Among the mythological figures of ancestral Sardinia that of the Bull, an indisputable expression of muscular power and virility, was among the most widespread and the taurine protome often recurs among the manifestations considered divine in sacred sites. Like the legendary Cretan Minotaur, also some legends Sardinians tell of a sort of totemic animal that lived in the depths of caves or in the most hidden passages of the abyss, and often its spirit was embodied in people guilty of some serious crime unpunished by human justice. the unconfessed offender often transformed himself into a gigantic bull with demonic features and his mournful lament was herald of doom and certain death. profound civic and religious sense of respect, could free the guilty person from this atrocious torture. Rarely, in cases of the most impious sins, the divine torture could also be eternal. [Adsense] In the Sardinian dialectal variants the brave hero takes on the characteristics of Su Traigolzu, an ancient mask of shamanic origin that drags the skins of the monster ("Traere Corzos "means to drag the skins) and the chains that subjugated it, while the ox took the name of Boe Cultu, Boe Biancu, Erchitu or Boe Muliache. In the case of Cuglieri it took the name of Boe Ferrainu. It is said that centuries and centuries ago, when the city of Cornus still looked out laughing from the acropolis of Corchinas to the sea mirror below, one of the main local landowners embarked on an ecclesiastical career and even became a Cardinal, but the role he held was not enough to stifle the instinct of greed and greed he was accustomed to because of the comforts and luxuries he was accustomed to in his life as a rich landowner. And so he had a family arrested and executed unjustly accused of having stolen grain from them and the members in vain begged for pardon. Revenge fell relentlessly on the cardinal: the cap was transformed into a huge horned head and the magna cape into a shaggy tawny fleece and the 'wicked subject became a huge "Boe Ruggiu" who began to wander the countryside destroying everything. A provident company of friends, however, managed to chain the beast, renamed "Su Boe Ferrainu" or "Boe Ferrau", and it is said that he was imprisoned in an enormous labyrinth hidden under the veil of the water under the pond of Santa Giusta. Where even today some dark rumblings ensure the continuation of the eternal punishment by the evil cardinal.
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