth, they stripped and glistening olive oil, competed in the discus.
Apollo hurled him in the air by flying over the clouds; and it was only after several minutes, the disk fell to the ground.
Hyacinth threw himself to grab it on the fly, but that falling it bounced so heavily on the hard ground to hit it to death.
The boy, bleeding, began to whiten while Apollo, no less pale, ran to support the body slumped.
The applied of the herbs in the hope that they could hold back the soul that wanted to escape, but there was no art or medicine that giovasse for that wound.
And, behold, from the blood of Hyacinth scattered on the ground to set up a flower more splendid in the purple of Tyre, and taking on "the form, which they
the lilies: but it is red, while the iris is silvery".
THE GIACINZIE
As he mentions Pausanias, for Amicle there was a feast of three days in honor of Hyacinth: the Giacinzie (Hyàkinthia), in fact, that happened in the archaic in the period in which the flower blossomed, and, subsequently, at the beginning of the summer, coinciding with the harvesting of cereals.
Moving the date would be due, according to Ileana Chirassi, the shift from agriculture precerealicola to that cereal:
hypothesis supported by the fact that on the day destined for mourning for the Hyacinth you had to eat bread or cooked food because the bread, like the cooking of food, belonged to an agricultural stage unknown at the time of the gods precerealicole including Hyacinth came in.
For a reason similar not supposed to sing the paean, which belonged to the sphere of Apollo, which had subordinated the worship of Hyacinth to her.
Another day dedicated to the blaze consumed bread for lunch the ritual was part of the celebrations with which not only hailed the resurrection of the héros in the hall, but it marked the passage of the Giacinzie in the cycle of the feasts of the year in cereals.
The character of the agrarian of the Giacinzie would be confirmed by a party night orgy: "This moment of triumph of the collective, marked by the free manifestation of collective joy coincided with the acme of the party in the meaning of propiziamento or rather of liberation of the forces productive of vegetation in accordance with a type of liturgical common to many of the rituals in agriculture, even of primitive peoples of the present".
On the nature of the rite agrarian, not few perplexities, if you consider that deep nucleus of the party were the death and the resurrection
Hyacinth.
In fact, his commemoration informing an initiation ritual that was at the same time, a rite of passage, of initiation of puberty, which was attended by males and females, and a ritual, soteriological, with the referring to the last passage from death to a life beyond life.
The appearance of the agrarian was a corollary, as was the case in other rites.
During the party, which also included the sacrifice of a goat, the animal in nietzsche's was used for musical contests, dances, choral songs,
figures of equestrian art.
And he built booths in which were applied were made of branches collected in the forest, which served as a bed for the participants.
THE HYACINTH FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT
In the middle Ages, hyacinth was almost forgotten in Europe, and was cultivated by the Arabs and then by the Turks, so much so that at the Istanbul festivals were celebrated on the occasion of its flowering, and the women adorned themselves of the flower as a symbol of love reciprocated.
In 1570, an austrian ambassador brought a few bulbs to Vienna, from where they spread in the Netherlands, giving rise to intensive cultivation
that have made them famous.
For this reason, the hyacinth was improperly assigned the botanical name of Hyacinthus orientalis.
Its essence was considered to be suited to those born under the sign of the Virgin.
It was said that it was acting particularly on sexuality, which was revived in the temperaments depressed.
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In the vocabulary of love of the nineteenth-century offer the flower to a woman meant to ask her Benevolence.
If you received the suitor with a hyacinth in her hair, her favour was granted.
But the hyacinth allude to the Mourning, as he recalled the tragic death of the lad; and, finally, it was considered a sign of Jealousy.
Data sheet
- Light
- Direct sun or half shade
- Recommended temperature
- Can go below 0 °C
- Watering
- Keep the ground slightly moist, but not wet or soaked with water. To make sure touch with your fingers the terrain.
- Flowering season
- March
- Season of Availability on the market - in Bloom with forced cultivation
- December January February March
- Name
- Vedi più sotto nei dettagli.
- Meaning
- Vedi più sotto nei dettagli.
- Origin
- Eastern mediterranean, Asia minor, the tropical regions of africa.
- Family
- Liliaceae