#also if it wasn't obvious the video is from the mascletá lol
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yesterday was book day, tell me something about a book you love 💖
bonus q: since it was also sant jordi... tell me about the moros i cristians festival (if you feel like ofc)
thank youuuu (este sí que es un ask de hoy jeje)
i feel i have the moral obligation to talk about ovid's heroids for the nth time because it's so!!!!
it's basically a collection of fictional letters heroines from greek and roman myths and stories (also some historical figures) are writing to their respective heros after they got abandoned / betrayed / etc, you get the gist. they're full of drama, and angst, and it's so good i had to stop myself everytime i read a letter to process everything that was happening lol.
here are some random extracts so you can see how they are, i'll also translate them to english for any non-spanish speaker who might see this :)
this is from the letter from briseis to achilles, in the letter she laments how he barely paid attention to her.
"and, however, i am not mad nor have behaved as a wife, me, a slave, very often called to her lord's bed. another slave - i remember - called me 'madam'. 'you are adding to my slavery - i told her - the burden of a name'."
this is from the letter from sappho to phaon (according to legend, sappho fell for this man but he didn't correspond her; distraught and heartbroken, she threw herself off a cliff and drowned).
"undoubtedly you will also be wondering why are my verses in groups of two, even if i am, truthfully, more expert in lyrical rythms: i have to cry for my love, and the elegiac poem is also tearful; no lyre is adequate for my tears".
this is from the letter from phaedra to hippolitus (phaedra, wife of theseus, fell in love with her son-in-law, hippolitus; the context of this extract is detailing the fact that hippolitus is a bastard so he has no right to the throne of athens, while phaedra gave theseus legitimate sons)
"oh, how i wish my guts had exploded in the middle of childbirth, knowing they were going to harm you, the most beautiful of beings!"
anyways, it's really good and i couldn't recommend it enough
this got a bit lengthy, so i'll put everything about moros i cristians below the cut lol
so, in my dad's hometown moros i cristians happens on the last weekend of april and it's part of the mare de deu de la salut celebrations; the first week has all the more traditional festivities stuff (processions, corridas, verbenas, etc) plus, on the night the festivities start they do the fogueres, which are basically just that, bonfires lit all over the town! apparently it all stems for this one big plague that happened in the town on the 15th century (i think) that was quelled by an apparition of the virgin mary (thus la mare de deu de la salut), the bonfires are a reminder of the bonfires set to burn the infected bodies and such
but then, the fun starts on the second weekend!!! there's when the moros i cristians stuff happens; everyone gets divided into these two factions (and within the faction there's groups and squads and all that jazz) and it's all very fun, everyone's drunk and happy and it's all great!! the festivities consists of formal parades (la entrada), informal parades (la volta), theatralized embassies (la embajada) and recreations of the battles with a lot of gunpowder that end in a mascletá and the baile de las banderas, where the winner (first the moors, then the christians) wave their flags and suff. there's also some minor processions and the last day, may 1st, is the 'día de la virgen', when the statue of the mare de deu de la salut goes back from the top of the mountain to the church, by night, and everyone is dressed up and with candles and it's super pretty!
here are some pics of me and my family's experience throughout the years :)
#ask#sunday asks#sorry for the long post!!!#anyways heroids is so good it's insane#also yes the heroids are technically fanfiction lol#also if it wasn't obvious the video is from the mascletá lol
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