lunes, 6 de febrero de 2012

El agua en el mundo


Trabajo realizado por las alumnas de 1º C Bac Lucía Dopico Tellado, Uxía Cabaleiro Rodriguez, Rosmery Soto Ramos

sábado, 4 de febrero de 2012

Snake Of Belelle´s River


In the City of Fene in Sillobre, particularly at the Black Well of Belelle´s Dam it lived a great winged serpent and covered withbroad scales. The snake slept at a rocked in the cradle of the river,wrapped with sheets of mud and reeds quilt and aquatic weeds. The waters
seemed to sing sweet lullabies.

The snake was very traveller.Their small wings could hardly withstand a large body skimming. With much training effort and the whole area could go to the beach of Cabanas. Some say that the unsatisfied maternal instinct was to take the nine waves, or perhaps nine
bathrooms, because kids never knew him.

Who saw it was terrified. Fear spread through the area andplanned to kill her. They met residents of several villages and decided to make a timber with a sharp stakes, as a sharp spears.
Loans, kneeling with the tips up, in the path of the serpent in the direction of Cabanas, where flying short and even, sometimes alighting to rest. And there was nailed. The cries of slow death of the animal were heard at great distances. The scales all your body's defense had been able to man, insatiable predator.

Now the Belelle´s waters don´t sing,they cry.


Written by Esperanza Piñeiro de San Miguel and Andrés Gómez Blanco, illustrated by J.M. González Collado

Translated by Sergio Avila Testa 1º “G” Bach

viernes, 3 de febrero de 2012

jueves, 2 de febrero de 2012

The monster of Ferrol harbour

THE MONSTER OF FERROL HARBOUR


Who hasn’t known anything about a mysterious tunnel which linked the local park and the Military Arsenal in Ferrol? It’s said that it even reached the fishing port, where a horrible monster lived there. That is one of the big number of fabulous tunnels with treasures, enchanted characters or even fearful beings.

Old fishermen describe the marine monster of Curuxeiras. They say it was a giant red conger eel with seven heads. It filled them with fear because fishing was frightened away by the monster and it also broke nets and rigs. Its strong tail could shake waters and generate huge waves capable of making crafts be wrecked. It lived hidden under the stones in the piers, and it roared through its seven heads during the storming days.

The number seven is a magic number like numbers three or nine. They constantly appear in the Galician traditions. Since antiquity, the number seven is symbolic and holy. In the Babylonian world map, the Heaven and the Earth are divided into seven parts. Seven were the Pleiades, the planets and the Great and the Little Bear stars, the rain winds, the plagues in Egypt and the years of abundance and drought, according to dreams from the seven fat and the seven thin cows. In Old East, with seven good spirits and another seven bad spirits, the tree of life has seven branches showing the total full. The legendary Mesopotamian cities of Uruc and Ecbatana were surrounded by seven walls with the seven rainbow’s colours. The Jewish candelabra has seven branches as well. In different cultures, the deity represents the omnipotence with seven fingers, and the omnipresence with seven eyes. There are seven Wises and seven Olympic gods in Greece. In the Christian tradition, seven are the days of the Creation, the sacraments, the deadly sins and the devils; in the Revelations from St. John there are even seven angels, seven trumpets, seven seals,... and seven are the pains of the Virgin too. Are not seven the wonders of the world or the cinema the seventh art? In the Pre-Romanesque, the juxtaposition of seven figures represented an undefined multitude. The constructive work from Fernán Pérez de Andrade, with seven bridges, seven churches, seven hospitals and seven monasteries was numerous and generous.

All in all, the number seven symbolizes multitude, grandeur, majesty, with maximum power or terror. That’s the reason why monsters are imagined to have seven heads, as the Phoenician snake Lothan; the biblical monster Leviatam, crowned over all of its heads, capable of making the stars fall down by using its tail; or even the terrible monster from the port of Ferrol.

This passage was written by Esperanza Piñeiro de San Miguel and Andrés Gómez Blanco, illustrated by J.M. González Collado, and translated by Ana López Durán (1º “G” Bach).