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The mythology Sarde is ancient (since the Lower Paleolithic) and particularly rich (ozieri period, Nuragic period). The stable settlement of Sardinia results from population movements of the Cardial Pottery culture that occurred around 6000 BC. AD from the Italian peninsula. But it continued, over the invasions, to give the Sardinian people.
One can find two types of supposed origins of the name of the island. Indeed, the first, which is more of the order of myth, comes from the term Ichnusa (Ιχνούσσα / Ichnoússa) or Sandàlion (Σανδάλιον / Sandálion) which derives from the root Greek which means footprint. This term refers to the shape of the island, "by the gross resemblance that the ancients found between its shape and that of the imprint of a human foot".
But a second origin would come from a Berber chief of North Africa (ancient Libya, west of the Nile) called "Sardus, alleged son of Hercules", who established a colony in the south of Sardinia. Sardus was venerated, so much so that "statues were erected on the island, with this inscription, Sardus Pater".
Sardinian mythology (texts)
Books on Roman mythology
Comics / Illustrated:
In French :
- History of the Etruscans
- Tales and Legends of the Birth of Rome
- Tales and Legends: Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Tales and legends: The heroes of ancient Rome
- Tales and Legends: The Birth of Rome
- A day in ancient Rome: In the footsteps of a Roman, in the capital of the most powerful of empires
- SPQR. History of ancient Rome
- Roman myths
- Romulus, Twin and King: Facts of a Legend
- Discovering Basque mythology
- Marco Polo
- Fiabe italiane – Italian tales, bilingual edition
- Tales and Legends: Legends of Corsica
- The tales of Provence
- Legends and tales of Provence
- Fantastic Beings in Provence: Fairies, Witches, Goblins
- Frederic Mistral Tales of Provence
- The most beautiful tales of the Pyrenees
- TALES AND LEGENDS OF OCCITANIA
- Tales, stories and legends from the countries of France
- Beliefs, myths and legends of the countries of France
- Tales and legends from the regions of France
- Tales and legends of Spain
- Legends and Tales of Portugal
- Tales from Portugal
- Tales from the Alhambra
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