La Galice, pays de la Coupe
Galicia, The Land of the Cup

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a non-historicist view of the mythical Galician repertoire around the symbol of the “container”, whose traditional elementary mythemes (shell, stone vessel and cup) are connected to the legend of Saint James, through which they are still synthesized, condensed and reinforced. It is, therefore, an exercise in hermeneutical analysis, “the detection of a (mythical)level that is less explicit, less apparent and diffusedly unconscious; therefore, more tenacious” (Durand). The final aim of the study is to better understand the symbolic genealogy of the Galician imaginary and, moreover, the construction of our ipso-image.

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