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Myths and legends about Owls

There is a legend about the origin of the day and the night; the legend says that day was created by the wish of a rabbit while the night was created by an owl; this animal is nocturnal, that is the reason why it prefers to live in the dark; this legend was created by the Native Americans long time ago.

Also there are a lot of myths about this enigmatic animal, owls are described as mysterious, sinister, and funeral animals, but in my opinion they are awesome, wise and completely majestic. The most of the myths about owls tells that they are friends of the death, so people see owls like something negative, but those are only superstitions, anyway I think death is something natural and it is part of the life, I don’t see this as something bad, for me it is more intriguing and melancholy, and I love melancholy things like being alone in a deep forest.

Owls have particular big eyes which make them more intriguing, his deep eyes make them look mysterious, besides they have beautiful wings and tail with gorgeous feathers which function as camouflage depending on the place where owls live. Owls fly nimbly and powerfully, imposed on their prey while they elegantly decorate the most amazing woods.

Those are the reasons why owls are enigmatic and they are full of myths and legends all over the world.

The revenge of the owl

For more information about this, go to:
-Myths about owls

http://www.pauldfrost.co.uk/intro_o2.html

-Legend "Origin of the day and the night"

http://people.tribe.net/babd6cd0-8b22-40d4-8279-597dd2c0c673/blog/1a52b951-d5c3-43bb-bb80-61f3b4f96607

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Myth: Apollo & Cassandra

Apollo and Cassandra’s myth is one of many interesting ancient Greek myths.

It talks about the ancient Greek god, Apollo, one of Zeus sons, and Cassandra, a priestess from the city of Troy.

In ancient Greece, the citizens used to make temples to worship their different gods, each temple was dedicated to only one god. Every town had many temples. Apollo enjoyed visiting all the temples built in his honor.

The most famous temple dedicated to Apollo was the temple at Delphi, because that was where Apollo’s special oracle was located.

In the city of Troy they had built a very special and splendid temple for Apollo, so he decided to go and take a look on how the special temple was. There Apollo saw Cassandra, a beautiful young woman with great ambition. They stared at each other. Apollo was stunned by Cassandras’ beauty, and Cassandra got attracted by Apollo’s power and beauty as well.

Apollo was so delighted by her beauty that he decided to make a deal with her. Apollo was very fond of making deals. He offered to Cassandra that if she would give him a kiss, he would give her the gift of “prophecy”, she would be able to see the future. Immediately Cassandra accepted the deal, so he kissed him and Apollo gave her the ability to see into the future. Now she was able to see the future and the first thing she saw was not a very pleasant one! She saw Apollo helping to destroy her beloved city of Troy. She was so angry that she spitted over Apollo’s face. Apollo could not take away his gift, but he could add something to it, so he did. And what he added was that Cassandra was going to be able to see the future, but no one would believe a thing she said.

For more information about this myth, check out the following link: 

http://greece.mrdonn.org/greekgods/cassandra.html

Myths

                                                Pókemon Suicides Myth

The Lavender Town Syndrome (also known as "Lavender Town Tone" or "Lavender Town Suicides") was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, back in February 27, 1996.

Rumors say that these suicides and illness only occurred after the children playing the game reached Lavender Town, whose theme music had extremely high frequencies, that studies showed that only children and young teens can hear, since their ears are more sensible.

Due to the Lavender Tone, at least two-hundred children supposedly committed suicide, and many more developed illnesses and afflictions. The children who committed suicide usually did so by hanging or jumping from heights. Those who did not acted irrationally complained of severe headaches after listening to Lavender Town's theme.

Although Lavender Town now sounds differently depending on the game, this mass hysteria was caused by the first Pokémon game released. After the Lavender Tone incident, the programmers had fixed Lavender Town's theme music to be at a lower frequency, and since children were no longer affected by it.

For mor information please visit: 

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lavender%20Town%20Syndrome

http://www.scaryforkids.com/lavender-town/

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Today's blog is going to be about a book I just read, published by Anne Fortier in 2011, this novel is about a young woman who discover that he is descendant of Julieta Capuleto (from Romeo and Julieta) but there is a big mistery behind everything, when she starts her investigation she discover that the real name of Julieta is Giulietta Tolomei, and she is from Siena not from Verona, this novel has a lot of everything, romance, mistery, tragedy, is a medieval and contemporary story... Everyone who read this novel will be delighted whit the debut of this brilliant writer.

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Health and technology

Food for Africa

From the medical school Washington University, he founded a therapeutic program to fight against the serious malnutrition problem which impact to around 20 million children under 5 years old in all the world. They created a packet which contain already done food (also know as RUTF ready-to-use- therapeutic food) it contains peanuts, vegetal oil, milk in powder form, vitamins, minerals and sugar. 

This feed is delivered to many countries with raised malnutrition levels like Malawi, Niger, Mali, Ethiopia, India, Somali and Sudan through supporting organizations.

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