I am Maxine Culpa. Along with my late daughter Mia, I first became aquainted with Saint Sybian through our husband, Composer Felix Sebastian Culpa. He was born and raised in Calabria, Italia, near the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Sybaris, in the last century. When he was thirteen, Sybian began to appear to him, initiating him into her spiritual and sensual world. Felix, who was forced to disappear after unfortunate and definitely unsaintlike events , told us of Sybian's devotion to the pleasures of the father's creation: food, drink, the arts (particularly music and dance) all nature ---especially the body!! With the help of American Musicologist Patrick Lockwood, I have written these entries. Now, He also has been taken from us. Our new Scribe is Daniel Pierce, and our new Goddesss is Esperanza, whom Sybian herself has ordained. I hope that all who view this site will be encouraged to let their minds and senses wander to discover the voluptuous gifts the father freely gives us. Newcomers are urged to go to the earliest postings.

Monday, January 15, 2007

Some History of Sybaris












Sybaris was a Greek settlement, part of the Magna Graecia, on the gulf of Taranto,(the
the“toe area’ of Italy), founded about 720 BC. At the time, the region was very fertile and the city became large and wealthy. For magnificence and luxury, the Sybarites were proverbial throughout Greece.

FOR EXAMPLE:

The sybarites in their pursuit of all pleasures, made a law that if any confectioner or cook invented any peculiar and excellent dish, no other artist was allowed to make the same dish for a year. But he alone who invented it was entitled to all the profits to be derived from that manufacture of it for that time “that others might be encouraged to labor at excelling in such pursuits.”[thus the concept of “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY”]

The sybarites were the first to enact “noise ordinances”, forbidding noise-producing crafts from being established within the city, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and the like, their objects being to have their sleep undisturbed in any way; it was not permitted even to keep a rooster inside the city.

They also devised a system that piped wine into their houses…
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