The talisman of the sun

According to an ancient Egyptian tradition, this provides a good luck talisman that leads him and it preserves all kinds of diseases. Power relations in social, so it can be an effective magical object to succeed in the material should be recorded on metal gold.

On the front, the central circle symbolizes eternity and the five-pointed star, accompanied by mystical symbols, attracts good fortune. On the reverse, the center of a six-pointed star (the star of Solomon) is occupied by an Egyptian head. The letters that surround the star are a spell that appoints Pi-RHE, "the genius of the Sun."
The talisman must be manufactured a day Sunday morning.

Fetishism in history

The oldest cultures include fetishism as one of the strongest demonstrations and entrenched. Some tribes in Africa or the Amazon adorn their sexual organs, sometimes for religious reasons, others by aesthetics.

In East is widespread custom of tattooing. Complications figures and ornaments cover the body.
Hence, there is only one step to reach the western makeup that women use to highlight or disguising their factions, trying to highlight their beauty and become more desirable for men. The same goes with other elements such as earrings, jewelry, hairstyles ... all of them, common elements in many communities,
in one way or another.

Religion is not excluded from this list.
In Mexico is worshipped with some clay figurines of sexual organs disproportionate, and attitudes completely explicit.
The Egyptians made representations with the divinities male phallus outside his clothes.

And in Christianity are famous capitals of the Romanesque churches, which showed relationships between women, men and beasts. The faculty of ashlar Cathedral of Oviedo is known for having sizes and today could be described as pornography.

Death in East

Without reaching extremes such as the Egyptians, who believed he had to preserve the body for access to another life and was buried the dead with all kinds of luxuries, other civilizations distant devised their own ceremonies in accordance with their conception of order life in this world.

In ancient China, when he was dying shaved head, he washed the body and was placed in a sitting position so that the soul could leave the body. In Christianity, is prepared to acquit going to die from their sins and giving the extremaunción.

Once the dead person, friends and family asked him to return the soul to make sure they leave the body had been short, and he tapaban orifices of the body with jade so that in this way, it could drive away evil spirits.

Other examples of amulets, would be the cross or the sacred bread of Christianity, or the figures of cattle cardboard stone surrounding the corpse at funerals animist Bali.

A Muslim custom requires that the dead must be buried facing Mecca. For its part, funerals Hindus perform a funeral procession at the place where the deceased is cremated. When this happens, the widow bows down before the funeral pyre (formerly just some burning in it, today is sometimes sacrificed a goat during the procession), and the remains of the deceased are released to the waters of a sacred river.

In Hinduism should also be one of the most famous mausoleums: the Taj Mahal in Agra built for the daughter of the Shah and Jaham in which about 20,000 people worked.

Mysteries of Christmas

Mysteries of the navidad and the solstice of Winter. A lot before the coming of the Christianity, the plants and trees that remained green the whole year they had a special meaning for people during the winter. People of the antiquity hung up paths of everlasting flowers, plants of perennial sheets, in their gates and windows. In many towns it was believed that they withdrew witches, phantoms, bad spirits and illnesses.

In the Celtic culture, the festivity of the winter solstice received the name of Yule. Yule designates the moment in that the wheel of the year is in its lower moment, prepared to ascend again. In Scandinavia the tradition existed of celebrating Yule with dances and parties. A pig was also sacrificed in honor of Frey, god of the love and the fertility that it controlled the time and the rain according to the belief. During the festivity of Yule it was traditional to burn the trunk of Yule, a long tree trunk that went afire slowly during the whole season of celebrations, in honor of the birth of the new sun. Of that tradition the pastries proceed in trunk (trunks of chocolate) form that nowadays eat up in Christmas.

The old ones Celtic they believed that the tree represented a power, and that that power protected and he/she helped to the tree. The sacred forests served like temple to the German ones. For the Gauls, the oak was a tree sacred envelope the one that the druidas, priests Celtic guardians of the traditions, picked up the mistletoe following a sacred rite. This tradition, inherited through the centuries, it served as inspiration for the current tree of Christmas.

In the North hemisphere, the shortest day and the longest night in the year he/she falls the 21 or 22 of December and it is known as winter solstice. Old many civilizations believed that the Sun was a god and that the winter it arrived every year because that he/she got sick and it weakened. They celebrated the solstice because it meant that the god Sun finally began to be alleviated. The greenery of the sheets of everlasting flowers reminded them that all the plants would grow again when the god Sun was strong and he/she returned the summer.

The old Egyptians adored to the god Ra who had the head of a hawk and it used in the sun as a radiant disk in their krona. In the solstice, when Ra began to recover of the illness, the Egyptians filled their houses with green buds of palm that symbolized for them the victory of the life about the death.

The first Romans marked the solstice with a called party Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn, the god of the agriculture. They knew that the solstice meant that soon the farms and orchards would be green and full with fruits. To point out the occasion, they decorated their homesteads and temples with paths of everlasting flowers.

In the North of Europe, mysterious Druidas, the Celtic priests of the old ones, also decorated their temples with paths of everlasting flowers, as a symbol of the eternal life. The ferocious Vikings from Scandinavia thought that the everlasting flowers were the special plants of the god Sun, Balder.

He/she is allocated Germany the started book credit the tradition of the tree of Christmas. It was during the century Sixteen that the devote Christian began to arrange trees decorated in their homesteads.

It is believed that Martin Lutero, the Protestant reformer, was who first arranged power on candles to a tree. It counts the legend that, walking to house a winter night, it was surprised by the brilliance of the stars, flashing among the near trees. To reproduce the beautiful scene to their family, it arranged a tree in the main room of the house, it installed him/her wires in their paths to sustain power on candles and he/she said that it would be a symbol of the Christmas beautiful sky.

Another legend says that people from Germany merged two customs that had been practiced in different areas of the world: the tree of the Paradise, a fir decorated with apples that it represented the tree of the Knowledge in the Garden of the Paradise and Luz of Christmas, a frame in a pyramidal way, usually decoration with glass realms, tinsel and a candle in the tip that was the symbol of Christ's birth like Luz of the World.

Changing the apples of the tree for tinsel realms, adding cookies of diverse physiques and merging this new tree with Luz arranged in the tip, the German created the tree of Christmas that we know now, called Tannenbaum.

Prawns

The the ethnic different kitchens, the prawns are always outstanding and the same as the shrimps, occupy a place weighted in the culinary world art. As it is the birthplace, or if they come from fresh waters or of the sea, different sizes and forms of the same ones exist. Now then in general, all the shellfish require of a very careful manipulation to decompose quickly and to be able to cause severe intoxications. Its usage, dates of prehistoric periods, for example the Egyptians, the Carthaginians, Phoenicians and Roman they used them so much raw as preserved. But, the up-to-date techniques of fishing, of conservation and of freezing they have contributed enough for the great broadcast of their use in the gastronomic environment. In salads with mayonnaise, fried, muffled, in brochettes, macerated with different flavors or like part of paellas, the prawns and shrimps always add flavor and color to the foods.

This is the prescription to obtain them impeccable in any food.

Ingredients (for 4 portions)
20 raw prawns, the juice of 1 file, some drops of tabasco sauce, 3 olive oil spoonfuls, 1 spoonful of chopped cilantro, 1 egg white, panko to muffle, sunflower oil to fry.
For the mango tree guacamole and sweet potato: 1 mango tree, 1 onion green red, half pepper, 1 pungent chili, 1 clove of garlic, cilantro, salt and pepper.
For the stiffening: half cup of mayonnaise, 1 cup of natural yogurt and file scraping.

Procedure
1 to clean the prawns taking out him/her the head and the shell of the body but leaving the queue. To macerate them during 30 minutes with 1 mixture of file juice, tabasco, oleum and cilantro.
2 to boil the peeled sweet potato and to cut it in cubes, to reduce it to puree with the peeled mango tree and to bind to the sweet potato. To add the remainder of the chopped ingredients. To season and to reserve in the cooler.
3 to blend the ingredients of the stiffening and to reserve in the cooler.
4 to drain the prawns of the maceration and to dry them with kitchen paper, to hardly go them by the white combing and later for the panko.
5 to fry them in warm abundant oleum until gilding. To drain them on kitchen paper.
6 to serve the prawns with the mango tree guacamole and sweet potato; and the stiffening of mayonnaise and yogurt.