Sanal Edamaruku será preso por dizer a verdade?

Este assunto e a referência a Galileu no texto e num dos comentários, faz-me pensar de novo sobre o (esmagador?) peso social e “cultural” das “múltiplas relíquias” que existem em todas as culturas…

Um avião com “peso a mais”, gasta mais combustível e voa dum modo mais “limitado”…

In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a tangible memorial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic#Cultural_relics
Relics are an important aspect of some forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Shamanism, and many other religions.

Um outro modo de encarar esta “necessidade humana” pode ser pensar sobre toda uma “família de fenómenos” com (algumas?) semelhanças ao acumular de relíquias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding e também http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acumula%C3%A7%C3%A3o_compulsiva

E quanto a esta frase:

….Mas agora meteu-se com a Igreja, e a inquisição ainda está viva por aqueles lados…

sugiro pensar talvez um pouco sobre uma situação (no mínimo) bastante irónica:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/23/galileo.fingers/index.html

http://boingboing.net/2009/11/23/galileos-fingers-fou.html

A jar containing two of Galileo’s missing fingers has been located. The jar containing the digits has been missing for more than a century. An individual purchased them at auction and delivered them to the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy.

The two fingers will join a third finger (image below) and a tooth that were removed from Galileo’s corpse in 1737.

The museum plans to display the fingers and tooth in March 2010, after it re-opens following a renovation, Galluzzi said.

The museum has had the third Galileo finger since 1927, so the digits will be reunited for the first time in centuries, he added.

Removing body parts from the corpse was an echo of a practice common with saints, whose digits, tongues and organs were revered by Catholics as relics with sacred powers.

Um artigo ligeiramente mais completo: http://boingboing.net/tag/galileo

Most Americans probably associate the collecting of relics with the Catholic Church, and particularly with the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages—a time when shards of saints’ bones and pieces of the true cross were big business, basically creating the West’s first tourism industry.*

But hoarding and gawking at pieces of dead heroes is a human hobby with far older roots and a much broader appeal.

It’s been done all over the world, certainly since antiquity if not before, and it’s not even exclusively associated with religion.

This is one of those weird urges that just seems to be somehow intrinsically linked to how humans do culture.

Which brings us to these fingers. They belong not to a Catholic saint, but to Galileo Galilei, father of astronomy and (at the time of his death) condemned Catholic heretic.

Because of the whole heresy thing, Galileo had to be buried in a back corner of the basilica where his family graves were.

But, a hundred years later, after his reputation had considerably improved, fans disinterred his body and reburied it in a much more prominent spot. And, while they were at it, they cut off three fingers and removed a tooth. And started displaying all four bits in reliquaries like this.

Previously, Pesco told you about how two of the fingers actually went missing for 100 years, before turning up in 2009 when an anonymous donor turned them over to the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.

Today, you can see all the relics of this secular saint on display there.

Thanks to Lauren Kinsman and Karen Ackroff who both submitted this exhibit separately. The photo I’ve used here, showing two of the fingers, was taken by Lauren Kinsman.

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