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# 78 APRIL 18 , 2016
this tradition? The ox is
the unpredictable force
of nature, that man tries
to measure and rule, in a
season in which nature
awakens in all its strength,
and people (especially
the farmers) switch from
the static of the winter to
the dynamic of the summer crops. The songs of
the Carrese, sung in honor
of St. Leo, are - on closer
inspection – very pagan in
their praising of Nature.
portrayed in all its powerful gentleness w