Costume models by Regina Martino
Out of jealousy, Circee transformed Scylla, a beautiful, young woman, into a monster, a half woman and half pisciforme creature, whose tail held the heads of 6 fierce dogs eating anyone who dared pass by. Desperate Scylla hid in the Detroit of Sicily, pouncing on the wanderers from her den. Charybde so eager to eat Heracles’ beef was thrown into the sea as punishment by Zeus. Turned into a horrible monster, she lived in a cave underwater, beneath the rock of Scylla, engorging the tides three times a day, only to vomit them, but withholding the devoured humans.
Scylla: province of Calabre, with a hundred inhabitants, located in front of Messine, Charybde tempestuous flow, where two seas meet, forming the most dangerous spot of the Detroit.
These two poles, rock and gorge are, by chance or by the God’s will, one of the nerve centers of the low Mediterranean: Lo Stretto di Messina.
In this cross of earth and sea, the wanderer is compelled - from earth to earth or sea to sea, he pledges allegiance.
Throughout the centuries, Scylla and Charybde took on various shapes and meanings going from monsters to guardians, witnesses of the passage, keeping the memory of the fragments and the secrets of those, as we, must overcome the passage.
