Friday, February 06, 2009
Rubrica del Lunedì special edition: da Appunti Digitali
http://www.appuntidigitali.it/3213/ma-lenergia-pulita-e-veramente-pulita/
Commenti e critiche ben graditi
Monday, February 02, 2009
Rubrica del Lunedi`: Da Appunti Digitali
Per chi e` interessato potete leggere un mio intervento sul blog Appunti Digitali a
questo indirizzo:
http://www.appuntidigitali.it/3170/qual-e-il-vero-allarme-energia-o-ambiente/
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Cevapcici western
There was a land
A land of champions
A land called Yugoslavia
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boys
And god I know I'm one
Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
I've lost my soul, on glory alleluyah
Down in Yugoslavia
Land of Champions, Magnifico
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Sinterklaas, episode III: Revenge of de Sint
So this is Christmas.
And it's then normal ending for this esalogy of Sinterklaas to see what went wrong when Sinterklaas crossed the Ocean and went to America.
In fact the figure of the Santa Claus is heavily based on the character of Saint Nicholas, and especially in his Dutch version Sinterklaas.
History say that when they went to America, Dutch conquerors and settlers brought with them their traditions and habits, and within them, Sinterklaas.
Then, during the American War of Independence, the inhabitants of New York City, the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, reinvented their Sinterklaas tradition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city's non-English past.
The name itself of Santa Claus is supposedly derived from the old Dutch form Sinte Klaas.
Despite the fact that this historical reconstruction is not supported by all the experts, it is supported by me (and many others).
But of course also the traditionally Christian Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas, is in turn a clone (as all he Christian characters I may say).
The features of Saint Nicholas, a greek bishop pretty popular in Germanic Countries, is in fact molded from the casting of Wotan, the Germanic version of the chief god in Norse paganism Odin.
Odin, as his alter ego Sinterklaas, is often depicted as a old man, with a long beard, a hat and a stick in the hand.
He's ridings his eight-legged white horse Sleipnir, a grand-grandfather of het wit paard van Sinterklaas.
Also the character of Zwarte Piet, Sinterklaas' helper, in the Medioeval traditios was bearing a lot of similarities in role with Odin's ravens Hugin and Munin.
Finally, late Roman historians, such as Tacitus, used to refer to Odin by using the name of Mercury since they shared features and roles.
Ergo: Ermes is Santa Claus.
(This could explain my childish confusion in understanding the meaning of Santa Claus.)
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