Social media in education

Nowadays, social networks are a fundamental tool. There are many opinions that technology allows to speed up education, but at the same time it can reduce it. We must bear in mind that social networks have changed the way we communicate, socialize, how to conduct new business, as well as have made an important change in the way in which students can learn.

Can social networks come to be considered Educational?

In the last two decades the media has reached the hands of children by providing information that was previously restricted to them. Years ago the only way to learn was to read a topic as many times as necessary until you memorize it; From the communicative point of view, the use of the means of communication that we have, can be beneficial, but it has also led to many parents being restricted in the education they give their children. This educational tool does not only affect children, adults and adolescents; besides its use produces addiction.

Currently, one out of every 5 people in the world makes use of social networks, therefore, it is important that in educational centers they are known and used in a way in which students can benefit from them for their training and their Personal development.

Experts of the pedagogy affirm that social networks within the classroom encourage dialogue and participation, and also affirm that social networks are a new way of understanding Education, although there are teachers who refuse to implement them in their teaching systems for several reasons. reasons: as it may be, the scarce training on their part in this field totally new to them and the lack of technological means in the classroom.

Are the benefits of social networks in the classroom unknown?

It would be important to detail the benefits and positive aspects of the use of social networks in current education. Both teachers and students can benefit from the possibilities granted by social networks; teachers can facilitate their work as teachers and from the point of view of students, can facilitate the learning process.

Among the benefits provided by the use of social networks in the area of ​​education, we find the following:

• It allows teachers to teach the student to learn for themselves, acting only as a guide in learning. It is true that social networks such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook ... can become educational tools but the problem with this education is that it is out of control.
• They are a means of communication, allowing adolescents who are very familiar with them, to feel more comfortable in their relationships with teachers. But not only it serves to communicate between students and professors of the same center, but it can serve them to contact experts of other subjects or students of other centers.
• It helps to develop digital and technological skills necessary to work in companies, as well as in their own entrepreneurial initiatives, such as the digital certificate, a tool which is totally unknown to students but can help them and facilitate the completion of paperwork related to the INEM, with the rent, with the ministry of justice, request for online appointment in the social security, as well as consult the points of the driver's license.
• The use of social networks and blog, promotes the value of sharing and collaboration. In this way, not only the teacher transmits knowledge, but also cooperation between a group of people is favored.
• Help in the awareness of the importance of socializing, working as a team, freedom of expression ...
• Through the use of ICT, students learn by doing, which is how they learn best.
• They make it possible to make themselves known to the center, to the teaching staff and to the students, providing opportunities to publicize the institutional and educational activity.
• The search for information will no longer be a boring task, allowing the student to enter the different social networks to investigate and have the necessary resources to complete daily activities.
• Social networks, such as facebook, allow the creation of private class groups and even a group for each subject, which facilitates the resolution of doubts in a quicker and more personal way with teachers; without counting also that in this way they can share with their classmates any resource they need.

Currently there are several collaborative webs, an example is the Wiki, where students can add, edit, create or modify the content of a web page quickly and easily.

Thanks to social networks, teachers can disseminate among them different educational resources, ideas, even materials. There is no doubt that these tools, both teachers and students, facilitate the task of teaching and learning, since both parties have more resources to access and allows students to solve their doubts in an easier and faster way.

To conclude, we can say that social networks are becoming a resource that increases the development of communication skills and can be used as a learning strategy by students, since most students use them daily without specific benefit and teaching them how to make an appropriate use of these, they can include them as part of their academic activities.

Taking into account all the above, social networks will carry out an evolution in the field of education that will favor learning and enrichment reciprocally between teachers and students, that is, encourage collaborative learning using activities that allow self-evaluation or meditation on the work done.

Facebook launches its dating service to compete with Tinder

The social network Facebook launched "Dating" in Colombia, its tool to generate relationships among its users.

This new functionality is designed so that people can meet friends or potential partners who share their interests.

The service works with a separate and private profile within the main application, in an attempt to compete with the Tinder application, leader of the sector.

Facebook Dating uses a unique algorithm to match possible appointments, based on factors such as things you have in common and friends in common. You will not see anyone you're already a friend on Facebook, or see people you've blocked. You can also report and block users with the same tools available in other parts of the social network.

Facebook restricts potential matches to people located less than 100 kilometers away. Like other dating apps, you can also choose to match people who live nearby, whether or not they have children, share the same religion or fit into a specific age or height group.

Geographic distribution of the White Ladies

The Society of the White Ladies, or "Daughters of Venus" have had expressions in most Western countries.

Due to its emergence in the Mediterranean it was extended in principle by the Europe dominated by the Roman Empire, and then in epochs of the colonies from Europe towards mainly America and Australia.

There is no evidence that there are groups of this type in Asia, or in the Arab World, and although the existence of small groups in these areas of the world can not be ruled out, it seems unlikely that they would prosper because of the cultural peculiarities of these civilizations.

It is assumed that there are groups of this type in most of the major cities of the West, but the most active and best organized groups would be in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.

In Europe, all countries today are thought to have groups of this type, although in the countries of the socialist bloc they would have had more difficulties to organize themselves, since it is a group where early education of young people plays a very decisive role. girls from a very early age, and societies with more civil liberties offer a better refuge to groups like this.

In any case there are strong indications that currently in Russia, Georgia, Czech Republic or Croatia have important organized groups.

Australia and New Zealand are two countries where White Ladies would also have a significant presence.

Recently a publication invited its readers to comment on whether they knew directly or indirectly any member of the Daughters of Venus, and the response was strikingly numerous.

A large number of people in Europe, Oceania, America and part of Africa claimed to know members of the White Ladies group.

It is also worth noting that there was not a woman who confessed or even anonymously belonged to any of these groups.

White Ladies: Organization and Philosophy

The White Ladies is an organization with a hierarchy of pyramidal type, which as far as is known is composed of 4 degrees:

• The Great Mother, who is the highest authority of the organization
• The Big Sister, who is appointed by the Great Mother upon assuming her from among the Sisters, and who is her successor in case of death, illness or voluntary retirement.
• The Sisters, who make up the majority of the organization.
• The Novices, who are the aspirants to enter, and who do not belong fully to the organization until they have completed their 3-year trial.

The entrance to the White Ladies is produced exclusively by recruitment, being common that happens between mothers to daughters. This is explained by the long period of indoctrination necessary to be part of the organization.

Any Sister may have a single candidate under her protection, although this is not obligatory, and when the Sister takes place, during that period she receives the rank of Sister Nurse.

Only those who bear the title of Sister, Big Sister, or Great Mother can be Nodriza

Each Nurse Sister has a girl or young woman she has chosen under her protection, and the applicant's education period that lasts for years begins.

During these years the Nurse must test her aspirant 10 times, and once the aspirant has satisfactorily passed these tests the Nurse requests the Great Mother permission for the aspirant to become a Novice, and the Great Mother decides so unappealable if it approves or denies said income.

No aspirant can be a Novice before she reaches 20 years of age, and the novitiate lasts for 3 years, before she can become a Sister, and fully integrate herself into society.

Little is known about the 10 tests to which applicants are subjected to the novitiate, but apparently it is evidence of trust and doctrine.

Doctrine

The White Ladies, unlike other secret societies, do not seek to occupy positions of power or influence this in any way. Its objective is to keep alive a vision of the universe and humanity, which according to its convictions has been separated from what they call the Natural Order.

On the one hand, his doctrine inherits the whole tradition of the Aphrodite cult.

While the so-called "ritual prostitution" found in the genesis of the goddess cult has remained in the past, some of its characteristics have not.

According to the classical tradition, each single young woman went once in her life to the sanctuary of the goddess to make love with a stranger. The man chose the girl, threw some money at her feet (although the amount of money was not important), and pronounced the phrase: "I invoke the goddess on you."

The most beautiful young women were able to do their duty quickly, while the less graceful ones usually took many hours to complete the ritual.

There are those who maintain that from here the cult to the body of the White Ladies is born, as well as their erotic abilities, as a way to fulfill the ritual to the goddess Aphrodite with the promptness and efficiency that the goddess deserves.

The phrase "I invoke the goddess on you" is still part of the initiation ritual, although the versions differ on whether it is pronounced by the Great Mother at the beginning of the novitiate or at the end of it.

Logic would seem to indicate that with this phrase the novices become considered "Sisters", that is, full members of the group, but there is no certainty that this is so.

The cult of physical beauty is an important part of the ritual and tradition of the goddess.

In Cyprus there exists until today, for example, the legend of the rock of Aphrodite. On the beach of Cythera that saw the goddess emerge from the foam, there is a rock called the rock of Aphrodite, and who who swims 3 times around that rock will obtain eternal beauty.

Aphrodite, according to the myth was educated by the Hours, distributors of the rain, who received her as queen in Cyprus and taught her all the tricks to seduce mortal and immortal men.

The search for eternal beauty, as well as perfection in the arts of seduction, are permanent and fundamental searches of the White Ladies, but not the only ones.

The concept that man should be the one who chooses the woman, as well as that the moral duty of this is to accept to honor the goddess, seem to endure throughout the centuries, although suffering changes and successive transformations.

The concept of the Natural Order is another constant, in this order, the most evolved beings follow patterns of behavior dictated by Nature, and as they turn away from these they turn away from happiness.

The lion does not aspire to be anything other than a lion, it is his nature to act as such, and if he turned away from this precept he would fall ill.

"The wolf does not choose to be a wolf, it simply is." This idea of ​​the Natural Order assumes the concept that men and women are of a different nature, and that when they deviate from this behavior they deviate from the possibility of developing fully.

This philosophical position has been very harshly criticized from feminist sectors that argue that the concept of Natural Order aims to keep women in a role of inferiority against the male gender.

However, the concept of Natural Order of the White Ladies does not point to a legal inequality, but to defend the natural differences between both sexes.

For the White Ladies the Natural Order is not revealed by God or a superior entity, although they count among its ranks with members of different religious confessions, but it is reached by careful observation of the teachings of nature.

As in the myth of Aphrodite, fidelity is not a value in itself, nor is it in nature. "A lion has so many females, and for as long as he can defend his position from other rival males."

A lioness does not "live" as infidelity the arrival of another dominant male in the group, but it is part of the natural course of things.

It is man's responsibility, because it is part of the essence of his masculinity, to keep rivals away from his partner.

The knowledge that one has of his philosophy and rituals or initiation tests are fragmentary, although they are consistent with the tradition of the rite of the goddess.

The positions around White Ladies are not unanimous, ranging from those who maintain that it is no more than a legend of oral tradition without real sustenance, to those who think there is strong evidence of its existence to this day; who maintain that their philosophy is quietist and extremely conservative, to those who accuse their members of propagating behaviors that are at odds with morality; those who maintain that it is only one of so many innocuous groups of little interest, to whom they dedicate an important effort to the attempt to identify their members, as is the case of the Sons of Tannhäuser.

The White Ladies: History or Myth ?

The majority of female secret societies are in their origins related to the cult of the mystery of life and fertility.

In this case of the White Ladies, their roots are in the Greek worship of the goddess Aphrodite.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, lust, beauty, sexuality and reproduction.

Although it is often referred to in modern culture as "the goddess of love," it is important to note that it was not usually love in the Christian or romantic sense, but love as physical or sexual attraction.

According to Greek mythology, Aphrodite had no childhood: in all the images and references she was born adult, nubile and infinitely desirable.

Due to its immense beauty, Zeus feared that Aphrodite was the cause of violence among the other gods. For that reason he married her with Hephaestus, the stern and ill-humored god of fire and forge.

However Aphrodite, still married to Hephaestus, was not faithful, and kept frequent romances with other gods, especially with the mighty Ares, but also with Dionysus and Hermes.

He also had lovers among mortals, such as Adonis, Anchises, Phaeton and Kratos, among others.

Aphrodite had her own festivals, the Aphrodisias, which were celebrated throughout Greece but particularly in Athens and Corinth. In the temple of Aphrodite located on top of the Acrocorinth (before the Roman destruction of the city in 146 BC) sexual relations with their priestesses were considered a method of worship of the goddess. This temple was not rebuilt when the city was re-founded under Roman rule in 44 BC. C., but it is probable that the fertility rituals lasted in the city, near the agora.

Venus

Venus was an important Roman goddess related mainly to love, beauty and fertility, which played a crucial role in many Roman religious festivals and myths, but from the third century BC. C., the increasing Hellenization of the Roman upper classes identified it as equivalent to the Greek goddess Aphrodite.

His cult began in Ardea and Lavinio (Lazio). On August 15, 293 a. C. it was dedicated its oldest temple of which one has constancy, and on August 18 the party called the Vinalia Rustica was instituted. On April 25, 215 a. C. was dedicated a temple outside the Porta Collina on Capitoline Hill to commemorate the Roman defeat in the Battle of Lake Trasimeno.

Christianity

The cult of Venus was banished by Christianity, like all pagan cults.

However, it was kept secret by different groups, not necessarily composed exclusively by women.

But by 1200 literary allusions to the cult of the goddess began to appear, as well as various medieval legends, now yes, already converted into an exclusively feminine cult surrounded by mystery, such as the legend of Tannhäuser.

This German story tells that the knight and poet Tannhäuser found the Venusberg, a mountain with caves that contained the underground home of Venus, and spent a year worshiping the goddess there. After leaving the Venusberg, Tannhäuser had remorse and traveled to Rome to ask Pope Urban IV if it was possible for him to be absolved of his sins.

Urban replied that forgiveness was as impossible as it would be for his staff to flourish. Three days after Tannhäuser left, Urban's staff blossomed. Messengers were sent to look for the gentleman, but this one already had returned to the Venusberg and never was seen again.

It has been asserted that the Venusberg is only one of many groups, of the then called Ladies of the White Rose, which would have been discovered by Tannhäuser, and that the knight would have succumbed to the temptation to take advantage of that discovery for his own benefit.

From the Roman upper classes, to the nobility of the European Middle Ages, the cult would have remained, although undergoing transformations in its interaction with other pagan cults.

Century XVIII

With the weakening of the power of the Church, and the proliferation of secret societies, the European courts would be the ideal breeding ground for the reappearance of the legend of the White Ladies.

Far from its religious connotations, the organization is again mentioned with insistence, always linked to women of noble families.

The apolitical nature of the organization, as well as the fact that its members were exclusively women, contributed to its never being seen as a risk to the power of the day, as would other male secret societies.

However, that same contempt meant that they were never infiltrated as the other secret societies would be.

This has had as a consequence, on the one hand a deep ignorance of its internal functioning and on the other that from many intellectual circles the existence of this society of women was ruled out.

Those who defend the existence of the White Ladies argue that these two are the most important causes why the White Ladies have remained in the shadows to this day. For those who claim that White Ladies exist, ignorance and disbelief are the best defense of this organization.

The Sons of Tannhäuser

The Sons of Tannhäuser are a secret society whose origins date back to the 15th century, around the year 1430, and whose members, among whom we suspect that famous celebrities such as Richard Wagner or Ludwig Bechstein have been followed in the footsteps of the legendary Tannhäuser.

Tannhäuser

Tannhäuser was a German poet and Minnesänger, born into a family of knights from the Salzburg area, the Knights of Thannhausen, who resided at his castle in Tannhausen, near Ellwangen and Dinkelsbühl.

Tannhäuser was an active member of the court of Frederick II of Austria, and according to the Codex Manesse would have taken the habits of the Teutonic Order, and participated in the Fifth Crusade.

After this he would have led a life as a wandering poet in Germany, composing lyric poems and songs (Tanzlieder).

At his death was born the legend according to which Tannhäuser would have found the Venusberg, the underground dwelling of the goddess Venus, where she would have spent seven years of her life given over to the pleasures of the goddess.

The Venusberg (in German, Mountain of Venus), is the name of a mythical mountain in Germany located between Gotha and Eisenach. The caverns of the mountain house the court of Venus, goddess of love, who was supposed to be perfectly hidden from mortals: entering there meant eternal damnation, and the ultimate erotic adventure.

According to the legend, after leaving the Venusberg, Tannhäuser had remorse and traveled to Rome to ask Pope Urban IV if it was possible to absolve his sins.

Urban replied that forgiveness was as impossible as it would be for his staff to flourish. Three days after Tannhäuser left, Urbano's staff blossomed. Messengers were sent to look for the gentleman, but this one already had returned to the Venusberg and never was seen again.

The Daughters of Venus

For the Sons of Tannhäuser the legend is true, though hidden behind metaphors that obscure the real meaning of Tannhäuser's discovery.

For the members of this organization, what really happened is that by chance Tannhäuser discovered a group of what they call "Daughters of Venus", female secret societies that coexist daily with the world without being discovered, and that live according to certain principles among which are the impossibility of refusing the wishes of any man who requires obedience to fulfill his carnal desires, the permanent care of his physical beauty to be irresistible to the opposite sex, and the desire to search for perfection through male pleasure.

For the Sons of Tannhäuser there are groups, such as the White Ladies, which make up what they call the Daughters of Venus, and whose existence is protected exclusively by anonymity.

The Sons of Tannhäuser maintain that the Venusberg is nothing other than the discovery of the existence of one of these groups, and that the man who manages to identify one of its members will be what they call the Tannhäuser Gates.

The man who manages to discover one of these groups of women would find a virtually inexhaustible source of pleasure, since he would obtain from them pleasure and obedience in exchange for his silence, which would be what Tannhäuser would have discovered.

The oath of the Sons of Tannhäuser is to seek these "Venusberg" and share it exclusively with the other members of his brotherhood.

Although there is ample evidence of the existence of the White Ladies, as well as abundant references to Tannhäuser and his followers, there are those who question the nature of the search for the Sons of Tannhäuser, and while there are scholars who prefer that the group maintains a search of metaphysical type, in pursuit of reaching the true Venusberg, others argue that it is more mundane and pragmatic objectives, the identification of the "Daughters of Venus" as a way to achieve physical pleasure, without other ulterior goals.

White Ladies: a female secret society

Last week I found a very interesting article in a German magazine, about a secret society composed exclusively by women that has been maintained through the centuries: the "White Ladies" or "Ladies of the White Rose".
I took the trouble to try to transcribe it.

The White Ladies is a female secret society whose origins can be traced back to the ancient world.

It is an organization composed exclusively by women, and its logo is a white rose, since in its early stages who belonged to this organization used this flower to identify themselves, and that would have given rise to its modern name.

While there are no documents to support its existence until well into the Middle Ages, there are indications that its beginnings are linked to the cults of Aphrodite in Greece.

The society would have persisted taking as an object of worship to Venus, already in Rome, and through it they would have spread throughout a good part of Europe.

However, it is not until the beginning of the thirteenth century that evidence can be found of the existence of this secret society, mentioned in documents of the period in which the house of Hohenstaufen the Holy Roman Germanic Empire, found in the monastery of Rupertsberg, in which it alludes to the "Ladies of the White Rose" (Damen der Weißen Rose), and stories are mentioned that would place the same Countess of Rheineck, Gertrude von Nordheim, a noblewoman famous for her great beauty, such as Große Mutter, Great Mother, of the Ladies of the White Rose.

The organization would be harshly persecuted by the Church, under the accusation of the practice of witchcraft, which is why it would be practically disarticulated, and the surviving members would disappear.

However, it is known that various groups would remain in hiding, and would no longer publicly identify themselves, maintaining the identity of their members in the strictest secrecy.

It will not be until the eighteenth century that there would be news of different groups of "Ladies of the White Rose" in countries such as Italy, Spain, Germany or England, although the existence of groups in most of the countries of Europe, and the emergence in the nineteenth century of similar groups in America.

The name "White Ladies" would be a variation suffered through the centuries of the "Ladies of the White Rose", although by the secret nature of these groups, and the long period of isolation due to the persecution suffered, they would have originated different denominations, being the best known: "White Ladies", "White Roses", "Ladies of the White Rose", "White Lodge" and "Lodge of Venus".

It is estimated that only here in Germany, Damas Blancas would have more than 2,300 members today, although this information has been questioned since there has been a debate between those who say that this organization has never existed and it is a question of popular tradition, who argue that it did exist but was dismantled during the Middle Ages, and who argue that there is evidence of various active groups to this day.

Do not confuse the White Ladies with the Ladies in White; the latter is about a Cuban anti-Castro organization that has no ties of any kind with the White Ladies.

The three fundamental reasons why women ask for a divorce

For a marriage to last over time, it is very important to have life goals similar to those of the couple. If this does not happen, it becomes the first cause of divorce. More than 43,000 women are enrolled in NextLove, the largest online dating network in Europe for divorced people and single mothers and fathers. The platform has asked its users the reasons why they broke their marriage. Some of them are physical abuse, infidelity or lack of privacy.

"The lack of common interests in a long-term life together can also be the cause of the second reason for this list," says Sigurd Vedal, CEO of NextLove and Victoria Milan, another dating website for married and divorced people looking for a affair "While infidelity is sometimes a very effective way to save some marriages, it can also be responsible for breaking others," continues Vedal. In fact, 29.2% of respondents cited infidelity as the second reason to leave their marriages. In the third step, 10.9% of the respondents affirmed that the constant fights and discussions were the main cause by which they broke their relationship.

The list is followed by a lack of privacy, which "can destroy a marriage and cause a couple to lead completely separate lives," says Vedal. Most women want excitement in their bedrooms and an active sex life and if they do not have this at home, they will look elsewhere. "In fact, we have seen that many of the users, both men and women, do it exactly for this reason: for taking time in a sexless relationship," explains the CEO of NextLove.

Another reason why women apply for a divorce is because of mental illness. Despite the efforts of the couple, the challenge of these types of illnesses can break the marriage. Although it is less frequent, 5.6% of the respondents affirmed that this was the main reason why they divorced.

The number 6 position on the list is the bad behavior on the part of the couple, either emotionally, financially or even physically. "Not helping with domestic chores, not worrying about their children or having bad character" are attitudes that "end up burning the couple", Vedal explains.

Boredom ranks seventh in this top. According to the dating platform, it is "a partner relationship killer" that has received 4.2% of the votes in this survey. Researchers from the University of Winnipeg say that the most common way for couples to describe their marriage is 'bland' or 'boring'.

Almost 3% of divorces due to abuse

The number 8 of the study is the physical abuse, a very serious issue suffered by 2.63% of women surveyed, which is 1,131 women in total.

To avoid this kind of abuses "in NextLove and in the rest of our online dating sites we make sure that there are no false profiles, and second that all members' conversations are absolutely healthy. In other words, our technology controls, through keywords, that users do not use bad words or that they can harm the person they are chatting with ", explains the CEO of the company.

Vedal says that, although it is "difficult" to control abusive behavior in offline life, when users leave our website, "all their platforms are designed so that no abuse occurs in them".

Other less important reasons that appear in the queue of the list are other domestic and economic problems. The CEO of NextLove believes that this top "represents quite well the reasons why many women decide to end their marriage and ask for a divorce" and celebrates that "after this process, they are usually quite open to give love a second chance" .

The Origin of Tarot

The origin of the tarot is dark. Perhaps, it goes back, like other playing cards, to the times of the ancient Egyptians, from the moment that scholars have recognized the major arcana in the hieroglyphics. On the contrary, other scholars have spoken about remarkable similarities of the playing cards with the first games and oriental idols. On the other hand, you can not exclude the average age as the birthplace of the tarot. We do not even know whether the major arcana, with their symbolic drawings and the minor arcana, with their well-known four suits, were created separately and later gathered in a single deck, by any genial mind, or if, on the contrary, they were born directly as a deck or deck of seventy-eight cards.

I will try to give the most plausible explanation about the origin of the normal cards of the game and the tarot in particular, following the chronological order and details of the first decks, similar to those of the tarot, which were popular in Italy during the 15th century, following them in its evolution until the definitive deck of the 18th century tarot.

The Egyptian Book of Thoth

In volume I of the work Le Monde primitif, of 1781, Court de Gebelin offers a convincing argument in favor of the Egyptian origin of the tarot cards. He argues that the twenty-two major arcana are an ancient Egyptian book, The Book of Thoth, saved from the fire that destroyed the temples. Thoth was the Egyptian Mercury, considered one of the first kings, and the mythical inventor of the word and hieroglyphics, letters inserted in a chain of mystical events. Many students of the occult sciences recognize in the tarot cards the pages of the hieroglyphic books, which contain, in a series of symbols and emblematic figures, the principles of the mystical philosophy of the Egyptians: Gebelin was convinced that the esoteric symbols of the Tarot spread throughout Europe from the nomadic tribes of the Gypsies or gypsies.

Chess

The Chaturange or game of the Four Kings, is very similar to the four-suit game cards. This oriental game, which dates back to the V-VI centuries, precursor of the modern game of chess, had originally the King, the General (the current Queen) and the Horse, as well as the Pawns or soldiers. At the beginning there was no Queen, since the presence of a female figure in a game that reflected the war strategy contrasted with the original idea of ​​decorum. It is probable that, at a certain moment, some Indian players would be left without a piece of Chaturange, they would cut out the missing figures using a tree bark or a paper, thus giving rise to a new game.

China - Chess - Dominoes - Dice

A type of Chinese cards has the same name as Chinese chess, Keu-ma-pou, or Cars - Horses - Rifles, so we can think that card games are derived from Chinese chess.

It is believed that the Chinese domino, punctuated as the dice - from which it seems to derive - was used at the beginning in the divinatory practices. It is composed of twenty-one pieces, which represent the combinations of the two dice. Some experts consider that the game cards derive, in the last analysis, from the dice, through the Chinese game of wooden dominoes.

Korean divining arrow

The eighty-letter Korean decks, called Htou-Tjyen, suggest the idea that Korean card games are derived from divining arrows. These letters are usually strips of paper, 20 cm long and 0.5 cm wide. The reverse is uniformly decorated with a feathered arrow. The cards include eight clubs. The letters present frontally bundles of stylized arrows that conserve, with respect to the different clubs, the symbolic meaning of the quiver. That is why it has been thought that these letters bring their origin from the divination arrows.

The Gypsies

Many associate the divining letters with the gypsies, native of Hindustan and expelled from Italy, at the beginning of century XV, by Timur Lenk, the Muslim conqueror of most of the Central Asia and the Eastern Europe. The Gypsies are universally recognized as the Cartomantes par excellence, since it is believed that they carry in their blood the divinatory virtues.

Tribes of Gypsies began to move towards the West around the year 1400, crossing the Indus, Afghanistan and the deserts of Persia and moving along the Persian Gulf, to the mouth of the Euphrates. Entering the great deserts of Arabia they found different roads to Europe. Small nomadic tribes had stopped in Crete, Corfu and the Balkans, before 1350. In 1417, a tribe of Gypsies arrived near Hamburg, in Germany. Other sources speak of Gypsies in Rome in 1422 and in Barcelona and Paris, in 1427.

Be that as it may, there is good evidence to believe that the Gypsies arrived in Europe only some time after the appearance of the playing cards.

Johannes, a German monk

In a letter sent by this monk to Brefeld, in Switzerland, he states that "a game called the game of cards (Ludus cartarum) has come to us this year of 1377"; but he adds that "he ignores when it was invented, where or by whom".

In his treaty, which is preserved in the collection of the British Museum in London, Johannes compares the game of cards with that of chess "since in both there are kings, queens, nobles and commoners".

Cards

One of the main arguments in support of the Saracen origin of the letters is the name that the Spaniards use to indicate the playing cards: cards, which could be derived from the word napa, used in Vizcaya and which means plain, uniform.

Some scholars believe that playing cards is a voice of Arab origin. The Hebrew word Naibes has similarity to the old Italian name of letters, naibi, and in both languages ​​means magic, clairvoyance and prediction.

According to another theory the word cards would derive from the initials of the inventor of the letters: N.P., a certain Nicolao Pepin. However, there is a lack of evidence in this regard.

Smell of luck

The last time I bought incense I did it in a supermarket, and besides looking very expensive, I have not been very satisfied with the aroma.

The truth is that slowly burning the chair in the living room would have been more or less the same, I paid for something that smells of burnt wood, despite the fact that the box presumed to be lemon.

It is clear that I have to buy another brand, of those that sell at fairs, but hey, if I do not even know when it's Thursday ..., like now, I just discovered that Thursday was yesterday.

The good thing is that only 6 days are missing for the next one, it's not so much.

But less than the day I remember the Thursday fair, and the incense sticks, much less!

The other day I was talking to my mother and I asked her if she would not have a wand that she could give me, and that same night I had 12 boxes full of incense of all the perfumes and colors at home.

That's a couple of days ago, and until now I opened a little box at random, I took out a wand, I lit it, and that's it.

But not today, today I'm a little more attentive to these details, and I've been given that I should choose an aroma that was with the moment.

And what is the moment? This moment? I do not know, no one worth remembering without hesitation.

I look at the boxes scattered on the trunk that serves as a small table, in front of the stove.

All bring out some very striking colors, large letters indicating the aroma, and smaller some enigmatic phrases, which I guess will serve to guide us on what wand, what aroma is appropriate.

Sandalwood - Meditation, Spirituality and Good Luck!

I am not too spiritual but good, I could serve, to meditate I am quite rotten, but good luck never hurts.

FengShui - To harmonize your home and office

That's good, with a wand I harmonize everything, that I have everything together, house and office let's say.

Jasmine - Enthusiasm, Pleasure and Attraction

It sounds great, the enthusiasm could help, but I'm worried about the attraction, how my things have been going lately, the most likely thing is that it attracts a lightning bolt, or a meteorite.

Today I pass.

Luna - Sensuality, Pleasure and Good Dreams

Sensuality ... ta barbaric if you come with company, sensuality to sit down to program php alone is a mess.

I do not know, che ...

There's the one that I think I need now: Sandalwood and Floral - Quick Luck.

I need luck urgently.

Although to be honest, it would be enough for me to smell good.

I went, I lit it, and there it is; It's pretty smooth, it's not bad, although it's been on for 40 seconds and I still have not won the lottery or called me the woman of my dreams.

You have to settle for the perfume ... it's not bad, it's not the eighth wonder, but hey, that's what it is.