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Date Posted:
7/3/2006
4:03:01 pm EDT
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Singing Along In A Lively City Of The Dead
Author: Oakland Ross Source: The Toronto Star (Canada)
Title: SINGING ALONG IN A LIVELY CITY OF THE DEAD
In the city of the dead, she is the uncontested queen.
Her name is Amelia Goyri de Adot, and she is better known to Cubans as la Milagrosa or the Miraculous One.
Never mind that she has been dead for more than 100 years. In this tropical land pervaded by saints, spirits and superstitions, a deceased person is by no means a defunct person.
Just the opposite, in fact.
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| It Makes Me Wonder | Jul 4th. at 2:21:51 pm EDT
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arinna (Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina) - Email Me
How many Gods and Goddesses were originally people who lived and died and were venerated by their ancestors for so many generations that eventually their human roots were lost to antiquity and they became something more.
Was there once a human Grandmother Athena who really did invent the art of weaving and taught her children so much that for generations after her death they still called out to her whenever they needed wise guidance?
Was Zeus once a great leader who happened to cheat on his wife a lot? He certainly wasn't the last leader to do that. If we didn't have written language to keep our history from changing as it's repeated from generation to generation, would JFK eventually become another Zeus? (at least among democrats anyway)
There are some who've almost deified Elvis already. Is this how it started for Apollo before he became the God of the Sun and Music? I wonder if he gyrated his hips when he played his Lyre.
I think the idea appeals to me because it means that in our past, people cared for their departed loved ones for a very long time and honored them so much that they made them Gods. They passed on their accomplishments and legends and loves and trials and foibles so that all of us could learn from them. They kept them alive in their hearts and souls.
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