Monstrous and evil anthropomorphic giant of Cantabrian mythology with only one eye like the Greek cyclopes and with ten fingers on each limb. It feeds on fruits of the field, acorn, corn, bats and what it steals from fishermen, farmers and ranchers. In the winter it knocks down trees, destroys bridges, uproots rocks and opens ravines. Its female is the ojáncana , which they also call jáncana or juáncana of which children who get lost in the forest should be very careful.
Also abalone, sea ear, Venus ear and donkey macaw. Univalve edible sea snail whose shell, very showy and pearly inside, has been since time very appreciated. I recently read some comments by Carl Sagan, the astrophysicist who opened the doors of the universe to us, about the death of Hypatia, the philosopher and mathematician of Alexandria. She said that fanatical Christians followers of Cyril of Alexandria would have dismembered and cracked her with abalone and oyster shells. Deliver us God, Allah or whoever is from your fanatics.
It is also used with the third person: Who does not know it to buy it. Saying taken from an Andalusian tale about a donkey, collected by Juan Valera and Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber). He reproaches someone who despite appearances is a phony like the donkey in the story who was actually a student, according to Uncle Candido.
Diminutive something derogatory of graecus, grieguecillo . This is how the Romans called Emperor Hadrian, who from his first formation had a predilection for Greek literature, language and culture. Despite being born in Italica like his uncle Trajan and perhaps Theodosius in the province of Baetica near Hispalis, he was one of the emperors preferred by the Greeks. His outward appearance with manicured beard resembled him to a Greek philosopher.
This is how they call in my land Alistana asturleonesa to the bran that in other areas they also say afrecho, moyuelo or cascarilla. It is the husk of ground cereals, especially wheat and rye, with part of the flour that was intended for animal consumption, because the bread was made with the sifted wheat flour and therefore without the husk.
Syncopation, very common in my land and elsewhere, drinking, participle of drinking. Among my childhood memories are three cows, the red, the pretty and the brunette. The red used to give birth for winter and to raise the jack better from time to time I gave her a drink that, at the direction of my father, I prepared for her. In a water cellar he mixed a can of salvos. He drank it in a jiffy and relayed the remains of the ground rye on the sides of the roadstead and looked at me with his huge eyes as if to say: I like it, give me more.
Bread of the poor, rye bread, less white than wheat but with the same nutritional power despite its appearance. It has had the historical disadvantage of being contaminated by ergot (claviceps purpurea) especially in rainy years, which caused the fire of San Antonio with convulsions, hallucinations, blackening of the limbs and even death because its alkaloids are vasoconstrictors. Many pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago improved because in Castile white wheat bread used to be eaten. Rye and barley were for animals.
Gentilicio de Osma, Soria town attached to Burgo de Osma, of just over 1000 inhabitants, located next to Cerro Castro, settlement of the Arévaco-Roman city of Uxama Argaela, which the Visigoths changed in Oxoma or Osoma and the Arabs in Waxsima. Uxama Argaela was a mansio of the Calzada Antoniniana XXVII about 24 miles east of Clunia on the way to Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza).
Gentilicio de Clunia , toponym arévaco para cerro , colina , otero . For the Romans Colonia Clunia Sulpicia, important city of the province of Tarragona, located south of the province of Burgos between the current towns of Coruña del Conde and Peñalba de Castro on the banks of the Arandilla River, which flows into the Duero in Aranda.
Also tektite . From the Greek tektos, melted, melted. Mineral crystallized surely by the high temperatures of meteorite impacts on earth millions of years ago. A special type of tektite is the green moldavite, present in the basin of the Vltava River in southern Bohemia, to which they also attribute therapeutic virtues.
Gentilicio de Roa, until a few years ago Roa de Duero, mucicipio burgalés near Aranda de Duero, of just over 2. 000 inhabitants, settled on the vaccea population of Rauda on the banks of the Douro, mansio of the route XXVII of the itinerary of Antonino, located between Clunia and Pintia.
The one who or what he makes cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts, cuts something, sections something to isolate it or highlight it over the rest. In bullfighting, bullfighter who dodges the onslaught of a bull with courage and the simple agility and flexibility of his body, turning his ribbons and piriuetas into a spectacle. Surely these were the true trends of Minoan bullfighting.
Dualistic Christian sect of Manichean tendency, initiated in the seventh century in the eastern areas of the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia, Armenia, Bulgaria, then spread throughout the Balkans. Some of his ideas are present in the Bogomils and later Cathars. The name, paulikianoi in Greek, which refers to Paul or Paul, although we do not know exactly to whom, received it from their enemies.
Greek sport of antiquity antecedent of football or perhaps better of rugby because the hands could also be used. They also called it phaininda and some trace their practice back to 2. 000 to . C . There are graphic testimonies in some ceramic and bas-reliefs and of course the literary ones. It was practiced a lot in Sparta encouraging teamwork. The ball may have been a swollen pig's bladder lined with leather or rags.
Let the die be rolled. This would be what Julius Caesar actually said, according to Plutarch, before crossing the Rubicon. And it is certainly plausible, for Caesar knew Greek perfectly well and sometimes used it. The original expression is from Menander, a Greek comedian, of the fourth century BC. C . , one of Caesar's favorites. The Latin version, better known, of "alea iacta est" is offered by Suetonius. In what there is no doubt is that afterwards our general launched with his XIII Gemina legio against Rome.
Latin adverbial phrase also used in jurisprudence with the sense of in benefit or own benefit, in favor of oneself, watching over its own, with interested views. It is taken from the title of a speech by Cicero against Clodius in 57 BC. C . on his return from exile in which he demanded the return of his house that had been demolished by his political enemy and his band of thugs.
Also Teia and Tea. Alleged ancient solar system planet that, according to scientists, would have collided with earth about 4 years ago. 500 million years ago, from whose remains and terrestrial debris the Moon would have formed. The name assigned by scientists of the theory of the great impact has mythological origin, because Theia or Theia was a Titan mother of the goddess Selene.
