{"id":72461,"date":"2022-04-23T09:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/traditions-in-sardiniathe-holy-week-in-cagliariorigins-and-meanings\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:50:30","slug":"traditions-in-sardiniathe-holy-week-in-cagliariorigins-and-meanings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/an-island-a-continent\/traditions-in-sardiniathe-holy-week-in-cagliariorigins-and-meanings\/","title":{"rendered":"TRADITIONS IN SARDINIA>THE HOLY WEEK IN CAGLIARI>ORIGINS AND MEANINGS&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=left>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/\/5974.html\">rites<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/5975.html\">protagonists<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;| <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/5976.html\">calendar of events<\/a>&nbsp; | origins and meanings | <a class=\"rent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/5978.html\">curiosities<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ORIGINS AND MEANINGS&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=left>Pathos and theatrics, which characterize the<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 vspace=3 src=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/opsmedia\/jpg\/5592.jpg\" align=right><br \/>commemorations of the death of Christ, clearly <br \/>show their Spanish origin. In fact, these traditions <br \/>date from the seventeenth century. <\/p>\n<p align=left>However, some features are from earlier times, such as the habit of exhibiting, in the churches, Is Nenniris, plates full of cotton wool which, on Ash Wednesday, are sown with wheat grains or legumes and left to grow in the dark. Their origins are to be found in the Phoenician myth of Adonis, that celebrated the death and rebirth of vegetation.<br \/>There also is&nbsp;Is Allichirongius de Pasca,&nbsp;the traditional spring cleaning of the houses in the days before Easter. Although there is clearly a hygienic purpose to<br \/>this tradition, its origins are probably to be found<br \/>in ancient purification rites.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- SOURCE 5977.html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rites&nbsp;&nbsp;| protagonists&nbsp;&nbsp;| calendar of events&nbsp; | origins and meanings | curiosities&nbsp; ORIGINS AND MEANINGS&nbsp;&nbsp; Pathos and theatrics, which characterize thecommemorations of the death of Christ, clearly show their Spanish origin. In fact, these traditions date from the seventeenth century. However, some features are from earlier times, such as the habit of exhibiting, in the [&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-72461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72461","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=72461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72461\/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=72461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}