Feel Ibiza – traditions and legends

In times of Carthaginian empire, Ibiza was considered a mystical island, a place of sacred land. The powerful people came to Ibiza to spend his last days or to be buried, because of the island’s reputation as a sanctuary of spirituality and the belief of a faster ascending to the Everafter. This converted Ibiza to have the largest cemetery in the Mediterranean.

For the Phoenicians the island was blessed by the gods due to the red earth of volcanic origin as there was no element, human or animal detrimental to men. Even now many people carry a bag around his neck with Ibiza ground to protect them from the bad energies.

Ibiza became famous as a spiritual center for the worship of the goddess Tanit, the goddess of love, fertility, life, prosperity, harvest, death and the moon. It was one of the most important Carthaginian goddesses of mythology. The hippies who arrived in Ibiza in the sixties and seventies recovered the worship to the blissful goddess.

Hippies also brought their way of life and discovered places considered sacred as Es Vedrà. They are responsible for another large explosion of mysticism. One of the hippies rituals carried out in Ibiza is sun worship. Another ritual is the quintessential hippie party on Benirràs beach, where in addition to meditation, one can be carried away by the rhythm of the drums and enjoy the sunset.

The physicist and astrologer Nostradamus foretold in the fifteenth century that “Ibiza is the last refuge of the earth”: in case of a global nuclear war, the special drafts of Ibiza would possibly permit the island to be the last place where life remained………