MYTHOLOGY: HADES

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More Greek stuff. I need to read more about Nordic mythology, but I have no time LOL /cries
 Hades was the King of the Underworld, the god of death and the dead. He presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. He was also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth, from the fertile soil with nourished the seed-grain, to the mined wealth of gold, silver and other metals.
 Hades was devoured by Kronos as soon as he was born, along with four of his siblings. Zeus later caused the Titan to disgorge them, and together they drove the Titan gods from heaven and locked them away in the pit of Tartaros. When the three victorious brothers then drew lots for the division of the cosmos, Hades received the third portion, the dark dismal realm of the underworld, as his domain. Hades desired a bride and petitioned his brother Zeus to grant him one of his daughters. The god offered him Persephone, the daughter of Demeter. However, knowing that the goddess would resist the marriage, he assented to the forceful abduction of the girl. When Demeter learned of this, she was furious and caused a great dearth to fall upon the earth until her daughter was returned. Zeus was forced to concede lest mankind perish, and the girl was fetched forth from the underworld. However, since she had tasted of the pomegranate seed on the Underworld, she was forced to return to him for a portion of each year.
 Source:  http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html

That's it :B

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MYTHOLOGY: PANDORA'S BOX

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OK, starting with the mythology thing. I'll write every single Saturday of my life from now on (unless I need to do something else, but I'll tell you).
This week's myth: Pandora's Box: 



At one time the only mortals on the earth were men. Prometheus had made them, Athene had breathed life into them and Zeus did not like them.
One day Prometheus was trying to solve a quarrel that was raging between the gods and the men. At a festival the men were going to sacrifice a bull for the first time. They asked him which parts of the bull should be offered to the gods and which should be eaten by men. Prometheus decided to play a trick on Zeus. He killed the bull, skinned it and butchered it. He split it into two portions, in one he put the best, lean meat. In the second he put bones followed by a thick layer of fat, and then offered both to Zeus to take his choice. Zeus looked at both portions, one looked good but was rather on the small side, the other was much larger and covered in a layer of fat which Zeus felt must cover the best, tastiest portion of meat. He chose that one. When Zeus realised that he had been tricked he was furious. He took fire away from man so that they could never cook their meat or feel warm again.
Prometheus flew to the Isle of Lemnos where he knew Hephaestus had fire and carried a burning torch back to man. Zeus swore vengeance and started making an evil plan:he set Hephaestos the task of creating a clay woman with a human voice. Hephaestos worked and worked and created a masterpiece. Athene, goddess of wisdom and Zeus' daughter liked the clay figure and she breathed life into it. She taught the woman how to weave and clothed her. Aphrodite the goddess of love made her beautiful. The god Hermes taught her to charm and deceive.
Zeus  named the woman Pandora and sent her as a gift to Epimetheus. Epimetheus had been warned by his brother Prometheus that he should never accept gifts from Zeus because there would always be a catch, but he fell in love with Pandora and married her. Zeus, pleased that his trap was working, gave Pandora a wedding gift of a beautiful box. There was one condition however...that was that she never opened the box.
For a while they were very happy. Pandora often wondered what was in the box but she was never left alone so she never opened it. Gradually over a while she began to wonder more and more what was in the box. She could not understand why someone would send her a box if she could not see what was in it. 
Finally she could stand it no longer. One day when everyone was out she crept up to the box, took the huge key, fitted it carefully into the lock and turned it. She lifted the lid to peep in but before she realised it the room was filled with terrible things: disease, despair, malice, greed, old age, death, hatred, violence, cruelty and war. She slammed the lid down and turned the key again...keeping only the spirit of hope inside.
Source: http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/carolrb/greek/pandora.html

Pandora (opening the box) by J.W. Waterhouse

That's it, I hope you like it because I can't be sure, no one says anything to me :)
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BRAZILIAN CULTURE: THE LEGEND OF THE DIAMOND

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I just remembered a cute native legend. I wish more people know this. Seems that the majority of Brazilians aren't proud of their culture :(
A looong time ago, there was a tribe of natives living next to a river. In this tribe, there was a couple: Itagibá and Potira. Itagibá, which means strong arm, was a warrior and Potira, which means flower, was a young and beautiful Indian woman. One day they started a war with another tribe and Itagibá had to fight. Potira waited a long time beside the river. One day, she was informed that her husband died in the war. By having this news, Potira lost his temper he had held so far and spent the rest of his life crying incessantly. His tears mixed with the white sands of the river. Her immense pain impressed Tupã, the king of the gods, who turned Potira's tears into diamonds, to perpetuate the memory of her great love. 
 I didn't find good images about ths legend, so I' just putting a picture of a Indian girl ^-^

That's it :)

YAY today I finished reading Hunger Games and studied Swedish, Norwegian and Italian *u*

A friend of mine just turned 17 and she wants to watch The Avengers again LOL obviously I'm going with her. Tomorrow will be a good day, I think :)
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BRAZILIAN CULTURE: FESTA JUNINA

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 I just realized I didn't write about Brazilian stuff here. Not even a singe time. Ouch. 
Today I had a party/festival at school and I had a really good time so I'm going t talk about that. The name of the festival is Festa Junina (June Festival) or Festa de São João  for their part in celebrating the nativity of St. John the Baptist. There's lots of typical foods and dances and all and we wear typical (?)* clothes.
 The fact is: we have so much fun there. A friend of mine recorded the dancing thing, I'll ask her to send me the video so I can post it here, because I just have some pictures. :)

 This is Mary 〷◠‿◠〷 (and some other people, obviously) We were in the classroom at that time (yeah, we had lessons today)

 Mary, Victor, Vinícius, @ZombieBride_ and @Kellimy:B

Kellimy drew Tony Stark's beard on @YukitosSan LOL

 Vick, Kellimy, Mary and @janahpereira

 Kellimy LOL

Kellimy, Vick, Moacir (our Math teacher LOL), me and Mary


That's it. I'll post the video soon (I hope).
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*I don't think people really dressed like that, mostly because of the colors of the clothes. They just don't look like something that someone would wear to work.

Flags

 I was searching for flags and then I found this wonderful website with lots of flags and a little text about each one *-*
 It includes flags of countries, international organizations, political movements, etc. It's really cool if you like history, geography and politics. 
 I'll start writing real texts tomorrow, I think. I hope. XD
That's it.
Bye :)