#A Sicilian version of Hiraeth would be great right now

[bad-artist-non-historian]

Does anyone have any articles about indigenous Sicilian Mythology they can recommend? Because I’m tired of trying to find anything on Sicilian Myths and finding everything Greek. I want to know about my ancestors from before the Greeks.

I can’t escape the feeling that Sicilians have never really belonged to themselves. We were Greek and Phoenician and Roman and Carthaginian and Mycenaean and All other things, not necessarily in that order.

I don’t know what to say. I don’t mean to be a downer, but we never belonged to ourselves. Being under the control of the Italians is just the latest in a long run of conquerors and colonists. They call and treat us the way the English treat the Welsh.

Im just really ———— upset and I want to learn more about my heritage from before the Greeks, from before anyone took over us. If anyone has anything or can recommend anything, lemme know by reblogs.

#sicilian #sad #A Sicilian version of Hiraeth would be great right now #sicilian ancestry #sicilia #the Greeks #the Italians #not really a rant but sort of #Phoenician #Romans #Romans enslaved us and brought slaves to Sicily #the Carthaginians #The Sikeloi and Sicani and the Elymians traded with the Mycenaeans #and the Minoans #and the Phoenicians #and the Greeks #before the Greeks took over the Eastern part of the island #and founded cities like Syracuse #the oldest city is #Messina #(on the island) #and I think it was Phoenician #Or Greek #we weren’t given time to develop as a society #before the island was taken over #I feel really sad and sort of sick #I’m sick of Northern Italians saying things like #‘Sicilians are criminals’ ‘Sicilians are lazy’ ‘Sicilians are dirty’ and then Sicilians go and say that and believe in and internalize it #this feels awful and I can’t talk about this in English without it becoming about babbi Miricani identity politics #please help