Archivio Remo Salvadori

"Iron, copper, and gold are found in the meteorites that fall to Earth rich in celestial sanctity. The Maya of the Yucatan, the Incas of Peru and the Aztecs of Mexico and Central America learned to work meteoritic metals even before the iron and other ores of the earth. They associated the words 'celestial lightning' and 'star' with them and used them to forge ritual and religious symbols. In a well-known book, Mircea Eliade recounts how the presence of the metals in the earth was perceived in the cosmogonies of some preadamitic cults. The Earth-Mother had been fertilized by stones of light that came from the sky and had taken them into her womb so that the cosmic rhythm of death and rebirth could circulate on the surface of the world. Thus the earth’s bowels were sacred because they had been sexualized by thunderbolts coming from on high."