The Ancient World, the great cultures and civilizations of the past, had valid, among its great cosmogonic myths, the controversial subject of the Ages.
A Golden Age of humanity –myth, in which the great Romanian hermeneut Mircea Eliade also introduced the concept of the eternal return– was always followed by a Dark or Black Age, which made man, decidedly pessimistic, to warn, in his despair, the dreaded end of the world.
Today, confined to our homes by a deadly threat, a pandemic known as coronavirus or covid-19, we are witnessing a drama, to which many of the generations that preceded us have also been subjected.
As brutal or even more than this, the black plague that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages also left hundreds of thousands of victims, also being buried anonymously and in mass graves, which were covered in quicklime.
Lime, in addition, was one of the measures taken by the authorities of the time, and since most of the wonderful paintings that covered the temples, had among the components of their pigments, animal blood that attracted both mosquitoes and rats , main transmitters of that terrible disease, which at that time was attributed to the Devil and his legions, the determination was made to cover them with said material, suffering Art, after all, one of the collateral effects.
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feliz día y feliz cuarentena
Bueno, en realidad, podría decirse que no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol. Feliz cuarentena