On Holy Saturday, time stops in Sardinia, as the soccer ball in the air. In the valley of Ogliastra, in the towns of Gàiro, Ulassai, Osini, from the Descent from the Cross on Friday night to the Resurrection in Sunday morning, the churches are empty, the streets deserted, only an old woman passes along them with a pint of water brought from the public well. Heavy, drowsy sunlight trickles down the side of the valley, blending with the scent of the fresh green grass, rosemary and wild thyme, lizards and old men are basking in it. If the clouds did not fly up from the sea in the late afternoon to curtain off the sun like the purple shroud the stripped-down crucifixes of the churches, this day would never end. |
A fizzu meu so coro (The heart of my son / El corazón de mi hijo). Religious song from the Barbagia, arranged by the great Sardinian singer Maria Carta, 1984 / Canto religioso de Barbagia, arreglos de la gran cantante sarda Maria Carta, 1984
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