{"id":71509,"date":"2022-04-23T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-scene\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:48:08","slug":"carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-scene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/an-island-a-continent\/carnival-in-sardiniaorotellithe-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"CARNIVAL IN SARDINIA>OROTELLI>THE SCENE&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center><a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7390.html\">carnival in Orotelli<\/a>&nbsp; | <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7391.html\">the masks<\/a>&nbsp; | the scene&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7393.html\">origins and meanings<\/a>&nbsp; | <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7394.html\">points of interest<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/7395.html\">photo gallery<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>THE SCENE&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 vspace=3 src=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/opsmedia\/jpg\/4808.jpg\" align=right> <\/p>\n<p>In the rain and sleet that the sky of Barbagia lavishly unloads in February, sos thurpos move yoked in pairs like oxen. A rope is tied around their waists and they are lead by a third man (thurpu) who goads them and tries to keep them calm. <\/p>\n<p>The same happens in Ottana. a nearby village, where boes and merdules are the main protagonists and in Orotelli where sos thurpos, the main protagonist, rushes the crowds and creates a carnival atmosphere where everybody is involved.. <br \/>By miming the oxen, sos thurpos ask for something to drink. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the pairs of thurpos pull plows along the paved streets. They symbolize a propitiatory ritual of fertility which is similar to other carnivals in Barbagia. <br \/>Sometimes sos thurpus, in playing the role of farriers, stop to shoe a thurpu-ox. This is a very theatrical moment which represent the farmers work and their day life.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- SOURCE 7392.html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>carnival in Orotelli&nbsp; | the masks&nbsp; | the scene&nbsp;| origins and meanings&nbsp; | points of interest&nbsp;&nbsp;| photo gallery&nbsp;&nbsp; THE SCENE&nbsp; In the rain and sleet that the sky of Barbagia lavishly unloads in February, sos thurpos move yoked in pairs like oxen. A rope is tied around their waists and they are lead by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71509\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}