Sunday, May 31, 2009

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Star Festival Tanabata


not abundant in Japanese mythology episodes of the stars. One of them, which indeed is the version of a myth from China, revolves around the creation of the Milky Way and is commemorated in the Tanabata festival, held every year on 7 July.
This romantic episode has featured a strong pastor who falls for a beautiful spinner, which was actually a goddess. In the Japanese version, the girl's father was the god of heaven, who tasted both his flirtation that ended up taking them to their heavenly realms. But his most beloved pastor and then followed the girl's father created the great blue river of the Milky Way to keep out the lover of his daughter. The love that was felt however that in the end the god to give in and allow the two lovers could cross the river to girders of a bridge formed by magpies and meet once a year, notably the seventh day of seventh month , to thereby move together one night.
The young spinner called Tanabata and associate it with him that the Japanese constellation known to Westerners such as name and Vega in the constellation Lyra. On the night of Tanabata, women and men who celebrate this holiday hung strips of paper and cotton from the branches of the trees of the receipts had been written previously poems about lovers heaven or requests loving nature. Also, pouring water into a shallow dish and watched the reflection of the stars in the water, then drop a few leaves in the container kaji and interpret from the movements of water and leaves the fate awaited them in love.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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POWERS OF ANIMALS


Birds and other wildlife played a crucial role in religion and mythology of the Maya., Some species being associated with certain gods and celestial bodies, or they relate to the calendar or other areas of Maya society.
The jaguar, which the Maya considered as the top predator, became logically associated with the most important celestial body, the Sun Also, the Maya worshiped a collection of jaguar gods who identified with the underworld, night, caves, stealth and hunting.
Another less obvious association was established between the alligator and Itzamna, the former supreme deity of the Maya. Less was the affinity between the rabbit and the moon, "the Mayans believed that the moon could see the outline of a rabbit."
On the other hand, the Maya reserved for animals of symbolic value when naming individuals and communities as well as the days and months of the sacred calendar. Two the first four human beings were called Quitze Jaguar and Jaguar Night. Also, the harpy step to personify the katun 20 years as baktun 400 years, and the divine twins and one single one came to mean craftsman eleventh day of the Mayan calendar, which predicted the future shamans. It was said that those born on that day were happy and fortunate.