Saint George and the Dragon

Legend of St. George

The life of St. George is shrouded in legend. He was born in Cappadocia of noble Christian parents. On the death of his father, he lived with his mother in Palestine. He held an important post in the Roman Army - the rank of Tribune during the reign of Emperor Diodelsian (245-313). When the persecution of the Christians by the Emperor started, St. George personally complained to him. He was imprisoned tortured and beheaded.

In the legend of St. George, he is usually portrayed with a dragon. One of the legends is of Saint George rescuing the princess in the town of Silence.

"In the town of Silence, in Libya, there was a dragon, who was appeased by being fed two sheep a day; when these failed, the townsfolk offered by lot one of their young people. One day the lot fell on the King's daughter, who was led out to the sacrifice, dressed in her wedding gown. St. George came along and slaughtered the dragon and rescued the princess".

A cult dedicated to St. George can be traced back to as early as the 4th century A.D. and it was his subsequent veneration as a military saint in early Christianity, which established the nature of the St. George's legend. Early evidence for this can be seen in the Byzantine Empire of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

Becoming humans

BECOMING HUMAN…


I am delighted with the becoming human’s documentary, it’s a really good one and I have enjoyed a lot with all the theories that they explain about the human’s ancestors.

From my point of view, the more information we have about our past, the most prepared we are for the future.

To know about when and where the human’s life begins it’s an important fact, but nowadays we’ve got a very little clear information, and I think that the most interesting is coming!
-I would (...) stand out the discovery of Lucy’s skeleton.


Lucy had a small brain and was only about one meter tall, the pelvis showed it had been a female, and the team named her Lucy after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." I couldn’t imagine the happiness that his discoverer felt at that moment!

Another important point explained at the documentary it’s the moment of Bipedalism. In 1978, Mary Leakey discovered ancient footprints preserved in the ground around what was once a water hole at Laetoli, Tanzania. These prints showed clearly that small primates walked on two feet there. This put upright walking even further back in time.
But the most important discovered for me is the aptitude to be conscious, what is the same, the “consciousness”.

Sometimes I wonder: Are human beings alone conscious, or are other creatures also conscious? Is an animal such as a dog, for example, conscious?

Yesterday, IN class and with the explanation that we received we could learns that chimpanzees and gorillas may not be able to speak as we do, but this is not because they lack something in their brains; they lack a voice. They have no larynx, or voice-box, and cannot move their tongues as freely as we can.

For one reason or another, human beings evolved slightly differently. We have a well-developed voice-box, and after the first year of life the tongue frees up, permitting the complex sounds necessary for speech. With these two advances, everything changed.

This kind of art representations approach us to our ancestors and to know more about how they feel, how they think…


In short, I think that human(NO S) evolution IS an interesting topic that affect us directly and that MAKES us to pay attention and to be aware of the new discoveries.