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The Sisterhood of the skulls.
Excerpt from Morbid Anatomys blogspot (link below) on The Fontanelle, The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead.
“In this vast underground ossuary you will find, among the usual piles of bones, tiny stuctures–some with text engraved, others draped in rosaries and embellished with prayer cards–enshrining chosen skeletal bits. To the uninitiated, their meanings are unclear.One invaluable source in trying to decipher the meaning here was the work of author/scholar/photographer Paul Koudounaris of Empire of Death fame; he explains the cult thusly in his Fortean Times article “Sisterhood of the Skulls” (excerpted below; click here to read article in its entirety):
“…One of [Naples’] greatest enigmas was a strange cult, composed almost exclusively of elderly women who communed with the dead, lavishing their attention on, and even making offerings to, human skulls.
The cult was centred on a cemetery known as the Fontanelle… A curious cult dedicated to the remains began to evolve around the site, especially after 1872. In that year, Father Gaetano Barbati had large deposits of bones exhumed, and the skulls were cleaned and placed on racks or in troughs, where they took on the role of devotional items for this death-obsessed group. There was no formal organisation to this cult, but it rapidly grew popular with older women, especially widows or those with little or no family. They claimed to receive messages from the deceased in their dreams, and would then “adopt” whichever skull they believed had belonged to the spirit that had contacted them, becoming in effect a kind of caretaker of not just the remains but also the soul of the dead person. They would clean and care for their skulls, even constructing engraved marble shrines for them. These boxes might enclose a single skull, or multiples if the same person adopted more than one. “ ”
Read the whole thing here: bit.ly/WAJDsO
fontanelle007.jpgvon Morbid Anatomy
Über Flickr:
Cimitero delle Fontanelle and “The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead” or “The Neapolitan Skull Cult” of Naples, Italy;
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Baby we could leave right now
I hear voices in my head they telling me to call it quits
I'ma die slow sweetie I ain’t never had a meanin just another fuckin’ junkie drain my blood but don’t be greedy leave some liquid for the centipedes they eat away my memory
I can still feel your touch, I still do those same drugs.
Everyone hates me
⚔The Devil’s Roar
a land left unexplored
The Devil’s Roar
the omen they ignored
And those who land
upon her shore
Best write to those
who they adore
Just ask the souls
who came before
Those poor forgotten
sailors⚔
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