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Bethels and Cult Stones Sometimes, alongside the giants’ tombs, one finds singular iconless stones, of ogival form, essential in their outline but pregnant with significance. They are defined as “bethels” (from the Hebraic “place where the Lord sojourns”) due to their evident sacral destination as symbolic representation of the divinity and they depict the essential principles, male and female, which are the root of life in accordance to an ancient, naturalistic religion. Set in rows of three, they reiterate the divinities capable of recalling new life from death according to the agrarian conception in which the death of one element is the origin of life, equal to the seed which dies in order to germinate and give fruit. Other significant recurrent elements in the manifestations of ancient cults in Sardinia are lithic replicas of simple and complex nuraghi and stone columns, basins and thrones.
Icon-less bethels near the giant's tomb of Tamůli (Macomer)
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