11 juin 2007
The Saint-Vosy church of Culhat
Culhat
depended on the commandery of templiers of Foulhouze until XIVème
century, then passed to the commandery knights of
Saint-Jean-of-Jerusalem de Montferrand.
One
finds his past in his armorial bearings, which are: of azure to the
lantern of died of the place of gold, accompanied in chief of two
Maltese crosses by money. One finds there vestiges prehistoric and
Gallo-Roman discovered with the field of Eguille and the Saint Martin's
day Field.
The
Saint-Vosy church is of XIIème century: 3 naves and transept remade
with XIXème in Romance style, bedside with gilded patina, frontage with
mosaics. Closed, unfortunately. One says in the country that the cellar
of the house of at side an underground left which joined the old crypt.
The lantern of died of Culhat
A
lantern of deaths is a built building, of variable form, often slim
(like a small slim tower), generally hollow and surmounted of an
openwork house (at least three openings), in which in the twilight, one
hoisted, often with a system of pulleys, a lit lamp, supposed to be
used as guide with the late ones.
Built
for the majority around XIIème century, it is thought that these small
hollow towers, surmounted of an openwork house and in which one hoisted
in the twilight a lit lamp, played the part of a kind of headlight
intended to guide the hearts of disappeared towards the eternal rest.
More especially as one finds them practically only with the accesses of
the cemeteries, although some could disappear with the wire from time.
The presence of a lantern, if it were not moved, can then materialize
the site of an old place of burial forgotten today.
Survival
of a religious rite of Celtic origin, one also thought that the
released protective light of these places during the night, could
retain death and to prevent it from going rôder to make new victims.
This in particular in period of epidemic where the flame of the lampier
could be also used to supply on fire the hearths, thus avoiding an
useless contact between the villagers which could have been fatal for
them.
That of Culhat is a cylindrical lantern of deaths of XIIème century out of arkose, located at the site of the old cemetery. All around it, the grass forms a thicker grass circle. It would seem that one is in the presence of a vortex and of a crossing of telluric networks. Perhaps these lanterns, at the energy level, were used of headlight, shower and elevator to the hearts in departures… (one also finds some on certain churches being next to a cemetery)
http://lanternes.free.fr/presentation.htm