Showing posts with label legends. Show all posts
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Sunday, June 11, 2023

🧙‍♂️ THE LEGEND OF THE 36 JUST

The Nistarim Zadikim or Lamed Vav Zadikim (ל"ו צדיקים) - are the 36 Just - or Sanctified People, a notion rooted in the most mystical aspect of Judaism. 

In gematria, Hebrew esoteric science, Lamed is the letter that represents the number 30 and, Vav, represents the number 6.
Also, 36, means "double life", being double of 18, which represents "life". 

Zadikim is the plural of "Righteous One". Thus, the "Sanctified Persons" are called "The Thirty-Six". 


They are also called Zadikim Nistarim: "Hidden Righteous Ones" or "Hidden Saints". 

According to the Jewish tradition of mystical Hasidic Judaism, there are 36 righteous men [human beings] whose role in life is to validate the existence of the human race under the eyes of God.

The identity of these people is unknown and when one of them has fully accomplished his mission in this world, he dies—and his place is immediately taken over by someone else.

The chosen one is, necessarily, someone who must possess the character for the status of Zadikim.  However, if God does not find on Earth someone good, pure, humble enough to take the place of the dead Zadikim, then, the world could end at the same moment.

The Lamed-Vav Zaddikim are called Nistarim, "the hidden ones" or, in free translation, the unknown ones. 

In folkloric accounts, the condition of Nistarim, to act anonymously, is a choice, a self-imposition of the chosen one that, even if he is not concious of his position, uses his mystical powers to prevent disasters, protect threatened or, persecuted people. 

In everyday life, they live discreetly, in condition of little prominence in the community. On rare occasions, one of them is discovered by accident. The secret must not be revealed. 

The Zadikim themselves are unaware of each other's status, and if a person claims to be one of the 36, that person is surely lying; because the main virtue of a Nistarim is anavah [humility]. 

A humility so sincere that the Nistarim cannot believe that he himself is one of the 36 Righteous Ones.

These 36 Righteous Ones, living on Earth, are a kind of guarantee of the salvation of the world before the judgment of God. 

It is because of them that the Creator allows the existence of Humanity that degenerates into barbarism of customs. 

This situation refers to the biblical episode of Sodom and Gomorrah, when God promises Abraham that he will preserve the city of Sodom if he finds at least 10 righteous men there.

The myth of the Zadikins holds the possibility that every person in this world can be one of the 36 Righteous Ones and can act like one of them, practicing mercy and prayer for salvation, for the good of all Humanity.

Tradition also says that one of these 36 Righteous Ones could potentially be the Jewish Messiah if the world is ready for his identity to be revealed. The Righteous live and die like ordinary people.

The belief in the 36 Just Ones fills, to a large extent, the cult of saints and other personalities in the Judaism. 

Man does not need heavenly intercessors since the world receives Mercy through the actions of the anonymous, unknown and never revealed Righteous Ones.

Anyone can be one of them: the author of this text; the reader or even someone whom everyone considers completely devoid of any merit.

This is the legend of the 36 righteous men. If you like the content, comment what you think: is it a legend or a hidden truth? 

LEGENDS: THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD


There is an ancient Jewish belief concerning the Lamed Vav Tzadikim (or the 36 good people). 

They are also known as Lamed Vavniks or, in another spelling, Lamed Wufniks.

It is said, over millennia, that there are - and always have been - thirty-six men in the world whose mission is to justify human existence before God. They are the Lamed Wufniks.

They don't know each other and are ordinary people who sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others Unknowingly. The Lamed Wufniks are the secret pillars of the universe. If not for them, God would annihilate all mankind.

Unbeknownst to them, they prevent harm from happening to those around them. Without ever standing out from the crowd, without ever losing your anonymity. Without realizing it, they are our saviors.

They are the proof we offer to God that we can be good and pure and therefore deserve his love and mercy. They are the scapegoats of humanity.

If, eventually, a Lamed Wufnik realizes his importance, his death is certain: because no man can support even 1/36 of the weight of the world.

When one of them ascends to heaven his state is of total freezing and God needs to warm him for a thousand years before his soul can live in Paradise.

And it is said that some remain so inconsolable towards humanity that even God cannot warm them. So, from time to time, the Creator advances the Last Judgment clock by one minute.

In the 7th century, Jews from Andalusia (a region in Spain) venerated a teardrop-shaped rock. They believed that the rock was the soul of an unknown Lamed Wufnik petrified by grief.

SOURCES
IMAGENS: @nightcafestudio #AI

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

The Mystery of Dracula's Tomb in Naples

 

The tombstone of marble that, inexplicably, emits a lot of heat - has an inscription in mysterious language. Researchers investigating this strange monument. They try to decipher the message recorded on the effigy that - it is believed, may be the real tomb of Count Dracula, Vlad Tepes (1431-1476), from Romania.

MYSTERIES. ITALY. NAPLES CITY. Researchers at the University L'Orientale of Naples are intrigued by the marble monument located in the architectural ensemble of the Church and the Franciscan convent of Santa Maria La Nova, Naples. Besides an indecipherable inscription, engraved in a language unknown, from one point of the tombstone, exudes a strong and inexplicable warmth.

HISTORY

Two countries already claims to be the place of the 'real tomb of Vlad Tepes III, prince, ruler of Wallachia. These countries are Romania (birthplace of the famous warrior) and Hungary.

Indeed, the tomb of the mythical Impaler is a mystery. According wth historical known  tradition the Prince Vlad died waging war against the Ottoman Turks, his longtime enemies.

His strong personality and even his appearance, were described by Enea Silvio Piccolomini, the future Pope Pius II - in his 'Comments:' ... an honorable man and handsome in his person ... a righteous man... This shows that not all at the time he lived in the prince, they highlighted the bloody cruelty of his character.

He was a Christian struggling to preserve their Christian homeland against the invading infidels. Even being, since that time, in much of the popular imagination - especially of their enemies - the legendary Impaler, lunatic sadist who took his meals enjoying the martyrdom of their victims, tortured with the most painfull practices.

Reportedly Vlad had learned these inhuman methods, he learned how to be a monster - Make them have afraid of you! - With the Ottoman Turks themselves in a period of his youth, when he was their prisoner.

He hated the Turks and died warring against - Basarab III cel Batran Laiotă - (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassarabe_III_da_Valáquia) - who disputed the power in Wallachia supported by the Ottoman Empire. The best known version tells that Besarab himself killed and decapitated Vlad Tepes. The head, as a trophy, would have been taken to Constantinople.

Another version says that - by intervention of his daughter, Maria - Vlad escaped to Italy taking shelter in Naples under the protection of -  in the time -  city-state's queen, Juana of Aragon (1455-1517, born in Spain, to Italians - Giovanna di Trastámara) - being consort of the king, Ferdinando I. 

THE ROMANIAN TOMB OF DRACULA


But many don't agree with this version of history and say that in Snagov, are buried mere horse bones.

These believe that Vlad, although badly wounded in the battle, was rescued by their weight in gold and forwarded to her daughter Maria that, during the Ottoman occupation, had moved to Naples.

Despite the discussions, there is some evidence to support the idea of the death of Dracula on italian soil and his tomb in Naples.

The uncle of Queen Juana was King Alfonso of Aragon (1396-1458 - reigned between 1416-1458) - Freemason belonging to the Dragon Order (hence the nickname Drakul) as well as outside the Prince Vlad, following the tradition of his father. Maria, at seven years old, was given to be educated by a Neapolitan lady and later married a member of Ferrillo family. 

THE PARTENOPEA TOMB

Then,  would not coincidence that the tomb of Dracula in Naples be officially known as the Matteo Ferrill tomb. The funeral monument is within a smaller cloister (a room) of the convent of Santa Maria la Nova. Its authorship is attributed to Jacopo della Pila.

The Tomb of Matteo Ferrill - or like it is called, Tomb Partenopea - is adorned with an elaborate representation of a dragon. It is a curious fact when is known that the deceased was Dracula's son in law.

In addition, the monument is adorned with other images which are rare to be found in European graves of the West. Below of  the great dragon, there are two sphinxes.


THE PARTENOPEA CODE

But that's not all. The marble was submited to exams by researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV / Italy - 2015.

On the tombstone occurs an anomalous phenomenon: the rock exudes an inexplicable heat whose origin or cause no scientist was able - still - identify or explain.

To complete the mystery, the inscriptions on ancient characters - that seems to be a code, they are a challenge that - at the time of this reportage - was an indecipherable document.


Until then, philologists discovered almost nothing about this weird language. They konow what it not is:  it isn't Slavic, Croatian or Bulgarian, Macedonian or Cyrillic. There are signals that appear to be Latinos. Others, Greeks, Coptics, but it is impossible to distinguish a single word.

The text would been designed by an esoteric expert, perhaps someone who belonged to the Dragon Order. Thus, the words on the tombstone would only be understood by those for who the code keys were known.



IMAGE. Emblem of the Dragon Order

The Dragon enters the life of Vlad Tepes as his father's heritage, this, yes, member of the  Dragon Order and so called Vlad Dracul.

The Dragon Order was a military-religious society, Christian, founded in 1387 by Sigismund of Luxembourg, later Holy Roman Emperor and his wife, Barbara Cillei.

The coat of Tepes family is usually described having, like main figure, a dragon. But the truth is that the most prominent symbol coat of arms of the princes of Wallachia  is an eagle.

SOURCES
BARONE, Maria Melania. Dracula è sepolto a Napoli? Incisione misteriosa riapre il dibattito
YOU-NG/ITÁLIA, Pubblicato il 21 maggio 2015
[http://news.you-ng.it/2015/05/21/dracula-e-sepolto-a-napoli-incisione-misteriosa-riapre-il-dibattito/]
+ WIKIPEDIA/Italiano. Jacopo della Pila
[http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacopo_della_Pila]
+ WIKIPEDIA/Romeno. Vlad Țepeș
[http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Tepes]

Friday, September 20, 2013

THE MYSTERY OF THE... ALENIGENAS AT MEXICO

research, footages and photographs with references

HUMANOIDS. MEXICO. The belief in the clandestine presence, at Earth, of individuals belonging to non-human races, the theoric universe of humanoids who use incomprehensible energies and technologies of transportation and communication, these are ideas that, currently, occupy their own and vast cultural niche - covering since the emergence of new sciences - although, by many called false sciences - even a significative space  the fancy of popular imagery in global ambit.

The creatures sighted, filmed, photographed at different times and countries, these beings that some scholars point out, in the Middle Ages, have been identified as demons, elves, fairies - contemporaneously, are most often associated, in general terms, to the called ETs. 

By certain way it was established in a simplification: these strangers are extraterrestrial. 

However, behind the generic label "alien" exist numerous beings already cataloged, physically very different, inspiring some other theories that go beyond the exogenous hypothesis: of the creature that comes out of the space.

Currently, there are and coexist numerous other hypotheses that, a priori, have admited that not all humanoid aliens images that have been caught by the cameras of the world are necessarily of creatures  other planets. Among the alternative hypotheses are:

- the hypothesis of The Intraterrestrials, a civilization, some Race or, even, Races of humanoids, underground's inhabitants. Among these Races could be included the reptilians, much known because often, they have appeared in the midia - be in the ufologic news, be in fiction works of cinema and TV .

- The humanoids from other existential dimensions, that come from parallel universes, of other time slots; of the future, for example.

- The humanoids that are earthly entities but belong to other vibrational tracks of Reality, understood under different ways along the time: nature spirits, elementals, genies, like fairies, goblins and demons of Middle Age, for example. Among few other hypothesis. 

The  image records of these humanoid beings are much rarer than the records of UFOs. Although these sightings and alien sightings, as well as UFO sightings occur around the world, in some countries there is a tradition rooted, more documents or a greater zeal in relation to records. It is the case of Russia, for example.

In Latin America, some years ago,  the number of recorded images of these aliens has increased at Mexico and Argentina. In both countries, ufology and exobiology arouse great interest among scholars, academics and amateurs from different areas of science, as well as among the general public and in the midia.    

UFOs and their alleged occupants are always in the headlines at America of Hispanic language, as happened recently (late 2012), with the strange luminous and cylindrical object - that was filmed, in different days, entering and leaving of the volcano Popocatepetl's crater in midlle of a furious eruption.

HOLLOW EARTH

In fact, at Mexico, there are an ufologic traditions which, currently, is upgraded and mixed with the old animist beliefs that linked the geological phenomena of volcanism - in the region - with gods.

Legends that talk of  UFOs,  always near the volcanoes and of the huge volcanic mountains because in these places, an advanced Race of
intraterrestrials humanoids work in the extraction of energetic raw material.      

Moreover, even according the traditions, many of these volcanoes and mountains have gates to another world, to another humanity,  where live the  underground Breeds of mythological Hollow Earth.

The humanoids are seen with some frequency and have been photographed and filmed in the woods surrounding volcanoes and other mountains.

While researchers examine the images and cogitate between earthlings or not, many residents of small towns and villages - where these sightings occurred where records were made - those people, simplest, understand these creatures as old acquaintances of the local culture: magical beings, guardians of nature, of trees, of the great rocks, as the Peña de Lobos, of volcanoes, as the Popocatepetl.

RECORDS OF HUMANOID-ALIENS IN MEXICO
with references

BELOW - ALAMO, state of Sonora. September 29, 2002, during the a rural party, another blatant of an alien presence. (IMAGES: MAUSSAN, 2005 - Part 2 in 14 minutes and 33 sec.)


BELOW: CLOSE on creature, 13 min e 20 seg..


BELOW - ALAMO, SONORA state. SEPTEMBER 29, 2002. During a same rural party, a one more time, a humanoid is suprised by the camera. (IMAGES: MAUSSAN, 2005)


BELOW - SAMAHIL CITY, state YUCATAN. JULY, 2003. Photo taken by a teenager, a girl,14 year old (in 2003). In the city, witnesses ensure, in video interviews, that several of these beings were seen in the area for a few months that year.  (MAUSSAN, 2005 - Parte 2 )


BELOW: CITY OF JUAREZ, CHIHUAHUA state. MAY 2004. (MAUSSAN, 2005 - Parte 2) the record sent to the researcher - in condition of anonymity - by the young man who appears on photo who claimed: he feared being ridiculed.



BELOW - HIDALGO city,  NUEVO LÉON state
BETWEEN 27 AND 28 OCTOBER 2006

2006. In the frames below, the creature appears in the video presented by Jaime Maussan (nearly 6 minutes long), near the Lake Azteca (in the region of the namesake Reserve). The reportage was realized in 2006 by Gilda Estrada and Sergio Garcia, investigators of paranormal phenomena.



The reporters investigators were called by the nearby residents who reported sightings of a small humanoid being who was saw moving with difficulty, dragging itself on the ground as if injured. Arriving on the scene of events, the journalists were surprised by finding the scene, that was recorded on video.

Gilda Estrada also said in a interview about the episode, that staying in the place was almost impossible due to a strong and unpleasant odor of sulfur, which seemed to emanate from humanoid. 

Judging that the creature was dead, Estrada and her partner, Sergio Garcia - decided to return to the city to get some suitable material for the rescue of the body (a container, gloves, and plastics) and, by this way,  avoid direct contact with the unknown organism and thus any microbiological contamination between species (human-alien).  

However, when they returned to the site, already was night the body was gone what raises two possibilities: the humanoid was alive and managed to escape, left the place; or, dead or not, someone, perhaps other of its race - rescued the mate.

BELOW - PEÑA DE LOBOS (Environmental Reserve) 
MEXICO state,  2011


Del programa GET2 México (GET=Guía Extraterrestre). Se rumora a partir de una fotografía de un ser gris en Peña de Lobos, que ellos viven en los bosques de la zona, desde hace mucho tiempo atrás, cuando cayó un objeto desconocido.
[http://youtu.be/M8gKK288X9g]

Photograph of a gray humanoid in Peña de Lobos. In the region the folk says that these beings have lived in the woods for many generations. They have appeared after an unidentified flying object crashed in the area. The incident is so ancient, happened there is so much time  that its narrative has already been incorporated into the collection of local legends.

Traditional scenario of paranormal events, Peña de Lobos is one of countless postcards of Mexico fantastic face. 

It is a place of many stories: between legends and rumors, there is a body of beliefs more or less folkloric that includes from magical beings, transdimensional, guardians of the groves until the most recent characters from the popular imagination, the strange, alien humanoids: intraterrestrials, like many think - or extraterrestrials and their bright aircrafts crossing the sky around the summits of the mountains.
 

In a video (posted in internet on AUGUST 3, 2013) on the Channel of WEB-TV INFINITE - the host of the program Reality Point Zero, Adrian Moscoso Pacheco says he was searched by the producer of a radio program about paranormal and ufology, Carlos Javier Contreras - from the municipality of Jilotzingo.

Was Contreras who has shown the photo - of the creature, the Peña de Lobos's Gray - to Moscoso Pacheco. This, resolved to investigate the matter on the spot, the forest of Reserva Ambiental da Peña (Stone of Wolves environmental reserve).

According to Contreras, in the video that was posted on the Internet in August 2013, the displayed photo would have been obtained many years before, by a tourist, in 2011.


José Luis Silva, there 30 years owner of a complex of huts in the Reserve, appeared in the reportage and showed and the original photograph to journalists (6 minutes and 32 seconds of the video). He also claimed to have witnessed the sighting and described the creature and its movements . The being had fled when he realized he was being photographed (or observed). 

SOURCES CONSULTED
Historias a fondo: Peña de Lobos - mayo 18, 2012
[http://www.pdelobos.com/1/?p=164] 
MAUSSAN, Jaime. XCon 2005 - Jaime Maussan and 15 Years of UFO and Alien Sightings in Mexico Pt 1.
YOUTUBE, Published on Jul 6, 2012 
.............................. .   XCon 2005 - Jaime Maussan and 15 Years of UFO and Alien Sightings in Mexico Pt 2.
YOUTUBE, Published on Jul 6, 2012
[http://youtu.be/1iva6MmZSKU]

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Archaeologists unveil the Naylamp's legend



In the tomb, located in the complex-Chotuna Chornancap, were
found
120 objects including ornaments made of gold, silver and
copper.
Archaeologists believe the remains belong to Cetemi,
the
wife of Naylamp - the mythical hero of a pre-Columbian nation
of Peru.
MORE PHOTOS: RPP

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Peru rewrites history books once more with ancient archaeological find
Naylamp’s temple discovered in Lambayeque.
The Legend of Naylamp


PERU. In October, last year (2011), archaeologists from the National Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology "Enrique Bruning" (Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Antropología) of the region Lambayeque made ​​an extraordinary discovery. They found a grave with 120 objects, including ornaments and emblems made ​​of gold, silver and copper as well as 116 pieces of pottery.

In principle, the scientists did think that they had found only one more of the leaders of the Lambayeque culture, which according to oral tradition was founded by the legendary Naylamp, but after excavations patients were surprised to perceive that the remains were not of a man but of a woman.

Then, they remembered that, according to oral tradition, the Huaca Chornancap was dedicated to the wife of Naylamp, Cetemy. Now, many already assume that the found may belong to this legendary woman.


However, archaeologists are cautious. They want to investigate further to give a definitive opinion. They expect to complete the laboratory testing. If confirmed the age of the remains, it means that the bones have about 1.250 years, which reinforces the theory of identity Cetemi.

In this case, is necessary a review of the conceptual approach of Lambayeque culture. Until then, it was considered that at that time and in the midst of this people, only the men that exercised political and religious powers received the funeral honors consistent, in function - with the importance of social position they occupied.

But the finding of a woman buried with the pomp of a queen, along with valuables, can demonstrate that the feminine sex could posses more social relevance than was previously supposed.





THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPLEX
OF THE CHOTUNA - CHORNANCAP

The Huaca* de Chomancap is located 10 km west of Lambayeque**. It is a platform made of mud bricks. It has 70 meters long, 50 wide, 25 tall and is surrounded by 21 acres of building infrastructure that would have been audience saloons, warehouses, workshops, homes and cemeteries.

Archaeologists, on the basis of popular traditions and previous evidence, they say that in this place, called Huaca, is located the Palace of Cetemi. With base in this information, is assumed that her tomb could be there. The identification of body found will can - finally - confirm the legend which thus becomes part of the history.


* HUACA. Sacred place in the pre-colombian peruvian culture

** LAMBAYEQUE. Yampellec or Lampalliqi. One of the 24 departments of
Peru located northwest of the country. Includes coastal and Andean regions.



SOURCE: CABREJOS, Juan. Arqueólogos lambayecanos tras los pasos de la esposa de Naylamp.
RPP, published in 16/03/2012
[http://www.rpp.com.pe/2012-03-16-arqueologos-lambayecanos-tras-los-pasos-de-la-esposa-de-naylamp-noticia_461966.html]


Sunday, June 5, 2011

The buccaneers of Ilhabela



SÃO PAULO state – At Ilhabela, the unique archipelago-town of the brazilian shore, located at the littoral of São Paulo state, dwellers of a traditional community of fishers called "Caiçara dos Castelhanos, on the beach 'Canto da Lagoa", in the last Easter holiday (2011), found the remains of an ancient wrecked vessel.

The relic was uncovered after the heavy rains fell in the region by increasing the volume and velocity of waters from a stream that disembogue along that stretch of beach.

The vessel, ancient, appears and disappears beneath the sands. Sometimes years pass without giving any signal. Then, It is Forgotten. Most of the piece is buried. Apparently, the structure is in good condition although it is not possible to determine whether the ship is full or not. Is possible to see the large beams of pine riga, a very tough wood used in building ships, galleons and caravels.

Ilhabela is well known for tales of pirates. The Bay of Castilians became famous for having been refuge of pirates and strategic point of slave ships that still were practicing trafficking even after the abolition of slavery.

SOURCE: ALMEIDA, Saulo. Ilhabela - Forte chuva revela embarcação antiga na areia da Praia dos Castelhanos.
IN O Noticiado, published in 24/05/2011
[http://www.onoticiado.com.br/noticias-de-sao-sebastiao-e-ilhabela/noticias-de-ilhabela/8568-ilhabela-forte-chuva-revela-embarcacao-antiga-na-areia-da-praia-dos-castelhanos.html]


Monday, May 23, 2011

"The Amazons": Some facts, some legends





Women indigenous. South-americans female, women warriors, "Amazons" in South America! The historical chronicles about "The Amazons" of the "New World" is often slighted by scholars, because the narratives of travel, many times, seem to be exaggerated or much fanciful.


"Amazons", a tribe, a nation in the tropical jungle, in the equatorial rain florest is an absurd! It known that the myth of "The Amazons" belongs, mainly, to a most ancient mythology: "The Amazons", the tribe of Asia Minor of warriors women was transmited for the Ocident trough by the classical greek mythology. The word "amazon" has greek origin! And returning in timeline even more, a more old origin appears, persian (or "parse") and Shythian (map above) orign: the expression ha-mazan (means warriors women).




Ykanmyabas: Women without husbands


Ludwig Schewennhagen claims that the designation "The Amazons" was used by the "Amerabas" when the historic meeting took place with the fleet of Orellana. He writes: The name "Amazon" refering to the lower basin of the great river, the region between the mouth of the Xingu River and the mouth of the river Parentins is antiga. At the epoch of the arrive of european navigators, the tribe of the Tupinambás already used to call "Amazonas", the region of the lower course of this river... (SCHWENNHAGEN, 1986 - p 37)

Nevertheless, nor the more dazzled or perplex among the cronists that faced the astonishing exuberance of the Amazon rainforest, suggested that the native used the term "Amazonas" to talk about the tribe of women warriors. For the natives of that jungle, these women were "The Ykamyabas" (Icamiabas, that means "women withou husbands"), among other indigenous terms like "coniupuiaras" (konyu-pupyaras, Great Ladies).




Muiraquitã. Theodoro Sampaio, 1920.


Resistance of the Matriarchy

Leaving by side the sphere of the mythology, considering the traditional knowledge of cultural anthropology, is possible to understand the tribes of warriors women, in different parts of the world like the remaining reality of the archaic matriarchal societies.

In the case of brazilian indigenous nations, oral culture of the people confirms that in a remote past, the tribes were under the matriarchal power. Anthropologists, like Claude Levi Strauss for example, have colected numerous legends that preserve the history of how the men, after a long time beeing dominated by the women, conspired and took political and economic power reversing the social roles. Much possibly, many women don't accepted the new conditions. These, can have created a dissidence in the form of closed female societies .


In "Relation abrégée d'un voyage fait dans l'intérieur de l'Amérique méridionale depuis la côte de la mer du Sud jusqu'aux côtes du Brésil et de la Guyane, en descendant la rivière des Amazones" (1745. Something like: Brief account of a journey to the interior of Brazil from the coast south towards the Guyana, sailing down the Amazon river), Charles-Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), french scientist and explorer, exposes his theorie about the warriors women of South America. He doesn't need of Atlanteans or Phoenicians to explain which he understand like a natural social phenomenon. La Condamine writes:

...if, in some historic time, could has existed Amazons in the world, this was at America, where wandering life of the wives, coerced to accompany their husbands, often engaged in making war, could make awake the ideia of flee, of to rebel, searching the stability and independence. To flee to the slave condition and beast of cargo. A resolution like this nothing has of extraordinary.

More natural would still be an elite matriarchal refuse submit themself under command of his former lieutenants. Let's meditate...

Sources:
ICAMIABAS.
IN [http://lendasemisteriosdomundo.blogspot.com/2010/06/as-amazonas-icamiabas.html]
REIS E SILVA, Iran. As Amazonas. IN Pantanal News, 02/11/2011.>/br> [http://www.pantanalnews.com.br/contents.php?CID=66202]
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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Amazons, Phoenicians and Atlantis



As Amazonas, Ulrico Schmidt


The major of historians consider the woman warrior in South America only like a legend, less than a myth or even like mere fantasy of the cronists.

However, some little things in the notes of the explorers make belive that there is a background of strange true behind the legend. The chronicle of Friar Gaspar de Carvajal contains at least two visions of "Amazonas". The witness, source of information of the writer, talks about the clohthes of the women: if in the battle they were naked or almost, in their cities they use tunics of fine wool.

But, what wool is this? The brazilian indigenous, those called "Amerabas", lived naked, or almost, ever. They also did not knowledge the herding. It seems clear that the warrior women of South America don't belonged to same ethnical groups of the others natives of the region. In fact, the witness doesn't could be more clear:


They wear fine clothes made with the wool of the "Peruvian sheep" (alpacas): "Their clothes are like tunics tight down the breasts. On their shoulders and thet they use cloaks that are with cords.


Their long hairs, touch the floor and they have gold crowns on their head, the width of two fingers. Their land is populated by camels (llamas) serving as pack animals. There, exist two saltwater lakes.

Between Bolivia and Peru are notable saltwater lakes as Titicaca, the second largest saltwater lake in the world, located at 3.810 meters of altitude - and the "Poopo" lake.


Amazons of Andes

Researchers from different times have sought to explain the origins of this strange nation of women in South America In 1555, the Franciscan priest and cosmographer, André Thevet (1502-1580, french), published a compilation of texts of various explorers.

About the tribe of "Amazonas", Thevet concluded that possibly were descendants of Amazons Greek that after the Trojan War, had been dispersed around the world. Arriving to South America via North America and Central America, settled themselves in insular territories, in small islands, where they built their cities and underground chambers.


Atlanteans and Phoenicians

Some researchers have supported a history even more old for the great nation of the "Amazons". More ancient that Troy war. Some scholars belive that these women warriors are survivors of a community of the Atlantean civilization that was in a colapse process, and after, much later more, in association with the phoenicians, the women crossed the ocean even reaching the America continent.

Among these scholars figured the austrian professor Ludwig Schewennhagen, whose book "Phoenicians in Brazil: Ancient History of Brazil" is much quoted. Schewennhagen says the arrival of the "Amazonas" at Brazil coincides with the epoch of the Phoenicians arrival, between 1000 and 1200 BC. He also advocates that the name of the great Amazonas river has its origin in this remote time (contradicting the version of spanishes).




The warriors women of Dahomey, between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries


The oldest ancestors of women warriors were a nation, member of the immense empire of Humanity and civilization of the Atlanteans. Possibly, the Amazons could had been the last matriarchal society in the context of an advanced culture. Their tribes were scattered across almost the entire known world. Asia Minor, yes, but also in Africa where were known as the warriors women of Dahomey. They were Amazons, because they dominated the riding, they were knights women, and warriors because they had the knowledge the art of war and weapons.

SOURCES:
SCHWENNHAGEN, Ludwig. Fenícios no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Cátedra, 1986.
IN [http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/6585607/719953186/name/7389093-Fenicios-No-Brasil-Ludwig-Schwennhagen-PDF.pdf]
ICAMIABAS
IN [http://lendasemisteriosdomundo.blogspot.com/2010/06/as-amazonas-icamiabas.html]


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Amazons: Stories of the women warriors

The legend of the women warriors roamed all the heavenly realms.It belongs to those uniform circle ofdreams and ideas around which the poeticand religious imagination of all human races andall ages gravitate almost instinctively.
Alexander von Humboldt

One of the most fascinating legends of the mythical culture of the Amazon region is the saga of the female warriors called Amazons. A story so extraordinary that the memory of this great tribe ended up giving name to the whole extense region of tropical-equatorial jungle. 

Since the first incursions of the europeans crossing the Atlantic to conquer territories, chroniclers Spanishes and Portugueses, among others, talk about these brave women of South America.

Although they have received that name as a reference to the mythical tribe of women called Amazons, at ancient Greece, that also dominated perfectly fabulous steeds, the Amazons of South America they did not know horses. But in terms of the arts of war those indigenous women were as courageous like the greek female warriors.

At the time of the great maritims discoveries, time of the great navigations appears the first and unique (of a eyewitness) relate about amazons of the South-America. The notes were written by Gaspar de Carvajal, catholic religious that was present in the expedition (1541) of Francisco Orellana (1490-1550, explorer and adventurer of Spain) along the great river of the tropical forest, the Amazon river.

In his text, Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana (Account of the recent discovery of the famous Grand river which was discovered by great good fortune by Captain Francisco de Orellana), the dominican Friar Gaspar de Carvajal tells:

...[the indigenous, the men]... They are the subjects and tributaries of the Amazon. Realizing our arrival, they ran to ask help to the women-warriors. They came in a small group. It was ten or twelve of them. We saw them. (They confronted us). In front of everyone them (the men) as captains ... fought bravely. (Indigenous, men who fled of us) ... They all were killed by beating with with big wood sticks (the sticks are called 'bordunas').

These women have very light skin. Are of tall stature, long hair arranged in braids around the head. They have a strong physique, well trained. They don't use clothes, living naked and cover only the genitals (in terms of the Friar, 'the shames'). They are skilled with their bows and arrows and one of this women worth ten men.

However, Carvajal says that in the end, the spanishes obtained the win against the women warriors killing about eight of them. One of the natives asked about the women said that they lived inside (at hinterlands, not on the coast), around seven days far from the coast ... their villages were made with stones, their homes had doors and their roads had vigilants in all the strategic points for require the payment of a tax to let pass the travelers.

Legend or fact, Carvajal's account coincides with many others left by others historic travelers. Everyone agrees that these women not cohabit with men. It is an all-female society. That does not mean, however, that they have no contact with men while males. After all, for the women-warriors were needed too procreate to preserve their bloodline.

With them – they interbreed. When they become pregnant, they release the captives. If the child that born of the relationship is a girl, will be educated to be a warrior. If borns a boy, he will be delivered to the tribe of the father or, according to other information, will be killed immediately.


GOLD, SILVER AND RELIGION

At the epoch of Carvajal and Orellana the Amazons were headed by an honorable warrior. Hers was recorded until the name or perhaps the title. It was called 'Conhori'. 

The Amazons were rich. They had large amounts of gold and silver that was used to the manufacture of a variety of objects, from tools to clothes and jewelry. But the great luxuries were intended for an elite of nobles. The common women used objects made ​​of wood or seeds. These powerfull society of women mastered the art of pottery, too.

In account collected by Carvajal, these women did not lived in simple villages, like the other Indians of the region. Apparently, they had a culture more advanced than the South American tribes that inhabited below of the equator line.

Those women lived in cities. They had a capital city, where the Great Lady had her residence. There, existed five major buildings dedicated to worship of the sun. 

These large houses were called "caranaí". There were big salons, with covered floors, ceilings decorated with paintings very coloridas and many idols and others objects made ​​of gold and silver. They wear clothes of fine wool, because the lands of the Amazons warriors, there are many sheep, as in Peru.

The brazilian indigenous that portugueses navigators found, men and women, still remained limited in a Neolithic culture. The Amazons women that lived further north and west, were much more evolved. This is a mistery.
[http://www.pantanalnews.com.br/contents.php?CID=66202]

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

The Legend of The Golden Lagoon

by Ligia Cabus


At the community of Pontinha (Minas Gerais state) exists a great lagoon which has more than 3 km of extension. The place is surrounded in legends. The local people tells that where is located the lagoon today, in the past, there was a city named The Blue Land, a city which sunk for its sins. According tradition all happened when a procession was passing. Arriving in front of a tavern, there were many people dancing. The priest requested them to interrupt the party during the passage of the holy image.


But the people refused and continued with the dance. One woman even made fun of the event and sang grotesque verses to face the priest. Without having anything else to do, the procession went ahead. In the church when the priest raised the Blessed, the waters invaded the city that submerged. Since that time, the lagoon received the name of Golden Lagoon of the enchanted waters.




The Golden Lagoon


At the center of the lagoon nobody dares to pass. People say that owners of the boats do not go there because they could run the risk that the hulls of their boats shock with the top of tower the old church. Fishermen disappear victims of a mysterious phenomena. Eddies that appear from the nothing in those seemingly calm waters.

In another occasion, two old men died entangled in their fishing net. When they were found, was found that the cause of the death wasn't drowning. They had not swallowed a single drop of water. At the edge of the lagoon, the washerwomen occupy themselves with their work. Suddenly, a pretty young appeared that offered herself take to care of the girl. When the mother finished her work, sought the woman with the girl but she was gone. The washerwoman stood desesperate. However, with the same magic which woman disappeared she appeared again in a strange situation. She emerged of the waters bringing the child in his arms safely.

About The Lagoon, also exist ocurrences of mirages, like a red calf that appears daily at the midday hour. He enters in the waters and goes ahead slowly to disappear from sight. Often, ghostly figures appear to terrorize people that wash objects such as pots, plates, glasses in the Golden Lagoon. They could use this things in their life at underwater tomb.

reference
ANORMINO, Luciana. A lenda da Lagoa Dourada.
IN Escritório de Histórias
[http://www.escritoriodehistorias.com.br/Portals/1/Pontinha.pdf]