Sardinia is a sacred place: too many giant tombs testify to this.
Tombs that have been shaped like an endometrium: the passage leading to the uterus, the ultimate place for the creation of life, new life.
And the sacred Sardinian saying (used today with vulgarity in the mouths of many fools): «CI PÓTZAST TORRÁI IN SU KUNNU» (May you return to the vulva, from where you came), is a wish for rebirth through the mother's womb.
The Sumerians already used the word KUN to designate the vulva; a synonym for kunnu is the term udda: it lies in the Sumerian UD Sun, God sun + A locative nominal case (non-directional: it indicates indeed a halt in a place). Therefore, we have UD-DA (this is the exact Sumerian form) indicating the final stop, the final rest, within the Sun.
Adhering to this etymological foundation, we can shed a beam of light on our very strange Campidanese expression: «intránci in sa udda», an optative curse, a wish directed with malice towards someone we want to send, um, to hell.
Despite the negative connotation attributed to the phrase, taken by itself the curse wouldn't be negative at all (how many of us boys do not dream of penetrating the vagina as often as possible?).
The phrase "Intrái in sa udda" is a rare survival illustrating the belief of pre-Christian Sardinians in metempsychosis, in the return to the One, to the One God, to the Omnipotent Spirit, from which they would then be reborn.
We cannot forget, in fact, that the concept of God as the Unitary Essence of the Universe had its epiphany precisely in the Sun, Pure Light, Pure Spirit that generated the World and Humanity and then reassembled it in Itself at the moment of the death of living beings.
Photo 1 Giant Tomb of Osono, Triei (Núoro)
Photo 2 Sacred Well of Santa Cristina, Paulilátino (Oristano)
