Does She Really Like Me?

Magazine Irueña No. 2: CANopen

On Friday 18 February, presented the second issue of the prehistory of La Palma "Irueña" completely dedicated to the inspiring vision of the night sky centered on the star Canopus.

The awara, like all other ancient peoples were great observers of the movements of the elements of the universe. In its effort to coordinate actions with the heavenly land, left evidence of their astronomical observations of cosmic ideas, the orientation of the buildings and their iconography. The guidance has become an ancient ritual to feel the need to be in a world organized cosmically. When something is designed, the space makes sense, heaven and earth meet and unite. It leaves the linear and cyclic enters eternity, one that is constantly repeated every year. Building on these provisions has given us many answers key.

What's so weird to say that the old canary worship nature, the sun, moon, stars, mountains, fountains, trees, wind ... and believed in a Supreme Being? Can a rock carving an image or model of the cosmos? A dominant and widespread image as a spiral, a circle, a loop or the thousands of combinations created by awara lead us to discover its arquetipología, which guides the knowledge to something more concrete, toward the point where the rising or setting sun in its extreme positions (solstices), intermediate (Equinox), the zenith, topographical references Bejenao Pico, Pico La Nieve, Risco Liso, Sulphur Mountain and the recently discovered: the star Canopus.

Canopus Twilight of the Pico Bejenao from the sacredness of the dam of La Fortaleza
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Canopus is a supergiant star Hemisphere South, from our position, we can always locate in the south near the horizon, between late August and early May. It's easy to find by their position, their size, constant flashes and changes color. Your worship is well documented in the Berber world, be an important part as the core of their worldview. According to the mythology of some North African peoples Canopus is the star of the sky, the oldest, the mother of all stars, key egg whose explosion created the universe we know (Pâques, 1956).

In this second issue of the journal "Irueña" has confirmed the existence of four impressive deposits of rock carvings in La Palma, one on the island of La Gomera, Las Toscas of Guirre-and another on the island of El Hierro-Julan-harmonized directed to Canopus.