Lakota Sioux And Ancient Sardinians: Affinities Between Two Ancestral Cultures 0 Commentaires

by Daniela Toti

In 2012, in Sardinia, an extraordinary meeting took place: four Lakota Sioux shamans, two women and two men, came from America to meet with four elders from central Sardinia. Two seemingly distant worlds - the Native people of the Great Plains of North America and the heirs of the Nuragic civilization - discovered themselves close as brothers.

The Lakota Sioux are a Native American people belonging to the Great Sioux Nation. Their historical origins as a recognizable community date back to around the 13th–14th centuries, but what makes their culture truly ancestral is the oral tradition, deeply spiritual and rooted in a primordial time “without beginning or end.” This heritage, passed down from generation to generation through ancient oral traditions, makes them one of the best known and most respected Native peoples of North America.

We know that the ancient Sardinians of the Nuragic Civilization lived on the island between the 18th and the 9th century B.C. To them we owe the famous nuraghi, the giants’ tombs, and the sacred wells. Nuragic society was communal and deeply connected to the cosmos: their monuments were often aligned with solstices and lunar cycles, creating a bond between architecture, agriculture, and spirituality. At the heart of this culture was the Mother Goddess, symbol of fertility and life, in harmony with the forces of nature.

Three common roots between the Lakota Sioux and the Ancient Sardinians:

1. The Sky - For the Lakota Sioux, the stars are ancestors, signs, and guides. The Milky Way is the road of spirits, and cosmology is a sacred language that inspires creativity.
   For the ancient Sardinians, the astronomical orientation of nuraghi, giants’ tombs, and sacred wells was linked to solstices, lunar cycles, and the agricultural calendar. The common root is the sky as sacred calendar and memory of the people.

2. The Voice - The Lakota Sioux, known as the Singing Nation, express prayer through song: the sacred word that vibrates and creates a connection with the cosmos. In Sardinia, the brebus (ritual formulas for healing and protection) and the Tenors Singers (collective voice, ancestral vibration) serve the same function: to invoke, to protect, to bind the visible and the invisible. The common root is sound, word and song, as a bridge between the human and the spiritual.

3. The Body - Among the Lakota Sioux, the Sun Dance is a ceremonial rite in which body, rhythm, and symbol merge into collective prayer. In Sardinia, Masks and their spectacular folklore accompany ritual dances that express the strength of the community and its relationship with natural forces. The common root is the collective body as a sacred instrument, able to mediate between humans and spirit.

The Sardinian elders began by speaking of the sacredness of water, of woman as Mother Goddess, and of man as hero, a bridge between heaven and earth. 

The Lakota, deeply impressed by such wisdom, asked for more time before speaking. One of them said: “We would never have imagined that two people, separated by the ocean and two distant continents, could be so close in soul and spirit.”

From that meeting arose a universal message: “If we all rediscovered our roots, peace would reign in the communion of souls. No war would ever make sense.”

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“Because almost nothing like war, and nothing like an unjust war, shatters the dignity of man” (Oriana Fallaci)