What is the "natural state" of man? What is its relation to sacredness? Why did the first humans hide the bones of their dead deep within caves? Are caves sacred places that the Greeks later adorned with their temples?
This book was born from an intuition: that the lost link between modern man and nature lies somewhere in early humanity. The first humans who lived by hunting and gathering fruits saw sacredness in nature. When man began to read the world anew through reason in Ancient Greece, the first root of Western civilization, this perception of the world did not fade away.
It transformed, becoming part of the human era that we here call the Greek cosmological system. Oedipus is a tragic hero, a sacred man: he bears the burden of the sin of incest, the most primordial sacred prohibition. Dionysus is multifaceted and cunning like a primitive god, the masked demon of the city.
He leads the procession of initiates to the temple of Mother Earth, Demeter, where the Maiden, Persephone, will emerge from the cave of Hades. Dionysus is the child standing between the Mother and the Maiden, like an image of all humanity. Humanity that returns to its childhood: the Demeterian view of the world.
