03.11.2025, #Italy #Puglia #IpogeoDiTorrePinta #TorrePinta #Ipogeo #hypogeum #tomb #archaeology #HistoricSite #heritage [4]
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits - the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
Fantastic neolithic underground burial complex. In use for over 1000 years, and excavated with bone and horn tools, the complex once housed 7000 bodies. For conservation reasons, visitor numbers are limited and there is no photography: the photos in my Flickr album were found on the web and uploaded for illustrative purposes.
#hypogeum #NeolithicBurialSite #excavation #malta #burial #tomb #temple #HalSaflieni
You can do the #Ritual of the House of Sorrows any time the #Hypogeum is open. Our family does ours either on Halloween or around the calendar New Year. Sharing in case you’re interested! https://link.medium.com/MouFWaHQ0vb
“On Winter #Solstice, the shortest day of the year, the #Hypogeum reopens. Anthuor and his Eight Magicians ride forth from the bright chthonic realms, carrying hazelwood staves covered in vines and thorns. Every other day, one of the Magicians binds one of the Monsters with the vines, and lashes it with the thorns, returning it into the Hypogeum for another year.”
https://medium.com/quatrian-folkways/the-festival-of-the-hypogeum-6ff5a861fae7