<<No spring emerges from the rocks of the “Giara” di Serri. The extremely hard basalt of the lava flow, which spread horizontally like an immense carpet over the underlying tertiary marls, has no springs, nor does it allow rainwater to filter through, which collects and remains for days and days in the small and large natural basins of the impermeable surface. These water deposits, where today still the herds are watered by the shepherds, must have been used more widely in ancient times. In fact, any water, whether it bubbled from the earth or fell from the sky, was providential for the primitive Sardinian. Rainwater in winter, Solinus further states, is preserved for the shortage of summer, collecting it in special reservoirs, where springs are lacking. And just as it served the same practical uses and provided for the same needs, so too did certain waters of celestial origin and other waters emerging from the bowels of the earth have the same virtues…>>
Raffaele Pettazzoni: “la Religione Primitiva in Sardegna” (1912), Reissue edited by Carlo Delfino – 1993.
In the images, the wells and sacred springs of: “S.Vittoria” di Serri (Valentino Selis and Cinzia Olias); “Is Pirois” di Villaputzu (Andrea Mura-Nuragando Sardegna); “Funtana Crobetta” di Silius (Sergio Melis); “Milis” di Golfo Aranci (Giovanni Sotgiu); “Sa Testa” di Olbia (Andrea Vitussi).
