Svegliati orsù, Asclepio Paieo, signore di tutti gli uomini, dolce fiore di Apollo e della sublime Coronide, cancella dalle palpebre il tuo sonno ed ascolta le preghiere di tali mortali che spesso e mai vanamente cercano d'ingraziarsi il tuo potere, com'anche quello della benigna Igea. Orsù dolce Asclepio, svegliati e ascolta il tuo inno. Che tu sia salutato come un salvatore. Ode ad Asclepio Sator recitata nei santuari dedicati al suo culto Abstract The anthropological study developed by

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... o De Martino in The land of remorse comes to an essentially sociological interpretation of the phenomenon of Salento Tarantism neglecting its most archaic origins. Rossetti proposes a new hypothesis of investigation by finding an implicit thesis but not outlined in the De Martino's researches and, perhaps, unconsciously neglected. Tarantism, as a form of choral / musical exorcism, would be rooted in the early history of Magna Graecia, as related to pre-Hippocratic medical practices related to the cult of Asclepius. It would have occured, therefore, a process of merging and overlapping between the two religions as evidenced by some similarities between them, such as the common reference to some animal-symbols (snake, scorpion, spider), the iconographic overlap between Asclepius and St. Paul, the mirror image organization of sacred places, the importance of the rite of "sleep therapy" and the bite / punishment as a sign of the over-human. L'enquête anthropologique développée par Ernesto De Martino dans son livre La terra del rimorso aboutit à une interprétation essentiellement sociologique du phénomène du tarantisme salentin dont elle néglige les origines les plus archaïques. Rossetti propose une nouvelle hypothèse en trouvant une thèse implicite bien que non esquissée-et, peut-être, inconsciemment négligée-dans les recherches de De Martino. Le tarantisme comme forme d'exorcisme choral/musical est enraciné dans l'histoire des débuts de la Magna Grecia, en tant que lié aux pratiques médicales pré-hippocratiques liées au culte d'Asclépios. Par conséquent aurait eu lieu un processus de fusion et de chevauchement entre les deux religions comme en témoignent certaines similitudes