#guanche

[knario47]

GUANCHIPEDIA

Estimada señorita Monica Blanco, confundir Guanche con Canario es una falta de conocimiento, escúchese bien lo que dice, no confunda a la ignorante e inculta poblacion canaria con tus lapsus mentales, Guanches es de la isla de Achinech hoy Tenerife como Canario de la isla de Canaria hoy Gran Canaria, los nombres de lugares como dices tu son nombres de aborigenes Yaiza y Guajara, tu comentario no es correcto Monica dando a confundir aun mas nuestro legado aborigen.

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[raging-guanche]

you can't be antifa/decolono if you think canary islands are spain

[paramedicabroad]

Risco Caido

Join me on a virtual journey to Risco Caído, a UNESCO World Heritage Site tucked away in the captivating landscapes of Gran Canaria, Spain. This archaeological gem, known for its subterranean marvels, invites us to unravel the mysteries of an ancient sanctuary.

Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria gained UNESCO World Heritage status in 2019, acknowledging its exceptional universal value. The site is recognized for its unique combination of astronomical, religious, and cultural elements, preserving the legacy of the Guanches.

Descend into the labyrinthine caves of Risco Caído, an ancient sanctuary etched into the volcanic landscape of Gran Canaria. These subterranean marvels, carved by the Guanches – the indigenous people of the Canary Islands, offer a glimpse into a world where spirituality and astronomy converged.

Marvel at the Cave of the Seven Fires, a celestial observatory meticulously aligned with astronomical events. The Guanches, skilled astronomers, used this cave to mark solstices and equinoxes, showcasing their profound connection with the cosmos.

Explore the sacred spaces within Risco Caído, where intricate carvings and symbols adorn the cave walls. These engravings depict religious rituals, fertility symbols, and the Guanches' deep spiritual connection with the natural world.

Embark on a virtual stargazing experience, where the unique celestial alignments of Risco Caído come to life. The interconnectedness of the caves with astronomical events reflects the Guanches' profound understanding of the cosmos.

Visit the Guanche Heritage Center, a modern facility that serves as a gateway to understanding the indigenous culture of the Canary Islands. Here, exhibits and educational programs illuminate the history and significance of Risco Caído.

Reflect on the importance of sustainable tourism in preserving the delicate environment of Risco Caído. Visitors are encouraged to tread lightly, respecting the site's cultural and ecological integrity.

In conclusion, Risco Caído beckons us to delve into the depths of history and gaze upon the stars as the Guanches once did. When you're ready for a digital odyssey through an underground sanctuary, Risco Caído promises to captivate and inspire. 🌌🏛️🇪🇸

[fatphobiabusters]

it's super sad that every time i see a video of a fat person doing anything i just sigh and expect the worst in comments, and most of the time im not wrong

The comment section of any website but especially YouTube is often absolutely cruel to fat people. I have seen fatphobes say horrible things in YouTube comment sections. The anonymity factor allows people to pretend away any realization that they're abusing actual, living human beings. I can't help myself and will write a comment about fatphobia in a video, which almost never ends well. It can be hard not to succumb to the despair this brings, but I take solace in the fact that the many people who follow this blog because they do, in fact, care about equality would vehemently disagree with the fatphobes who write comments on online videos. And that is a lot of people on my side.

-Mod Worthy

[princemick]

oil vs guache

[cornsword]

This is my new OC, Guanch. He looks like a monster from a trading card. He loves Pablo Neruda but hasn’t read him in Spanish and has never googled him. He knows how sex works but not what it is. He prefers the old powdered lava hand soap. His job is being a coworker for other people’s OCs and other AU fics. You are only allowed to ship Guanch with the moon landing. He smells like a stapler and he thinks Goofy is real.

If you get too precious about finishing your wip and try to be too perfect with your first drafts then Guanch will happen to you.

[simonytodas]

[froody]

Spaniards ate mummies in the Canary Islands?! WTF?

Mummia, a substance created from ground mummies was a popular medicine and aphrodisiac in medieval Europe and when it fell out of practice as a medicine, it was still used as a pigment in oil painting until the 1800s. Typically made from Egyptian mummies, Egypt banned the export of the substance in the 16th century.

The Spanish colonized the Canary Islands in the early 15th century and began making mummia out of the mummified remains of the Guanche people, who had inhabited the islands for upwards of 2,500 years at the time of Spanish arrival. The destruction was so total that less than 20 Guanche mummies remain in the whole of the Canary Islands. We cannot say for certain that the thousands of missing mummies were used for mummia, the Spanish may have simply desecrated and destroyed them.

[pedripics]

Pedri: The island boy with the world at his feet

(via The Athletic - December 2020)

“It is very easy to say it now but the people who know me know that it’s true,” Ruben Delgado tells The Athletic. “When Pedri was nine years old, he reminded me of Iniesta. I always say that the first time I saw him, I knew he had something special."

“His way of playing — everything very simple but very important at the same time. He was not looking to nutmeg people or do lots of stepovers: just the simple thing and the right thing. He was just different: the way he saw football, understood the game, found spaces nobody else could, the maturity he had compared to his team-mates. That is very difficult to find in the world of football but he does it. And it does remind you of Iniesta; looking for the simple thing. It’s a gift. Not very common in football.”

Delgado is a youth football coach with the team in Tegueste, a village on the island of Tenerife. When Pedro Gonzalez Lopez, known then as now as Pedri, turned nine, Andres Iniesta had scored Spain’s winning goal in the World Cup final the year before and later that season won the third of his eventual four Champions League trophies with Barcelona.

Iniesta was also then maybe the most popular footballer in Spain, winning over team-mates, opponents and neutrals with a becoming mix of quiet good manners off the pitch and unshowy genius as he decided games for club and country.

So it was quite something to say that this shy young kid was like Iniesta, but Delgado has not changed his mind over the eight years since he first started coaching a shy, unassuming boy with the gift for playing simple but special football who has settled naturally into the Barcelona midfield since his arrival last summer.

“Pedri just transmitted something different than the other kids of his age,” he says. “Not just how he played with the ball but the respect he showed to his teammates, rival players, the coaches, everyone. One game he scored a super goal, dribbling (past) many players and finishing it perfectly. All of us on the sideline — our fans, and the opposition too — all just had to applaud. At the end of the game, I asked him, ‘Pedri, how did you do that?’ and he just looked at me and said, ‘I don’t know. it just came out naturally’. And I told him, ‘No, no, Pedri — that is not natural’.”

Pedri was born in November 2002 — just a few weeks after Iniesta made his Barcelona first-team debut — in Tegueste, a small town in the northwest of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.

He was also born into Barcelona — given that, eight years previously, his grandfather Fernando Rodriguez had established the Peña Barcelonista de Tenerife-Tegueste, one of the first official Barcelona supporters clubs in the Canary Islands. Pedri’s father, also Fernando, still runs it, along with family friend Oscar Ledesma.

“Tegueste is a small town of around 10,000 people, with a healthy rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid supporters, and the Rodriguez family were always known as ‘the Catalans’ as they were all Barca fans,” Ledesma tells The Athletic. “His grandfather was president of the town’s football club (Union Deportiva Tegueste) for many years and also president of the ‘Lucha Canaria’ club (a local form of wrestling developed by the Guanches, the earliest known natives of the archipelago off the north west African coast). His father was a goalkeeper for many years and had some trials with Tenerife, although he never played for them. The family has a restaurant here in Tegueste, which was established by his grandfather. His grandmother worked there, now his parents, his uncles; they all work together.”

Naturally, Pedri and his older brother Fernando (the third generation) began to play for Tegueste’s youth teams, where Delgado was their coach. Although two years younger than his brother, Pedri’s displays soon started to draw attention in their hometown and elsewhere on the island.

“There were people who came to our games just to watch Pedri,” Delgado says. “There was admiration from the parents of the other kids, from the opposition teams. He did not stand out just for the way he played: his dribbling or finishing, like some kids of this age do. With him, it was his maturity and way of understanding football, knowing very quickly to take the correct decision in every moment. You do not see that very often in a kid of nine or ten years old. People could see the potential that he had but also how humble he was, how normal. Tegueste is a small place where everybody knows their neighbours and it’s a family club which transmits those values — respect for referees and opponents, friendliness, to enjoy yourself.”

Tenerife-born Pedro was an important player in Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering Barcelona team of that time, while the Spain side which won Euro 2008, World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012 had David Silva, from the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria. Lionel Messi was by now the favourite player of most Barcelona-supporting kids the world over. However, the young Pedri and his father had a clear idea of who his model players should be.

“Pedri always says that Iniesta was his hero and his reference from when he used to go to the peña (supporters’ club) to watch the games with his father and grandfather,” says Ledesma. “He also spoke a lot about (Michael) Laudrup, even though he moved to Madrid and he never saw him play for Barca. His father used to show him videos.”

When the family realised that Pedri needed to be challenged more on the pitch, the two brothers joined Juventud Laguna, a bigger club in San Cristobal de La Laguna, still just a 10-minute drive from home.

“Pedri was the smallest on the team but every coach he had could see that they had a special talent,” Ledesma says. “He did not want to leave at first for Laguna as he was happy playing with his friends and there were also offers from stronger clubs, like Tenerife. The first time he made his debut on the Laguna juveniles (the under-18s, when he was 14), the senior side immediately called him and wanted him to play with them. His dad was worried that he would get broken up, with those little sticks of legs he had, but he just went with them and did amazing things. He is very special.”

By now, Pedri had also started to play for the Canary Islands’ representative side and scouts from some (but not all) Primera Division clubs had taken notice. Although there was still a reluctance to move and leave his friends and family behind, Las Palmas’ academy director Manuel Rodriguez made a persuasive case for him to move to another of the Canary Island clubs to progress his career.

“Offers kept coming and Las Palmas have a very good reputation in the Canaries for their youth system, and very good residences for the boys to live in,” Ledesma says. “It was tough for his parents to accept. He was moving to another island but they assured him about his studies too and they convinced the whole family with their ideas: where he would play, how they would help him to progress. He was very happy there.”

Delgado says that each step of the way, Pedri had help in keeping his career progressing forward at just the right pace.

“Good players always need new challenges and to move up,” he says. “The process has been ideal. He has overcome every challenge that came along each step of the way. He had various offers at different moments but they have known how to choose the right option. Not everybody has that good fortune and it has gone well for him. His father, his brother, his uncles, his friends; they have all kept his feet on the ground. They did not let him grow further than was best in every moment. That has helped him to get to where he is now.”

It was summer 2018 when Pedri moved into the Casa Amarilla youth academy of Las Palmas. After one year as the youngest player among the club’s under-18s, he was ready to move up the levels again.

Then-Las Palmas technical secretary Toni Otero picks up the story.

“I first saw him playing aged 15 and we decided to bring him up to the first team,” Otero tells The Athletic. “We just could not believe what we were seeing, that a player at that age could do what he was doing. We knew he had a lot of potential, could reach the very top. We were afraid that he was still too young but once we saw him train and then play for the first team, we realised he was an extraordinary player.”

Otero signed Pedri to his first professional contract in July last year but was still unsure whether the slight 16-year-old was ready to be pitched into a first team playing in Spain’s second tier.

“The only fear we had was that, physically, he was not ready for professional football with grown men, as he is not a big kid,” he says. “But from the first training session with the first team, we could see he would adapt very well. His first game with us was a pre-season friendly in Marbella against Almeria, after just two weeks of pre-season training with the first team — and he was the best player on the pitch. He did whatever he wanted: played comfortably, passed the ball, ran the game, dribbled past players. He was showing that, ‘I’m here now. I don’t care who you are but I am a proper football player’. That game told us that this kid has everything to reach the top.”

Las Palmas’ coach Pepe Mel was also convinced and Pedri started the first game of the season, doing well even though his team were beaten 1-0 by Huesca. A week later, he got the assist on veteran striker Ruben Castro’s goal in a 1-1 draw away to Malaga. The following month, his first goal in senior football brought Las Palmas’ first win of the season, at home to Sporting Gijon.

Except when called up for Spain’s age-group teams, including to play at the Under-17 World Cup in Brazil, Pedri played each week for Las Palmas. Opponents quickly realised their main creative threat was the tiny kid in midfield but he still finished last season with four goals and seven assists in 36 league games. Otero says that everyone in the dressing room automatically took to this quiet teenager who did his talking on the pitch.

“He was a young kid; skinny, very shy,” Otero says, “so the other players did not know what to expect, but that also helped them to take him into the dressing room. At Barcelona now, from Leo Messi to the groundsman, everyone naturally wants to look after him. And at Las Palmas, it was the same. We had to go along learning with him. I always think age is not important in football — some players of 40 seem like kids, others of 16 are already like men.”

Otero agrees with Ledesma and Delgado that Pedri had good people around him, including his agents Leaderbrock Sports, who also represent other younger Spanish talents including Manchester City’s Ferran Torres and Athletic Bilbao’s Unai Nunez.

“Pedri is very close to his family and they protect him,” Otero says. “His agents look after many young players and know how to protect these kids. Everything related to football and outside of football was looked after. He was playing in the Las Palmas first team and living in the residence at the training ground. We had to take the basketball hoop down as he just wanted to play it all the time, but he was not going out at night. He is not a party kid."

“He likes his PlayStation, his friends, going to the park. He is just such a quiet kid, which is helping him at the moment. It is very important that he is kept away from the parts of football which are not good.”

Given the family connection to Barcelona, it might have seemed obvious that Pedri would end up at the Nou Camp at some point but things could easily have turned out differently.

“Pedri was very close to joining Real Madrid,” says Ledesma. “When he was still playing for Laguna, and began to draw attention, various clubs came here — Deportivo La Coruna, Atletico Madrid, Villarreal and also Real Madrid. The Barca scout here did not rate him. At that moment, they did not think he was an interesting player."

“Madrid took him for a trial. He was there for a week but there was tremendous snow, so he could only do a couple of training sessions. They told him they would be in touch but nothing came of it. It is very funny, as he said he did not recognise himself wearing a Madrid jersey when he was there on trial. All of us here in the peña, including myself, tried to make contact with Barcelona in some way to tell them that this kid is going on trial at Madrid, and he’s Barca to the core — but nobody took any notice.”

Barcelona then had another stroke of luck. Otero had spent two years working as a scout at the Camp Nou and personally knew those running their youth structures, including the club’s former midfielder Jose Mari Bakero.

“When I saw this player, after just 10 minutes, I called Barcelona to talk to Jose Mari and tell him to come and look at this kid,” Otero says, “as he is a Barca player — not 100 per cent but 1,000 per cent. ‘You have to come here, even though he is just 16 years old, but if you take him now, it will be a lot easier than if you wait another year as by then, he will already be a ‘crack’.’ And Jose Mari took me at my word, came here and he could see it too after just 10 minutes.”

So, in early September last year, when he had still only played three senior games for Las Palmas, it was agreed that Pedri would join Barcelona this past summer for an initial fee of €5 million plus add-ons, including 15 per cent of the profit in any future sale. The deal did not make huge headlines at the time but, more recently, Barcelona figures including current sporting director Ramon Planes and former club president Josep Maria Bartomeu have taken credit for their supposed foresight.

“I imagine that many people want to put medals on their chests as now we can see Pedri is going to be a world-class player,” Otero says. “I made the first call, to Jose Mari Barkero, as I had worked at Barca and I knew perfectly well what was the best to do.”

Ledesma says Pedri and his family also received offers from other big clubs at that time. However, the connection with Barcelona was too strong to consider going anywhere else.

“When he was at Las Palmas, the offers started to come, and Barca got involved then,” says Ledesma. “There were various offers on the table but he told his father that if it were possible, he only wanted to join Barca. I believe there were better offers from other teams but both he and his father were clear they wanted Barca.”

After completing the season with Las Palmas, Pedri formally arrived at Barcelona to start pre-season in early August — just as most of his new team-mates were in Lisbon, about to crash out of the Champions League with an 8-2 quarter-final loss to Bayern Munich.

When Ronald Koeman took over as coach a few weeks later, he spoke publicly about Pedri needing to be sent on loan as he was too young to be considered for the first team.

Koeman has a reputation for showing confidence in youth but had also spoken a lot about giving a chance to Philippe Coutinho, who was returning from a season on loan at Bayern. The competition for places in attacking midfield roles also included World Cup 2018 winner Antoine Griezmann, €130 million France international Ousmane Dembele, €30 million Portugal international Francisco Trincao, homegrown fan favourite Riqui Puig and a certain guy called Messi.

However, Pedri’s performances in training, and in the first few friendlies before all the senior players had returned to full fitness after their brief close-season break having played on into August, led to a quick change of plans.

“I imagine Koeman had the same experience we did,” Otero says. “I was fully sure that if he did pre-season with Barca, then he would stay (rather than being loaned out) — no doubts at all — because Koeman would have seen that he was ready. Even though he looks small, he is physically strong and he is just a Barca player. After seeing him train for 10 minutes, Koeman realised that he had a player who was going to be one of the best in the world, for sure.”

Ledesma says that even those closest to Pedri thought it most likely he would spend another year gaining experience and playing time on loan somewhere else, possibly in Germany.

“We thought that he would go and do pre-season at Barcelona but we were sure they would loan him to another team where he would be able to play every week,” Ledesma says. “He could not go to Barca B. That was in his contract. There were many teams interested, including Borussia Dortmund, and we thought he could be loaned back to Las Palmas. He was prepared for that but the circumstances at Barca, the time of transition there, have helped for younger players to get opportunities. And he has taken it, and settled in there, playing a lot more than we expected.”

Delgado says that Pedri himself was always convinced that if given a chance, he could show he was ready to play in Barcelona’s first team.

“I am only surprised by how fast it is happening; that he has earned his place in the XI at Barcelona so quickly,” Delgado says. “We all expected it to happen but to take a bit more time. I remember talking to him in the summer and he was convinced he wanted to stay at Barca this season, and when this kid decides to do something, he usually does it.”

Most new players who have come to Barcelona in recent years have needed time to adapt, including many who were much older and with a lot more experience than Pedri, with Coutinho and Griezmann being obvious examples. This year could have been extra difficult, given all the turmoil around the club, including Messi’s attempt to leave last summer and Bartomeu’s resignation as president in October. However, those around Pedri say he has settled in remarkably easily.

“He speaks wonderfully about the atmosphere in the dressing room: above all, about the older players who have taken to him and to the other younger players, like Trincao and Ansu Fati,” says Ledesma. “Even at the start, when the mood was a bit strange and the president resigned, and all that, he felt very comfortable. He has that character — that people warm to him quickly. He speaks very well about everybody: (Sergio) Busquets, (Gerard) Pique, Messi and all of them.”

Pedri came off the bench in the first three La Liga games of the season, then was given a first start at Getafe in week four, with Coutinho dropping out. Barcelona lost 1-0 but the 17-year-old was one of their best players, with a strong run and clever pass that was key to a move which saw Messi hit a post from the visitors’ best chance to equalise.

“Since the start, Koeman has treated him with a lot of care, given him lots of advice,” says Ledesma. “Above all, he has given him confidence. When he trains and plays, he keeps telling him he is doing very well, to keep going like this, to use his imagination and not be afraid to try things, to do what he knows he can do — and for a kid so young, that gives you a lot of confidence.”

Four days later, he came off the bench to make his Champions League debut and marked the occasion with his first Barcelona goal in a 5-1 victory over Ferencvaros  He was back in the XI for October’s Clasico at home to Real Madrid but did not have his best game and was taken off early in a 3-1 defeat. Koeman kept faith, though, and started him again four days later at Juventus — and Pedri produced a phenomenal performance, regularly skipping away from Juan Cuadrado and frustrating the Colombian by stealing the ball from him, too. A few weeks later came his first La Liga goal, another confident finish in a 5-2 victory over Real Betis.

“As a 17-year-old, you have to understand there will be ups and downs, and better and worse games,” Otero says. “Maybe he did not stand out so much against Madrid but then, a few days later, everybody saw what he did against Juventus. But if the coach keeps putting him in the team, it is because he is happy with his performances.”

While Pedri’s season has been progressing as well as anyone could have hoped, his team have stumbled along and mixed some decent performances with other horror-show displays. Many local pundits say it is no coincidence that they have been playing better in recent weeks because Pedri has more responsibility in the team, and €155 million Brazil international Coutinho is featuring less. Koeman has also been experimenting with the team’s shape, and Pedri played a deeper role in the recent 2-1 win over Real Sociedad, when he drew even more admiration for a brave last-ditch Javier Mascherano-style challenge on Alexander Isak which prevented an almost certain late equaliser.

“Pedri is a player who understands football,” Otero says. “It is not that he is focused on playing in one position or another, or that the coach has told him he must do this or that. No. He understands what he has to do before a coach or anybody can tell him. He has the game in his head and knows perfectly well what he needs to do. It is something great that he has.”

The most difficult challenge for many new Barcelona players is to get on the same wavelength as Messi, something neither Griezmann nor Coutinho have managed to do yet. However, Pedri has quickly struck up an understanding with the Argentinian. Against Real Sociedad, 10 of the 31 passes Pedri completed were to Messi, while Barca’s No 10 found him nine times in return. Their connection was again clear in the 3-0 win at Real Valladolid just before Christmas, especially with the back-heel assist from Pedri for Messi’s strike and the joyous goal celebration between the pair.

“At Las Palmas, the players who he connected best with on the pitch were the most technical: Jonathan Viera and Ruben Castro,” says Ledesma. “When Viera arrived on loan, he told Pedri, ‘You look for me on the pitch and you and me, we are going to understand each other’. Maybe with Messi, it is not the exact same words but something similar has happened."

“Messi knows that if you give him the ball, you will get it back in a better position, and that is important when you play with these technical players. Pedri is also bursting with pride that Messi talks with him, gives him advice, having been his hero almost since he was born. That, for him, is something incredible. Messi speaks more in the dressing room than in front of the cameras. From what I hear, he is more a leader inside the dressing room than it might seem from outside. He lifts the others, he supports them, and that is helping Pedri a lot.”

Otero says Pedri has not had to change anything about his personality or his style of play to fit in at Barcelona — and has not tried to show off with any special tricks or unnecessary demonstrations of skill, instead just continuing to play the same simple way he always has.

“He has that humility and simplicity and naturalness,” Otero says. “With this kid, everything he does is so natural. He just has that talent inside him. That is what talent is: knowing what to do in each moment and being able to do it. Not just heading off on a dribble to show off. Messi has that, and Pedri too. It is all natural talent. He was born with it. He is too young to have learned to play like this. I am convinced he will be a world-class star and mark an era in Spanish football.”

While the Clasico was maybe his quietest game for Barcelona so far, little seems to have fazed the teenager so far. He has even played some of his better games when the team were struggling: such as in that first start at Getafe or in the 1-1 draw at Alaves when far more experienced colleagues let their team down.

After their title hopes took a huge blow in the 1-0 defeat at Atletico Madrid on November 21, he did the post-match Spanish TV interview, admitting that Barcelona had not played well and would have to look at their mistakes and improve — all this from a supposedly shy kid, just four days before his 18th birthday, and only a few months after moving to Catalonia.

“He is a little bit introverted or shy when he does not know the people he is with,” says Ledesma. “But afterwards, when he gets to know you and feels confident, he loves to joke around. It is true that on the pitch he changes, and he always has. When he was playing, he always took it seriously. Every game was very important; even just a kickaround with his friends, he always wanted to win."

“He has a sense of calm, even when Pepe Mel called him to the Las Palmas first team just past his 16th birthday. They all said he had the character, a security in himself that it seemed he had always played there. We were all confident that if Barca gave him a sniff of a chance, he was going to take advantage of it. He gets nervous sometimes, like everyone, but he does not show it. And once he is playing, even in front of fans, he puts everything else to the side.”

Recent months have also seen Pedri make his debut for Spain Under-21s while it would be no surprise if senior side coach Luis Enrique takes both he and close friend Ansu Fati to next summer’s European Championship.

Meanwhile, he has just been getting on with his normal life. He lives in Barcelona with his big brother Fernando, who cooks and looks after the apartment. They play a lot of FIFA in the afternoons while Pedri is also a fan of strategy board game Catan. Their parents have visited when possible amid the pandemic and their own work commitments. The only headlines he has made so far off the pitch have been for using a simple supermarket plastic bag to bring his personal effects to the stadium instead of the designer gear favoured by most of his team-mates, and using taxis to get to and from training and games.

“Pedri will keep his feet on the ground. He is very well supported by his family,” says Ledesma. “His parents still have the restaurant — the mother runs the kitchen and his father runs the dining room — but they go there when they can. With the character he has, it would be strange if he changed.

“He was surprised at all the noise made about him taking a taxi or bringing his things in the plastic bag. He says everyone has a bag like that for their clothes, due to COVID. The only thing is he did not then put it inside a Dolce & Gabbana bag, he just carried it in his hand. And if he does not have a driving licence, and his brother also does not have it yet, then he needs to get a taxi. He just gets on with things. He is a very normal kid.”

Back on Tenerife, the locals have recovered from the strangeness of supporting usual rivals Las Palmas last season and the Pena Barcelonista de Tenerife-Tegueste is packed for each Barcelona game.

“I don’t know what he can achieve. I can only say that if he aims for something, he will get it,” Delgado says. “I just hope he keeps going, keeps enjoying this moment and what is to come. I am convinced he will go very, very far. He is still the same kid I coached at nine years old, with the same friends and loved ones. He responds to your messages, shows respect, does not dominate the conversation, asks about you and your family. I am super proud to be able to say that.”

Nobody who knows Pedri thinks that he will plateau now and not aim to keep developing his game and become an even more important player for Barcelona over the next decade or more.

“He says that he wants to improve in everything,” says Ledesma. “Often, he speaks about scoring more goals, his finishing, shots from long range. He scored more for Las Palmas as he took more shots but he always says that he is happier to give an assist than score a goal. But he knows he is learning things every day, being with the best players in the world. It is an incredible opportunity for as long as it lasts at Barca, and I hope he retires there, to keep learning and improving.”

Such a strong confidence in one’s own ability, despite appearing shy and unassuming at first, also brings back the comparison with Pedri’s childhood hero.

“Hopefully they are similar in how they play, although Pedri still has a long way to go — achieving half of what Iniesta has would be marvellous,” says Ledesma. “Although he admires Iniesta a lot, he does not really like the comparisons. He knows he is Pedri and needs to play like Pedri.”

[read-marx-and-lenin]

sorry if this is like. a complex geo-historical question but why do you think fascism came out of europe in particular? my hunch was that it had something to do with westward expansion out of the levant leading to uncrossable ocean long before eastward expansion did? like cuz asia is huge and europe is realtively small in comparison? i'm just guessing though i would love to hear your thoughts.

Sorry for taking a while to answer this ask.

I want to say first, and I don't want to be too critical here and please don't take this personally, but your hunch is flawed and based on geographic essentialism. Human migration eastward happened thousands of years before colonialism was a thing. That's why there were people in the Americas in the first place. In addition, it was specific European powers who spearheaded colonialism in the first place. Not every European nation was on board at the same time, and although the upper classes of each European nation all eventually ended up benefiting from colonialism and imperialism, it is important to remember than not every nation engaged in colonialism directly. Europe was not forced to colonize. The nations that did did so for specific material benefits. Long distance trade was becoming increasingly efficient and profitable, and even before European contact with the Americas, there were colonial efforts underway in Africa, most famously with the colonization of Madeira, Cape Verde, and the Canary Islands, the latter of which resulted in the genocide of the Guanche people, which alongside the genocide of the Taino in Hispaniola became the first of many colonial genocides. Cape Verde was the preeminent slave trading outpost in the Atlantic, and slave plantations were first built in Madeira and the Canaries, serving as models for later plantations in the Americas.

There are many theories for why colonialism occurred where it did and when it did. I am not particularly an expert on this subject, and there is no definitive conclusion. I will say that the lingering effects of the Black Death in Europe likely played a role in both accelerating the collapse of feudalism and providing merchants and the nascent bourgeoisie with new opportunities and motives to further explore and search for new trade routes. The invention of the caravel and carrack and their adoption by Spain and Portugal also made trans-oceanic exploration and trade faster and more efficient. In addition, the Iberian powers had spent the last several centuries engaging in the Reconquista, and that expansionist tradition undoubtedly had effects on the shape of their economies and their approach to foreign relations. It is not a coincidence that Francisco Franco would later be compared to prominent Reconquista-era figures Pelagius and El Cid by his supporters and official propaganda. There is, in my view, a direct ideological throughline from the Crusades and the Reconquista, to colonialism and imperialism, and to fascism. If we are to compare this situation to the Ottoman Empire or the Ming Dynasty, we can see that those powers had no need for expansion or discovering new trade routes, as they were already quite large and powerful and were centers of trade in their own right, so their concerns were towards consolidating and maintaining their status rather than trying to gamble and innovate. This left them vulnerable once their nations declined, and they ultimately failed to keep up with the economic and technological innovations made in Europe as a result of colonial exploitation.

I would hope the comparisons of fascism to colonialism are clear; Aime Cesaire famously portrayed Hitler's rampage across Europe as the principles of colonialism being applied to Europe itself, and Napoleon's conquests have also been compared to both fascism and colonialism. However, I would make an objection to the idea that fascism was exclusively a European phenomenon: you are forgetting that Japan had also become a colonial and imperial power during this period. While the nature of the Japanese imperial political structure and whether it can be described as "fascist" is still debated, I tend to lean towards the side that argues that "fascism" is so vaguely defined in terms of what distinguishes it from colonialism and imperialism more generally that the question becomes meaningless. Whether or not you want to say that Imperial Japan was truly fascist, it was clearly a colonial power in the same vein as the European colonial powers and directly inspired by them. Colonialism was not an endeavor that only the Europeans were capable of pulling off. It was simply the case that European powers were the ones who got there first, and they actively worked whenever they could to ensure nobody else was capable of doing so.

So the question becomes: what is fascism? What makes it distinct from colonialism and imperialism? Which political movements are to be considered fascist and why? This is also contentiously debated to this day. I don't have a good answer to this question. All I can say is that fascism seems to be a particularly violent response by reactionary forces during particularly tumultuous periods in the decline of capitalism. It makes sense then that fascism would first occur in regions that are particularly economically developed. And it should also be said that fascism is obviously not a necessary stage for capitalism to go through but rather one possible form late-stage capitalism can take if reactionary forces feel threatened enough and are strong enough to establish it. If we want to prevent fascism from reoccurring, we need to nip it in the bud by depriving it of its material basis before it can grow large enough to re-establish itself.

(I'm open to hearing anyone's corrections or criticisms or suggestions! Please feel free to comment with your own opinions.)

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The prehistoric Cueva Pintada (Painted Cave) located on the island of Grand Canary in the Canary Islands archipelago. The cave was discovered by accident in 1862 during agricultural digging work. When it was first found, it contained skeletons, pottery and other utensils. The paintings themselves consist of precisely delineated geometrical patterns painted in ochre, a pigment derived from minerals. Archaeologists think that, due to their regular distribution (usually in series of twelve), they could be a sort of calendar. They were created by the Canarii, the indigenous inhabitants of the island prior to the Spanish invasion in the 15th century. The Canarii (also known as the Guanche) were of North African origins, and genetic testing of their mummies found they were closely related to Moroccans, Berbers and Spaniards.

The first carbon-14 analysis made on the cave was on the wall paintings. This gave no results because the paint used carried no trace of carbon, being entirely non-organic. Some vegetal remains of a plant from the family Lauraceae were found in the mortar in the walls. These remains were dated between 1049 and 1257 BCE. Some fragments of pine wood were dated between 601 and 994 CE.

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TEROHISA, ESCLAVA CANARIA.

José Farrujia

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TEROHISA

El 4 de abril de 1494, la joven guanche Terohisa, de 24 años de edad, fue vendida en el mercado esclavista de Valencia por Vicente Pérez, mercader de la ciudad, al precio de 34 libras.

Ese año y el de 1496 fue cuando más esclavos guanches se vendieron en Valencia. Ese precio era el que solía pagarse por las mujeres, que eran más caras que los varones.

Terohisa nació y vivió en Anaga, donde era valorada entre los suyos como experta recogedora de sal y como tanadora: sus manos elaboraban los mejores guapiles y tamarcos de piel de todo este extremo de la isla.

Pero, sobre todo, Terohisa era muy apreciada entre su gente porque desde niña tuvo un protagonismo muy especial en las celebraciones guanches.

Terohisa había nacido un mes de febrero, en la fría época de invierno, justo cuando más brilla en el cielo la estrella Canopo, y esto fue tomado como un buen augurio por su gente.

Para los guanches, Canopo era la estrella principal del cielo, la más antigua, la madre de todas las estrellas y la que marcaba el inicio de su calendario lunar.

Terohisa era la enviada de Canopo.

Por eso, desde niña, Terohisa formó parte del grupo de mujeres sabias, las encargadas de organizar los ritos y celebraciones de los nuevos ciclos, los renaceres, coincidiendo con la llegada del invierno y, más adelante, del verano, cuando la luz todo lo inundaba.

Por eso, aquel día, el 4 de abril de 1494, cuando Terohisa fue vendida como esclava, se produjo un eclipse solar.

Ese día, la luna tapó al sol para que Magec no pudiera ver la pérdida de Terohisa.

Ese día fue señal de mal augurio para los guanches, porque ella, la hija que llegó con Canopo, ya no estaba.

Ese día, la oscuridad inundó Anaga.

#indígenas_canarios #memorias #historia #patrimoniocultural #legado #guanche #islascanarias #tenerife #anaga

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[raging-guanche]

so, now spanish people are whitewashing A MUMMY.

[psikonauti]

Óscar Domínguez (Spanish,1906-1957)

Cueva de guanches (Guanche Cave), 1935

Oil on canvas

[whencyclopedia]

Treaty of Tordesillas

The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas (Tordesilhas) was an agreement between the monarchs of Spain and Portugal to divide the world between them into two spheres of influence. The imaginary dividing line ran down the centre of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the Americas to Spain and West Africa and anything beyond the Cape of Good Hope to Portugal.

The agreement between the two states was fully tested when the Spanish found a maritime route to Asia via the Pacific Ocean, Spain conquered the Aztecs and Incas, Portugal sailed into the Indian Ocean and beyond, and settlements were established in Portuguese Brazil. With this colonial expansion, the two kingdoms squabbled over states and peoples that had never even heard of these two small countries at the end of Europe.

The North Atlantic

The Portuguese started modestly with their empire-building, first colonizing the uninhabited North Atlantic island groups of Madeira from 1420, the Azores from 1439, and Cape Verde from 1462. When the treacherous Cape Bojador was navigated in 1434 by the explorer Gil Eannes, the Portuguese were able to access the trade and resources in West Africa without dealing with Islamic North African traders. The new king, John II of Portugal (r. 1481-1495), pushed for more and so São Tomé and Principe were colonized from 1486. However, yet another island group, the inhabited Canary Islands, were prized by both Spain and Portugal, and the colonial competition heated up considerably.

Prince Henry the Navigator (aka Infante Dom Henrique, 1394-1460) had organised the Portuguese expeditions to explore and develop the North Atlantic islands but his ambitions in the Canaries were repeatedly thwarted. Spanish forces and the indigenous Guanches repelled the Portuguese three times, but the matter remained unsettled. Spain and Portugal were at war between 1474 and 1479, and this period saw a brief occupation of Santiago in the Cape Verde group by Spanish forces. The war came to a close with the peace treaty of Alcáçovas-Toledo (1479-80), an agreement which also saw the first attempts to settle which geographical areas should belong to the Spanish and which to the Portuguese. Spain’s claim over the Canaries was recognised, as was Portugal’s over Madeira, the Azores, Cape Verde, and all trade in West Africa.

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Historic ramble I suppose but as a historian I do get a bit offended when people refer to Al-Andalus simply as an "Arab kingdom(s)", since many of the previous people there who also invaded the region (such as the Visigoths) did convert to Islam and some retained their positions in power, and many of the "Arab" rulers were actually Imazighen.

It's more accurate to call it an Amazigh ""kingdom(s)"" (DNA research proves that many Portuguese and Spanish, especially those in the south like Algarve and Andalusia, have the most Amazigh ancestors outside of North Africa, which is why they are visually similar to one another and tend to have darker skin). Even more so than the Canary Islands, which were entirely habited by indigenous Imazighen (like the Guanches from Tenerife) prior to Castillian colonization. Which is sad because even if many Canarians today have indigenous Amazigh ancestors they culture has been nearly lost because of genocide (even if many Canarians are trying to reclaim their Amazigh/North African identity, which is a story for another time - and I wonder if you'd be interested in it).

You also mentioned this before I believe!

The way I started reading the first few words and was expecting some history revisionism (that’s usually what I get in my ask box about “Arabs and North Africa”) but I got pleasantly surprised. Cause yup while the conquest itself was done by both Arabs and Imazighen the people who actually mixed with the local and lived in Al Andalus were mostly Imazighen the Arabs left super fast their goal was just spreading Islam.

A southern Portuguese has more Imazighen ancestry than I, an Arabized Algerian, have actual Arab ancestry. The amount is still under 10% (I think it’s 6 or 8 I don’t remember the study exactly) but comparatively they have exactly 0 actual Arab ancestry.

I knew that Canarians were Imazighen (I’m also claiming Sicily by the way) but I didn’t know about the reclaiming of their Imazighen identity it seems really interesting!