GIANTS' GRAVE

(tomba dei giganti)

Archaeologists classify this very strange monument, 10-20 meters long, as a collective megalithic grave of the Bronze Age (1500-1200 b.C.). Outline and shape of the grave should be, in accordance with the archaeologists, exactly the one of the bull skull (taurine protome). They infer the builders of those graves to wish honour by such a shape the Bull-God, the fertilizer of the Universe.

I have always doubted of such a interpretation because, if the great grave had to be really the shape of the bull skull, the little doorway for the corpses introduction had to stay at the basis of the "muzzle", where the "bovine" has the mouth. Instead, strangely enough, the little door stays exactly on the top of the "skull", between the two "horns" forming the esedra.

The correct intuition is released on examining a toponym of Gallura (Monti) named Lada Pilòsa. It seems to me lada to have a relationship with Lician lada 'woman', gr. Leda, Ληθώ 'Latona', Akkad. (w)alādu 'to give birth to'. But caution and concreteness remind me of Gallurian lada (a flat flabby bread), and of Sardian adj. lada 'flat, wide' < lat. lata. But in Sardinia lada is, besides, the vertical high flat stone located in the centre of the esedra of the Giant's Grave.

In the name of the very ancient stone (lada) there is no way out. The interpretation leads properly to a sense deriving from Akkad. alādu 'give birth to'. In fact, if we watch the outline and the shape of the Giant's Graves, they are the perfect silhouette of a woman laying down with opened legs in the act of giving birth. The shape is more realistic for the dark little doorway in the "perineum", at the graft of the "legs", that's a perfect idea of the vagina orifice which widen for the happy event.

Therefore in lada we discover the very ancient word for the current gigantínu or Giant's Grave. And we reveal that our ancestors didn't think to the "bull skull" in shaping their gigantínos but properly to Dea Mater giving birth, to Ishtar goddess. And their being a corpses room let us understand our ancestors' ideology, which put out a belief of metempsicòsis, a belief of soul transmigration and incarnation.

As far as the word pilòsa, it don't mean the "hairness", nor that the beet tops around the little door seem to be like a feminine pubescence. Sardian pilòsa is a corruption of Babyl. pelû (+ Sardian suff. -sa), which means 'to be(come) red' of face, hair. Therefore pilòsa is the very ancient adjective for current rùju,arrùbiu 'red' (see nuraghe Arrùbiu by Orròli), and the toponym Lada Pilosa is due to a red-orange lichen (Auricellum) that covers the siliceous rocks (like the Gallurian granites or the basalts of nuraghe Arrùbiu).