Fanatisme destructor / Medieval fanatics
Just sobre la porta de l'església romànica de St. Joan d'Isil hi ha aquests relleus que representen Adam i Eva. A la esquerra Eva sorgeix d'una costella d'Adam, i a la dreta tots dos. Però algun zelós guardià del puritanisme masacrà les "parts pudentes".
Digeu-me neurotic, però hi ha un inquietant nexe d'unió entre la destrucció fanatica aquí i la milions de vegades més gran a la monstruosa guerra de Siria. Aquesta església és St. Joan d'Isil. I l'actual "Estat Islamic" o Daesh, es coneixia inicialment com Islamic State in Irak and the Levant (ISIL). Buf.
www.monestirs.cat/monst/pasob/ps02joan.htm
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Joan_d'Isil
www.ecomuseu.com/cat/r_Isil.asp
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falles_d'Isil
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A medieval relief of Adam & Eve in the outside walls of St. Joan d'Isil church. The destruction of their private parts was done centuries ago, by some puritan fanatic, probably a priest.
There's a kind of perverse link with a much more diabolic wave of destruction and death, the actual Daesh. This church is St. Joan d'Isil, and the original english name of the Islamic State was Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Buf!
The XII Century romanesque church of St. Joan d'Isil is rather unique. This quite big church has it's three apses built right in the fierce mountain Noguera Pallaresa river. I don't know of any other romanesque (or any other) church built almost inside a river, and specially such a savage river. It's known that several times the apses had been rebuilt.
Now the church still serves as part of Isil village cementery.
Fanatisme destructor / Medieval fanatics
Just sobre la porta de l'església romànica de St. Joan d'Isil hi ha aquests relleus que representen Adam i Eva. A la esquerra Eva sorgeix d'una costella d'Adam, i a la dreta tots dos. Però algun zelós guardià del puritanisme masacrà les "parts pudentes".
Digeu-me neurotic, però hi ha un inquietant nexe d'unió entre la destrucció fanatica aquí i la milions de vegades més gran a la monstruosa guerra de Siria. Aquesta església és St. Joan d'Isil. I l'actual "Estat Islamic" o Daesh, es coneixia inicialment com Islamic State in Irak and the Levant (ISIL). Buf.
www.monestirs.cat/monst/pasob/ps02joan.htm
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant_Joan_d'Isil
www.ecomuseu.com/cat/r_Isil.asp
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falles_d'Isil
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A medieval relief of Adam & Eve in the outside walls of St. Joan d'Isil church. The destruction of their private parts was done centuries ago, by some puritan fanatic, probably a priest.
There's a kind of perverse link with a much more diabolic wave of destruction and death, the actual Daesh. This church is St. Joan d'Isil, and the original english name of the Islamic State was Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Buf!
The XII Century romanesque church of St. Joan d'Isil is rather unique. This quite big church has it's three apses built right in the fierce mountain Noguera Pallaresa river. I don't know of any other romanesque (or any other) church built almost inside a river, and specially such a savage river. It's known that several times the apses had been rebuilt.
Now the church still serves as part of Isil village cementery.