RE: Creed's Corner: A Collection of the Morbid, Mysterious, and Mrandom
February 3, 2015 at 4:53 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2015 at 4:53 am by Lucanus.)
Now, we people from the South of Italy come off as weirdly religious at times.
This is a place where paganism never left. It just acquired three new deities and a bunch of funny hats.
This here is the "Fontanelle" cemetery of Naples:
People come here and "adopt" skulls, praying to them to have their wishes fulfilled. Every day, they go to their "capuzzella" (Neapolitan for "little head"), they clean it, they talk to it, maybe build it a nice little case...
In fact, you can see that some skulls are actually placed in cases with inscriptions like "Per grazia ricevuta" ("For having received a favour").
This is a place where paganism never left. It just acquired three new deities and a bunch of funny hats.
This here is the "Fontanelle" cemetery of Naples:
People come here and "adopt" skulls, praying to them to have their wishes fulfilled. Every day, they go to their "capuzzella" (Neapolitan for "little head"), they clean it, they talk to it, maybe build it a nice little case...
In fact, you can see that some skulls are actually placed in cases with inscriptions like "Per grazia ricevuta" ("For having received a favour").
"Every luxury has a deep price. Every indulgence, a cosmic cost. Each fiber of pleasure you experience causes equivalent pain somewhere else. This is the first law of emodynamics [sic]. Joy can be neither created nor destroyed. The balance of happiness is constant.
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
Fact: Every time you eat a bite of cake, someone gets horsewhipped.
Facter: Every time two people kiss, an orphanage collapses.
Factest: Every time a baby is born, an innocent animal is severely mocked for its physical appearance. Don't be a pleasure hog. Your every smile is a dagger. Happiness is murder.
Vote "yes" on Proposition 1321. Think of some kids. Some kids."
