video | Candlemas rite and tradition of the Neapolitan language: respect for human diversity

Homage from the Neapolitan Academy to the protection of the Neapolitan language and culture to the Candlemas tradition and to the people who have represented and venerated it for millennia. This work is created in collaboration with Maestro Lello Traisci. Candlemas is an ancient and pre-Christian tradition which in Campania is linked to the devotion of the "Mamma Schiavona" or "black" Madonna, protector of every sexual identity and orientation. Neapolitan culture has always been respectful of every sexual gender since the times of ancient Greece.
In this sense Neapolitan language is expressed in the rites of the so-called "juta dei femminielli" or ascent of the LGBT people towards the sanctuary of Montevergine (Avellino, Monte Partenio, Campania) their guardian.
Excerpt from a speech by the late Maestro Marcello Colasurdo, to whom this video is also dedicated.