The presence of two sacred wells located about 150 meters apart, situated in San Basilio, Bau Crabas (ford of the goats), suggests the existence, during the Nuragic period, of a vast sacred area primarily dedicated to the worship of water. The attached photos (respectively by Bibi Pinna, Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna, Alessandro Pilia, Lucia Corda, and Lorenzo Muntoni) also refer to a passage from the book “La Religione Primitiva in Sardegna” where the author, Raffaele Pettazzoni (1883-1959), the foremost historian of religions, wrote about the sacred wells that “The staircase was a means of communication not ideal, not between the underworld and the upper world, but real, necessary for the needs of a rite that had to take place, so to speak, around these two poles: the altar at the top of the staircase, and the reservoir at the bottom.”
