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The fire in the shop of mystery

According to the ancient philosophers is one of the four elements (Air, Earth and Water) which are the world. Of course the discovery of how to turn it on and check it has changed the history of mankind. Thanks to it, the darkness became less dark and even colder regions of the planet was colonized. The fire, however, is not only light and heat.
The fire, however, can destroy and kill, and as with all items, play with it can be dangerous. For these reasons, the fire is an element found in many traditions around the planet.

For the ancient Greeks was the giant, Prometheus stole fire from the gods as a gift to men. Was punished for this: he was chained to a mountain where every day, giant eagle came to eat her belly, which healed the night to be tortured again the next day.
Because a fire was difficult, he preferred to keep it running. And if you turn off the housewives could go in special temples where a sacred fire was kept on running.
In Rome were the six priestesses of the goddess Vesta, Vestal Virgins, to guard the sacred fire for thirty years of their lives. Enjoyed great honors, but woe to them if they left off if the flame or, worse yet, breaking the vow of chastity after being flogged, they were locked in a tomb to die of hunger.
Worldwide celtico esisteva una festa, che si chiamava Imbolc, con cui si celebrava l'allungamento della durata del giorno e la speranza nell'arrivo della primavera.
La tradizione prevedeva l’accensione di lumini e candele in onore della dea Brígit, detta anche Brighid o Brigantia, la “dea del triplice fuoco”, patrona dei fabbri, dei poeti e dei guaritori. Il suo nome deriva proprio dalla radice “breo” (fuoco): il fuoco della fucina, il fuoco dell’ispirazione e il fuoco che guarisce.
Era talmente sentito il suo culto che riuscì persino a diventare santa. Con l’avvento del cristianesimo si iniziò ad onorare infatti Santa Brigida, considerata la levatrice of Christ, a female character whose historical existence we know nothing, and are known to the many miracles, like turning water into beer when washed. Which is not surprising when one considers that Brigit was called the "Barley Mother".
The Irish monastery of Kildare, to the Protestant Reformation, a sacred fire was kept perpetually lit by nineteen nuns who kept watch in shifts a day.
When his turn came, the nineteenth nun uttered the words "Bridget protect your fire. This is your night. " The twentieth day he was believed to be the same Bridget miraculously to keep the fire burning.
Another interesting thing is that Imbolc was celebrated at the midpoint between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox, ie from sunset to dawn of January 31 February 3. By a coincidence in time which is not random, with our traditional feast of Candlemas, which falls in those days.
Candlemas, like many other traditional festivals, summed up in itself the most pre-Christian festivals, even coming from different traditions. In fact, the party initially was celebrated, according to the Latin tradition in mid-February, the month dedicated to Juno Februar purification. Only later was taken earlier this month to coincide with the traditional pagan festival celebrated by people of European Celtic tradition.

The photo is courtesy of Marta Rizzi