ABSTRACT
This chapter examines temporality as the essential connecting element that binds the relationship between ego-identity, the sacred and the social dreaming matrix with regard to the creation of a founding myth. The rite is called “the Festino di San Silvestro”. San Silvestro was a Basilian Monk and Patron of the Town of Troina in the Province of Enna. A rite of passage could be one of the most important examples of the anthropopoietic process, since the “body” of the community, in the case of San Silvestro, changes during the rite. The icon of San Silvestro is present in many dreams and the feelings that men have in the dreams are the same as the affection they felt for San Silvestro too. The icon of the father or sometimes San Silvestro is always a part of the mental field of the group of men who have to transform their roles and have to tell or have to attest their passage.
