myth, legends and stories
Fruits of the human imagination stories, legends, tales, fables and oral traditions are universal, and are transmitted between generations family within one of the most important educational and moral. All peoples, even the most primitive, at some point in their evolution have believed in supernatural forces whose actions have explained phenomena events. There are myths of creation, fertibilidad, culture, gods, heroes, life after death or end of the world. There are many myths and cultures that created them. Over time mythologies of different cultures are mixed together and spawned a new myth, which like the previous attempt to explain reality and to standards of conduct.
In the search for the interpretation of the events surrounding the man, the consciousness of death is that perhaps one of the most powerful forces. Death is the end, is the embodiment of nothing and as a symbol is scary is the certainty of the transience of life. Is a constant in all societies with their religions, fear of death and the desire for transcendence, ie to achieve immortality.
The death is relentless, supreme, infinite while life is fragile and fleeting. In all cultures the essence of life is a soul (soul, or spirit energy, ethereal) that Contu living after death, either be reborn or to acquire new forms of existence. The soul is the blood that vehicle in its essence is pure. This explains the central role played by blood in many beliefs, myths, rituals and magical-religious ceremonies. Who takes the blood of another spirit is fed and gets its energy, its special qualities, his youth and a higher power. Instead blood loss means not only death but lose eternal life. So what could be more frightening than a creature that feeds on blood?
Vampires are real or imaginary creatures that feed on blood from other technically are called bloodsuckers. The best known form of vampirism in the universal culture references undead that feed on blood of living beings, which are gradually weakening to die while the vampire is still "alive" with a lush looking, shiny hair, long nails, fluid and fresh blood running through his veins. This idea of \u200b\u200bvampirism is to be had in the Balkans particularly in Serbia, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the seventh century. It is perhaps one of the strongest influences in Bram Stoker to write in 1897 his famous novel "Dracula." Although Dracula is probably the best representation of a human vampire in the imagination of many cultures, vampires are deified as the goddess Kali Hindu deity of destruction.
The Columbian Mesoamerica found a set of nations and languages \u200b\u200bscattered over an extensive environmental mosaic whose range extends from arid and semi-arid to tropical sevate environments, ranging from sea level to the regions of perpetual snow more than six thousand feet above sea level, with nomadic gatherers and agricultural civilizacions. The worldview is essentially pre-Columbian Mesoamerican pateísta, where the universe and nature are central and not distinguishing the gods. The sun is the patron god and the moon is the mother, also associated with human fertility and the countryside.
Numerous plants and animals were depicted in the frescoes of the monuments, codices, pots and other recovered fragments that are clearly representations of gods or magical beings or just participate as messengers of the gods, thus, the jaguar represents the god Huehueteotl or old fire god, the butterflies are the souls of the dead, the owl portends death, the hummingbird represents Huitzilopoxhitli, etc. Bats were
(And remain still) an important place in the mythical beliefs, magic and religious to be considered as a dual deity, associated with fertility and death, light and darkness. For the peoples of the Mayan group are known as the god Zots, while home for the god is Tzinacan Nahuatl. In some parts of Veracruz is spoken as a nahual bat that feeds on blood. Most likely with the arrival of the English fused European and American myths relating the living-dead with some of the pre-Columbian deities and in particular with the bat that blood almienta to confirm (or perhaps lead) to be mythological, human vampire.
Vampires in literature, film and literature
vampire theme was developed in the literature, film and television from the successful literary B. Stoker's Dracula. Taking as a starting point this work have been written hundreds of stories. In 1922 the Nosferatus of Murnau is the beginning of a genre of films in relation to these deaths, living real monsters that require blood to retain eternal youth. Unlike other vampire fantasy. Dracula and his descendants represent lustful beings who prefer the blood of virgins mythical vampires while others may be perceived traits of homosexuality since they usually attack the members of the same sex. There have written about five hundred films and radio or television programs with themes of vampires or vampirism.
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