A estrela argéada, tamen coñecida como "Sol vergina" é un símbolo de dezaseis raios, descuberta no ano 1977, nunhas excavacións arqueolóxicas en Vergina, Macedonia. Descuberta nun cofre dourado na tumba dos reis da antiga Macedonia. Dise que o cofre onde apareceu pertencía ao rei Filipo II, pai de Alexandre Magno.
A estrela argéada según dín, ten varios significados, pero case todos optan pola hipótese relixiosa, que representaba os doce deuses do olimpo.
Na actualidade é un símbolo da antiga cultura Macedonia e a Grecia actual. O cofre está exposto no Museo Arquelóxico de Vergina.
An Olive Wreath was the distinction (or the prize) for the winers of the Olympic Games. The Old Olympic Games were series of athletic competitions disputed by representatives of different greek city-states. The first Olympic Games were organized by the ancient greeks in Olympia, in 776 B.C. The Olympic Games were celebrated every four years. At that time in Olympic Games there were less events and only free men who spoke greek can compete, the Games were always celebrated at the same place. The last Old Olympic Games were celebrated in 393 AD, almost twelve centuries after their beginnings. Before the adoption of christianity as official religion of the Roman Empire, the emperor Teodosio banned all the pagan celebrations, and the Olympic Games are included in that group.The olive wreath consists in a siege of olive's branches, previously cut with a golden knife, the person who cut the siege was a twelve year old boy, but his parents had to be alive. The winers were proclaimed heroes in their cities too, and the State paid their feeding for lifetime.
Now, the winers get medals and prizes from their respective Olympic Committees, but the olive wreath was reused in the Olympic Games of Greece, in 2004.
OLIVE WREATH
THE ORIGINS OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND THE OLIVE WREATH
OLIVE WREATH REUSED IN OLYMPIC GAMES IN GEECE 2004
A pyramid is a structure with a square base and four sloping triangular sides that meet at one point. Pyramids were royal tombs and considered the place of ascent for the spirit of the pharaoh. Transporting stones for build a pyramid were very difficult. Sciences discovered that they made the sand wet and, then, they transported the stones, because this made the sand harder and so, they only had to use a half of strength. There aren’t many documents and we know almost nothing about the constructive methods used in the pyramids.
Truly, there aren’t a lot of traps in a pyramid. Some of them consist on camouflage passages and chambers. They didn't want to defend the chambers. They wanted to protect them.
One of the chambers inside a pyramid was the chamber of the pharaoh. In this chamber we can find the mummified body of the pharaoh inside a sarcophagus. In other chamber there were paintings in the walls and goods like gold, jewelers, figures of gods, objects that were important for the pharaoh... There were more chambers like the chamber where we can found the woman of the pharaoh… One of the most famous pyramids is the pyramid of Guiza where we can find the chamber of the pharaoh Keops.
A Polaroid camera prints photos in a few minutes after having taken them. Samuel Shlafrock was the first who invented this kind of camera in 1923, but the scientist Edwin Land made the first commercial instant camera in 1948. In 2008 Polaroid bankrupted and it stopped making instant films and cameras, it closed down the factories, and 450 workers lost their jobs. Polaroid was bought by PLR Holdings and it uses the Polaroid brand to make different products related to instant cameras, for example one made to Fuji Instax.
The russian matrioskas have their origin on the japanese lands and it wasn't until the late nineteenth century when they arrived in the Siberian country. There are several theories about the way that they arrived in Russia like these ones: they arrived to a toy story in Moscow as the figure of Fukurum and the owner of the store adapted them to the Russian store, it was during an art japanese exhibition and they were a divine representation of Fukurokuju...
But the truth is that these dolls weren't born in Russia, like all of we think, they were imported to Japan and then, they were adapted to Russian culture.
Their name come from the name more common of Russian girls: Matriona, and for adapt these dolls to the customs and culture of Russia, they were called Matrioshka. About them
The Matrioskas simbolize the maternity, fertility and the symbol of Russian land. The fact that the small dolls are inside from the bigger ones is because they symbolize the fact that the mother gives birth a daughter, the daughter gives birth to another daughter and sucessively. They are usually made from wood and the trees that are used to make this dolls are cut in the month of April because they have more wisdom. After been cut in blocks and processed for a least of two years, a wood master makes the choice of pieces that will be used for the creation of the dolls and all dolls included in a Matrioska must be constructed from the same block of wood.
Los mayas utilizaban las máscaras de cerámica para representar cada Dios , para que su imagen quedara para la eternidad. Las personas que las usaban adquirían la personalidad y la entidad de cada Dios , querían preservar la eternidad para permanecer en la eterna presencia de los dioses.También se utilizaban para conservar el rostro de sus gobernantes. Los mayas diseñaron máscaras de jade, que se colocaban sobre el rostro del monarca cuando morían , para que los dioses lo reconocieran. Las máscaras fueron hechas con mosaicos , conchas o con cerámica. A los mayas le gustaban mucho el color azul y verde , y por eso muchas de sus máscaras son de ese color , algunas de ellas pesaban sobre 4-5 kilos.
The Acient Olimpic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of Greece city-states. The first Olympic was dated to 776 B.C in Olympia.
The Acient Olympic Games were every four years. In theese, there were less events than in Olympic Games and only could participate the men that spoke Greek. The prizes for the victors were olive leaf wreaths or crowns. The olive wreath was a branch of the wild olive tree that grew at Olympia interwined to form a circle or a horse shoe. The branches of the sacred wild-olive tree near the teample of Zeus were cut by a boy whose parents were both alive with a pair of golden scissors.
Then he took them to the teample of Hera and placed them on a gold-ivory table. From there, the judges of the Olympic Games would take them, make the wreaths and crown the winners of the Games. The olive wreath was introduced by Hercules in honor of his father Zeus. The last Acient Olympic Games was in 393 B.C, because the emperor Teodosio banned them.
