Enigmas y misterios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

As loathsome as it was, the Third Reich also arouses great fascination, which causes everything around it to hold a certain vivid and inextinguishable interest. Whoever approaches these pages will experience what Germans felt during those turbulent years.

EL LENGUAJE RITUAL EN EL PALO MONTE MAYOMBE. En el Palo Monte Mayombe, cualquier lenguaje está impregnado de religión: el oral, el escrito, el artístico o el mímico. El poder, la responsabilidad, la obligatoriedad de la palabra y la conciencia de que sólo la palabra altera el mundo, son rasgos muy característicos de este sistema religioso afro­cubano y son objeto de estudio en este libro. En este contexto se anali­zan los conjuros de los nganguleros, los cantos rituales o “mambos” congos, las formas características de la música sacra del Palo Monte Mayombe (la polimetría y la...

Uno de los principales triunfos del hombre sobre la naturaleza fue el de vencer las tinieblas gracias a la lumbre o luz producida por el fuego. Dicen los cronistas que el primer indicio que tuvo Cristóbal Colón ,al llegar a lo que él desconocía que iba a ser América, no estuvo asociado a la visión de tierra sino a los reflejos de luz producidos por las hogueras o fogones encendidos por los habitantes del nuevo mundo. La lucha del hombre contra la oscuridad es una de tantas que la humanidad ha enfrentado en su camino evolutivo. Pues bien, desde esa primera lumbre hasta los grandes...

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