Baucis and Philemon

Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theosenia when a god was involved.

Zeus and Hermes came disguised as ordinary peasants, and began asking the people of the town for a place to sleep that night. They were rejected by all before they came to Baucis and Philemon´s simple rustic cottage. Though the couple were poor, their generosity far surpassed that of their rich neighbours, at whose homes the gods found "all the doors bolted and no word of kindness given, so wicked were the people of that land."

After serving the two guest food and wine, Baucis noticed that, although she had refilled her guest´s beechwood cups many times, the pitcher was still full. Realising that her guests were gods, she and her husband "raised their hands in supplication and implored indulgence for their simple home and fare." Philemon thought of catching and killing the goose that guarded their house and making it into a meal, but when he went to do so, it ran to safety in Zeu´s lap. 

Zeus said they need not slay the goose and that they should leave the town. This was because he was going to destroy the town and all those who had turned them away and not provided due hospitality. He told Baucis and Philemon to climb the mountain with him and Hermes, not to turn back until they reached the top.

Io and the Mythology

Io was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos, a nymph who was seduced by Zeus, who changed her into a heifer to escape detection. His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus Panoptes, with 100 eyes, to guard her, but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him. Heifer Io was loosed to roam the world, stund by a maddening gadfly sent by Hera, and wandered to Egypt, thus placing her descendant Belus in Egypt; his sons Cadmus and Danaus would then "return" to mainland Greece.

The ancients connected Io with the Moon, and in Aeschylus´Prometheus Bound, where Io encounters Prometheus, she refers to herself as "the horned virgin", both bovine and lunar. 

Heracles

Heracles was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alemene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae and a champion of the Olimpian order against chthonic monsters. 

In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central Mediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well.

Climate change

Climate change is a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging frome decades to millions of years. It may be a change in average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions (i.e. more or fewer extreme weather events).

Scientists actively work to understand past and future climate by using observations and theoretical models. The most general definition of climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause. Accordingly, fluctuations over periods shorter than a few decades, such as "El Niño", do not represent climate change.



Human Fate

If you have a dream, you must follow it because we need to believe in something or somebody to go on in our lifes.

Accidents will happen, but we have to fight to be stronger than these circunstances.

Up the life!

Amun-Ra

 

Amun also Amon, Amen, Zeus or Jupiter, was a local deity of Thebes. He was attested since the Old Kingdom together with his spouse Amaunet. With the 11th dynasty (c. 21st century BC), he rose to the position of patron deity of Thebes by replacing Monthu.

After the rebellion of Thebes against the Hyksos and with the rule of Ahmose I, Amun acquired national importance, expressed in his fusion with the Sun god, Ra, as Amun-Ra.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043-1099) was a Castilian nobleman and military leader in medieval Spain. He was called El Cid (the Lord) by the Moors and El Campeador (the Campion) by Christians. He is the national hero of Spain.

Born a member of the minor nobility, el Cid was brought up at the court of the Spanish Emperor Ferdinand the Great and served in the household of Prince Sancho de Vivar rose to become commander and the royal standard-bearer of Castile upon Sancho´s ascension in 1065.

Babieca or Bavieca was El Cid´s warhorse. Several stories exist about El Cid and Babieca. A weapon traditionally identified as El Cid´s sword, Tizona, used to be displayed in the Army Museum in Toledo.