The mysterious petroglyphs of Pontevedra

There is no doubt that another of the attractions that can make a trip a fascinating adventure, is the mysteries of the past of those places through which we venture.

In this sense, Galicia is a fascinating world to know and savor, constituting, any of its four communities, a fascinating challenge to adventure and imagination, because they combine the basic ingredients for the enjoyment of the traveler, whatever Your motivation and intentionality.

The challenge that I propose today, is a small trip in time by a community, that of Pontevedra, in which, without belittling the rest of Galician communities and a good part of the Cantabrian cornice and the Spanish Levante, shines especially by the proliferation of an authentic, mysterious and hermetic legacy of the past: the petroglyphs.

Located, above all, in that Edenic portion known as the Morrazo Peninsula, these strange representations, engraved mainly on the surface of the great rocks, tell us about a world as fascinating as it is really unknown.

Not only are they located by the sea, which could give an idea of ​​the extra-peninsular origin of the unknown cultures that arrived at these shores leaving some messages, which until today have not been able to be deciphered.

They are also located in the interior, in the stones covered with ivy and moss that are inside formidable forests and in them the presence of universal archetypes stands out, which undoubtedly form part of the most hidden corners of that metaphorical Palace of the Memory, which CG Jung called it as the Collective Unconscious.

Possibly, one of the most repetitive and at the same time more enigmatic archetypes, is precisely the figure of the labyrinth, which as it is known, in addition to being a true metaphor of life and its circumstance, seemed to have an attraction for the great cultures of Antiquity and among them the Minoan civilization, famous, among other things, for being there the mythical labyrinth of King Minos, residence where the terrible beast dwelt known as the Minotaur.

Of the Galician labyrinths of the Morrazo Peninsula, perhaps the best known is the one located in the small coastal town of Mogor, a few meters from a beach frequented by vacationers, who in many cases their presence goes unnoticed.

Other interesting petroglyphs, would be those that are located and in large quantities, in Campo Lameiro, located a short distance from the general road that connects Orense with Pontevedra, a place that was subsequently Christianized with a church, which although very reformed in later times, It still retains the apse and its interesting representations.

Of the sensational petroglyphs of Campo Lameiro, stand out, especially, the great figures of deer, which induce to think, that perhaps, they were motivated by totemic and shamanic practices, propitiatory of the abundance of hunting that would ensure the survival of the nearby towns.

But to such an extent the subject is interesting, that one could speak of a common source, remote and totally unknown, whose language was the symbol, since this same type of representation is also located, in places, supposedly unconnected until relatively modern times, such as North and South America, which will be a real nightmare for historians: the possibility of having to rewrite History.

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