Cosmologies

In Sardinia, cosmologies are not mere remnants of the past or museum artifacts. They are still alive, pulsing beneath the surface of everyday life—in the words passed down through generations, in enduring ritual gestures, and in landscapes that are never just backdrops but active presences. Far from folkloristic nostalgia, cosmology in Sardinia continues to offer a relational way of inhabiting the world: a worldview in which everything is interconnected—human, animal, plant, mineral, atmospheric—through a network of meanings, presences, and resonances.

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Even within a globalized and technologized context, knowledge systems, imaginaries, and practices persist—often in implicit forms—that express a relational ontology: the land, the wind, the waters, the sacred stones are not merely resources or scenery, but silent interlocutors, agents of memory and healing.

In the deep heart of Sardinia—and particularly within the long-lived communities of the Blue Zones—these cosmologies not only endure but continue to generate meaning, guidance, and existential coherence. They are horizons of significance that allow individuals to perceive themselves not as isolated fragments, but as part of a greater, breathing, and sentient order.

 

Within this framework, longevity itself may be reinterpreted as the result of a cosmic ecology of living: not merely a biological matter, but a form of deep attunement with an animated world.