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.



Avalon

Avalon (probably from the Welsh word afal, meaning apple) is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth´s 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Begum Britanniae ("The History of the Kings of Britain") as the place where King Arthur´s sword Excalibur (Caliburnus) was forged and later where Arthur was taken to recover from his wounds after the Battle of Camlann. Avalon was associated from an early date with mystical practices and people such as Morgan le Fay.