Every Year, Men Turn Into Monsters for This Ancient Pagan Ritual | Short Film Showcase
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- Each year in Sardinia, Italy, men from the small village of Mamoiada don grotesque wooden masks and vests of black sheepskin. Stomping and grunting through the streets, they are weighed down by huge cowbells hung from their backs to scare away evil spirits. These hideous beasts are known as Mamuthones and they are part of an ancient tradition that has existed for thousands of years. Little is known about the origins of this pagan ritual, and its legacy continues to be shrouded in secrecy by the villagers. In this film from Andrea Pecora, get a rare look at the Mamuthones as they make their way through the village to usher in the spring.
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I am Sardinian living in America , missing my earth and this makes my hair stand up on the other side of the planet ! When you lived in Sardinia, there is no other place that will ever be as beautiful as you remember this sacred earth to be !
Bless your soul darling. Mother Sardinia Loves You.
I remember being there in the Mountains at night drunk from wine seeing the night sky full of stars.
Truly beautiful
Pagans of Italy....you are our brothers and sisters now. - Andy Fernandez, Puerto Rican Shaman
My brother in law is Sardinian, and Sardinia is the most beautiful country I've ever seen. This video captures it well.
Sardinia = Italy
it’s not a country 😂🤡
@@PAPICASA It seems like another planet, actually. Sardegna.
this looks like it would be a movie/game trailer
samiah wright yep, would make a great game trailer or a game intro
For real
Instead it's ancient pagan rituals!
You gave me the idea for a new title. Thanks from central Sardinia.
A recurring though I have is that we should made a videogame based on Italian folklore or one set in Italians cities: just imagine a Fallout-like set in Rome or a Dying Light set in Genoa.
Proud of being Barbagian
Deu seu campidanesu, ma d'ogni tanti seu unu pagu fengiosu de su kentru de s'isula. Pottais unu spiritu prus puru e giuntu cun sa nostra traditzioni sarda. Nosattrus in Casteddu and s'attras biddas manna femmu unu pagu scuncordau cun issa.
This is beautiful. I have sardinian origins, but living in Germany, but we visit every year and hope we can travel again soon. Sardinia is the most beautiful place I know, I highly recommend the inside of the isle, the culture is very special and unique and has a lot to offer.
Yes it is , I have been there many times. My father was born there . It’s a little out of the way traveling from the USA but it is worth it once you get there.
I saw this film years ago, and I come back to it again and again because it is so striking, so full of power and mystery. I would love to go to Sardinia some day and see this ritual in person. If it's this powerful in a film, what must it be like to experience firsthand?
Same here for years, It's captivating and fascinating!
Colouring the skin with either clay, ochre or charcoal/ash - making loud noises/to caste away of "x" and dressing up to represent something along with the performance near for example equinox/solstice have been around across the globe, it's cool archaic stuff and interesting to see how much it evolved over the millennium in different ways.
Mamuthones .... I love my Sardinia
I'm so impressed ! This is amazing, I wanna see more
That was a very good edit for this video. Good job!
We're happy that you enjoyed Mr. Ramirez 💫
I always loved the costume. Glad to see a short about it. Thank you for sharing!
Isn't it an interesting custom? Thanks for watching!
Really a lot of effort was put into making this and I appreciate it.
We appreciate you watching!
Thanks!
The trailer is outstanding!
come italiano, supporto l'indipendenza sarda. La Sardegna e' chiaramente una nazione sua.
Suuuper cool cinematic trailer. More of this, NatGeo!
Thanks so much for watching!
This is awesome! 😮
Damn, this trailer looks beautiful.
Andrea Pecora did a wonderful job!
Bellissimo video, fantastici mamuthones!!!
During college, we used to call that 'game day'.
New Message dammit, new messege again
Bellissimo !
amazing
Grandioso. Rito di purificazione collettiva (come i Lupercali a Roma) perché sangue e terra sono sacri.
This is kind like a spanish tradition called Zanpantzar, the bells are suppose to scare spirits away and they travel around the north of Spain on this time of the year. It gimme chills when i was a kid and they still creep me out a little
The chinese dragon dance is supposed to scare off evil spirits with firecrackers and loud noises.
Yes .. Also the dialect of Sardinia become a part from Spanish .. it was a old little colony of Spain before ..
Actually a researcher has just made a book about the conexion of basque lenguage and Sardinian toponymy. Its identical in some cases. As you said this festival is identical too to the basque tradition "zanpanzar". As a basque speaker its amazing to see that our misterios culture could be related to Sardinian first mens
@Talos in Sardinia there is a dialect of Sardinian language, in west coast, and they speak "catalan" ( yes, like barcellona catalan, but more close to balearic catalan).
and for second, no, sardinian language is MORE ancient than spanish, because it borned before Latin.
Many influence of Spanish grow up the language with new words from Spain ok, but Sardinian is an ancient language.
Cheer!
Omg that’s so cool yet creepy, thanks 4 sharing that. I’ll have to research it.
Dope
Amazing cinematography, where and how can i watch the rest of it? Pls
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This is what goes on in my dreams
Bela Knight me too buddy
beautiful
Need more cowbells.
The fact that the director' s surname is "pecora" wich means sheep in italian is the candy on top honestly.
Ahhaha
It's a weird coincidence cause it's not even a Sardinian surname or a common one that I know. "Angioni", which means "Lamb", is very common, for example
Is this the tribe where Slipknot come from?
Good one 😂 ! Thanks for watching.
Tell me the truth NatGeo coz I need to learn how to rock. Haha. Just kidding. Thanks NatGeo for being informative. :)
Slipknot are from Ottana. Portal are from Mamoiada, and Mgla from Bitti and Orotelli😂😂😂
Edit: forgot to add Mudvayne and Mushroomhead, respectively from Ovodda and Gavoi.
where can i watch the whole thing
That's the whole thing...
Come to Sardinia
Mamoiada, Sardinia, Italy
Is there a way to find the music featured in this? It’s phenomenal.
I feel the same, its so powerful
Cool! :D
Isn't it? So fascinating!
Nope!
Where can we watch the whole filme?
jojo i reject my humanity
Its not italian culture, not language, that’s sardinian
Yare yare daze
@@riccardoraimondi4468 o so your approaching me
Menacing.
The language is Beautiful! The rhytm and pronounce is rather spanish. All in all mix of spanish and italian.
The momuthones are deeply ancient, evil and spooky. Who were they? I think the blacks represent a forceful and negative elements like war, epidemy, draugth and volcano eruption. And the whites are kind forces, that triumf in the end.
WOW.
Good bgm
yo this is what I would use to freak out my kid
and to make him behave LOL
in portugal we have carnival celebrations with celtic roots in the villages of Podence and Lazarim which resemble this, just maybe not as creepy though :S
Are those masks wooden? Some of those look pretty awesome!
Yes they Are
They are, carved out from a pear tree, usually.
I love rituals and traditions who has not been destroyed by the christianity
Sadly that happened to the majority of Italian folklore. As an example they transformed the Befana (a good witch type of character, maybe an ancient winter goddess) in a old lady searching Jesus...
Interesting fact: Sardinia has the lowest church attendance in Italy, around 20% only
In Bulgaria we have this too. We call the men who dress like that Kukeri.
this is me when i get killed by a camper.
Fucking well made. Props to the director
They should be careful. Even Jason Blood doesn’t turn into Etrigan without caution and he’s a professional
Mamoiada. Not Momoiada.
I'm really curious about ancient rituals they looks amazing when you see them with your own eyes
We're glad that we were able to introduce you to these customs! Thanks for watching.
*2nd and first one to like this video.*
Sardinia is not Italy
La mia terra.
Can someone tell me if there’s more to this please?
One word👉 (CANAANITES) !!!😳
in pradena españa, the same celebration is celebrated the night of san andres, by the transhumance of the shepherds
Where can I get that suit
Karetus?
I understand everything, portuguese speaking.... What language is It?
Sardinian language
So sick.
My trypophobia is tingling
is this real?
Radegast facts
it is! and the language the narrator is speaking is a local dialect, very similar to latin (and kind of a language on its own)!
Yes .. it’s a local tradition on Sardinia in Italy ..
Yes, it is in Sardinia, the biggest island of Italy
Yuri Garbisa Actually Sicily is bigger but nevermind
I’m getting Game of Thrones vibes from this.
Christian Dimayuga Me the same. It woulda been nice if it's used as a performed ritual in worshipping the old gods by northerners
when u are Italian but u can't understand a single word of it
new Dark Souls looks cool
Not pagan , from a different religion ,older religion
Probably made in Unreal Engine 5
Non este a bi a fora este abi intro m
ok then
Nice to see something authentic and not Hippy...
Lembra o Pierrô de Salvador !
Ive rejected my humanity JoJo!
JOJO I REJECT MY HUMANITY
It'd be best Halloween parade
Those are кукери?
The cultural origin is similar but they are not the same
They are not monsters, they are dressed up as the ancient shaman grandmothers.
Non sono mostri, sono vestiti come le antiche nonne sciamane.
Они не монстры, они одеты как древние шаманские бабушки.
They are monsters, they represent spirits of evil, chained by another positive mask, which is not portrayed in the video.
This is a old Roman pagan ritual for rich crops I'm thinking.
No
Also know as Halloween!
Big Gus no, it's different
I thought this was during carnival
oh stfu
Neet
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Ezar YT this comment is first not the other one
Nice video, altough it makes it look like some strange satanic ritual
Satanism is not what catholics want you to believe since centuries. And, to them, this could be seen as satanic only because it's different.
First
Ezar YT no you arent youre second
I'm not sure if it is Samhain or Yule.
It's a Sardinian tradition
From italy
Considering there are some dolmens and menhirs in Sardinia, I'd say that's closer to the Celtic tradition of Samhain. We don't have any connection with Germanic history (well, with the Vandals a bit, but they were already Christians when they came)
Woah...I've only heard the word pagan off of the show "Reign"
Devil
This event is known as halloween.
the matrix my exact thoughts when I read the title
No actually is was meant to battle the spirits of snow and ice, and start the spring. Our ancient ancestors (long before Paganism was a thing) would ritualistically track and usher in the Seasons. When the seasons did not meet predictions, it was assumed they must fight the spirits for control of the seasons. This belief system is at minimum 12000 years old. There is a band of time we cannot even begin to rationalize of hundreds of thousands of years prior to this point were it could have actually originated.
Mainstream archeologists would rather you just assume all human history started with the Clovis Event, rather than Ended with it, to be reborn as something new. But that is because they were raised with poor educational standards by idiots, and most of them have a degenerative brain disease caused by life long lead exposure. As soon as they all die off a new modern age of awakening can begin.
cool story
While halloween also originated from a pagan ritual, I think this one is another, unrelated pagan ritual.
Rituals where people put masks and costumes on can be found all around the world, in many different cultures; these rituals do not necessarily have the same origin or the same meaning as halloween.
Zenn Exile
So, not sure what you're talking about, "mainstream archeologists" work on non-christian and pre-christian artefacts and digging sites all the time.
And I'm not sure where you've found archeologists who would start history in 496(Clovis' conversion), neglecting all Roman and Greek history (among others), unless you're speaking of your christian history teacher in middle school, but I don't think history teachers count as archeologists (and much less as experts).
Also, the modern definition of paganism is just a regroupment of religion using heavily spirits in their belief systems, nothing else; nobody would define themselves as just "pagans", like nobody would say their religion is just "monotheist".
are you calling me a monster?
Dear God who art in heaven hallow be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, in Jesus Christ's name we pray, amen.
Not pagan
And then they became a Vampire
Sicilians are unique in many way. They are different
This is Sardinia, not Sicily.
Does anybody know what the heck that was supposed to be?
Everyone, please watch my little nature videos. There is no talking in them. Shhh!