Mariagrazia Pelaia

Le Radici Europee Della Poetessa / The European Roots of the Woman-Poet
2008 Mariagrazia Pelaia
22 pp
Nonfiction/poem

Mariagrazia Pelaia is an Italian researcher combining astrology and matriarchal studies, a translator and an editor, as well as a poet.

From the author's afterward:

"This poem of mine starts describing the pagan's shoah. It was more than a 'holy war'...they were simply destroyed, either through physical slaughter, or through psycho-slaughter...

"The poem came to me in an irrational way. I did not plan it. It is a nearly literal transcription of a sort of meditation, half dream and half waking, not produced by me, but heard by me, very early in the morning, and I am not an early bird, but that morning I had to take a pen and write immediately what happened in my mind...

"It is in the connecting of 'Europa' and its myth to the Danube and the goddess Donu, that I happened to retrace the real roots of Europe: the roots of Neolithic Old Europe and the Goddess of Civilization..."