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Anteo

esto ritualRytelling para descolonizar narrativas antiguas.

El mito del combate de lucha entre el gigante Anteus (Ante) y el héroe griego Heracles lo encontramos en el punto de encuentro de las culturas amazigh y helénica, allá por la época de la expansión griega en África Occidental en el siglo V a.C. Llegó a representar la colonización helénica de "Libia"/Norte de África tanto en la mitología griega como en la amazigh.

 

Heracles le quita el poder a Ante separándolo del suelo, sabiendo que la madre de Ante, Gaia, es la fuente de su potente fuerza vital. Encontramos en la base de todo esfuerzo colonial un proceso de separación intencional de las personas de la tierra, de su fuente de pertenencia y poder.

   

Esta instalación y performance ritual para descolonizar narrativas antiguas busca recodificar el mito, reconectando nuevamente al gigante con una energía maternal subterránea, magnética y serpentina. A medida que abrimos nuestras mentes a las topografías ocultas del círculo de piedras de M'zora, podemos imaginar el ser de Ante como la expresión superficial de la conciencia lítica subterránea de la tierra. Contamos su historia al revés, entretejiendo otros personajes míticos de la zona que ayudan a bajar al gigante para tocar el cuerpo de su madre.

 

Esta obra se realiza en conjunto con el círculo de piedras de M'zora, y se cuenta a todo aquel que quiera escuchar la historia.Contáctame para reservar un relato.

                                   

A story is told in the Sufi tradition about Musa, the prophet Moses, who was told by God "At the confluence of two seas there is a servant from among my servants who is more learned than you. He can be found by those who seek him, at the crack between two worlds, between two bodies of water, between the now and the future. To find him, you must take a fish with you on your journey and you will find him in the place where you will lose the fish.” Moses set out on a journey to the west and when he reached the stretch of water between Africa and Europe he came to a big rock where El Khader was sitting at the water’s edge.

El Khader is revered by both Hindus and Muslims. He dwells in the place where two oceans confluence, where two planes of existence meet. As a result, he remains elusive to many but reveals himself to seekers or those who, in their humble efforts, chance upon a bend in the road where he unexpectedly appears. Known as the green man,  he embodies a state of viriditas, the innate life force propelling nature. 

El Khader and the Green Fuse is a performative lecture/story about the tutelary spirit Khader as well as the Strait of Gibraltar as I have encountered them both through my geomantic work over the past decade.  After the sharing of the story I open a space to contemplate the work with images received in shamanic and geomantic work as a form of expression of the subtle layers of the land. We look together at the story’s encoded metaphors through the lens of eco-mythology to explore ways of thinking and being in the world.

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