Wise women are ingesters of stories, transmitters of values, affections and universes full of symbolism, sitting next to our mothers, grandparents or aunts to listen to them with their hearts is almost like a ritual, as a way to connect with our past to win over us. new strength in the present.
This type of oral inheritance usually transmitted by older generations has a much greater impact than the simple genetic or even material inheritance we can receive from our parents or grandparents. There is a clear intention in these stories, values, principles and a universe full of magic, spirituality and inspiration that we never forget.
- From the point of view of anthropology.
- Women have always been a great transmitter of culture.
- Since ancient times.
- It was she who gathered the younger generations at her feet and on the edge of her skirt to offer them the gift of word and offer.
- Of a story.
- A story or a legend.
The female voice has served for many years not only as a wonderful channel of learning, but also as a sigh that shapes and inspires young minds about change, fairer, bolder and at the same time sensitive to progress.
We often look at neighbouring countries like those that spread through Egypt, Tunisia or Libya and imagine the classic submissive woman, without a voice or right to vote, locked up in this kind of clearly patriarchal culture. However, we are wrong if we think so, because the woman has never committed suicide, in fact, we can already hear her screams and faces demanding the need for change in the Arab Spring of 2011.
They have always been there, with their presence, with their wise eyes and, above all, with their voice, as well as the most emblematic of all the narrators: Sherazade, no matter if the context in which they live is oppressive or discriminatory. . They initiate peaceful revolutions in private places through word, through language that combines sensitivity and intelligence, traditional and challenging.
On the other hand, it is very common for women to tell stories of women, because it is in these relationships that the history of life itself is also integrated, are oral legacies that are often silenced in the public sphere because they are too uncomfortable or revolutionary, hence the importance of these intimate and complicit spaces where grandmothers, mothers or aunts gather young people to explain what another woman could do.
These are extraordinary means by which the use of the word acts as a critical consciousness, as a channel of progress and that impact that begins from the subjective and the emotional, to reach the public sphere and reality.
Hearing a meaningful and inspiring story is a real “quantum leap” for us. In other words, it pushes us into a higher state, to this perception in which we must become aware of a truth to initiate change.
Thus, we cannot forget how our brain reacts when it listens to a report transmitted orally: not only do we have the message, our mind is also responsible for leaving an emotional mark, thus creating a significant and permanent memory. Now, already dressed in our adult clothes, we remember so accurately the stories our grandmothers told us in childhood.
The use of the word is the art of any therapy, it is the tool used to promote, confront and promote self-decipherment and change, so we cannot deny that all these stories transmitted by women since ancient times have also served in a way. healing and personal growth for later generations.
A story almost always hides a set of values and emphasizes certain priorities of life in which we are inspired. It costs nothing to sit next to our wise men, our elders listening to their stories of the past, those that tell us of another era and others. moments when there are often personal experiences that we know well.
Because love always speaks the same language, because disappointments are lived in the same way in the past and in the present, we will hear their voices, we will participate in this legacy that should not be lost and we will seek moments of complicity with these wise women to enjoy their experiences, with their beautiful looks that reflect the time and wisdom of which we are all worthy.