Many mornings, from May to September, to get on my tool to address Vila (Eivissa) way of my work obligations, I see a cyclical phenomenon Single day is repeated each year. Although the car has passed through the car wash the previous day, the next day will be covered with a thin layer of reddish-brown dust ... (my father, who has since adolescence in Ibiza, told me years ago ... it Algerian dust, dust from the Sahara to the south wind brings in suspension and here is, of memory).
As you know, Ibiza is an island in the Mediterranean. What many people may not know is that the port of Ibiza is less nautical miles off the coast of Algeria to the port of Barcelona, \u200b\u200bfor example.
... There is a curious detail. looking at a map we see that the island's largest port and largest city, is facing south towards Africa ... The reason is that the first civilized inhabitants of this island, the Phoenician-Punic, came from Lebanon current (first) and Tunisia (after). Logistically, now that most of the goods come to us come from Barcelona or Valencia that is a nonsense and a huge fuel bills, there exist as port on the northern coast, facing the Iberian Peninsula, in San Antonio Abad (settlement of Roman origin that just derives from the Latin Portus Magnus) ... but who, many centuries before, did go down in history on this island, who brought him the script, currency, architecture, drainage, .... were African.
If Ibiza (the gentleman who has the store or open small stall ...
.. until late at night) is something ... is Phoenician, at least in a high percentage of their genes. August 8 is the day of San Ciriaco. Many of you will tell you that onomastics not absolutely nothing, but for the Ibiza "festa de la terra" ... the day that everything changed. The day in 1235 when a handful of marine-Catalan-Aragonese fighters hungry lousy, iron and rags covered with rags, burst the walls of Dalt Vila and entered the blood and fire in the town for this prosperous city was then called Yebisah.
One of the many changes that suffered one of the oldest cities in the current Spain (the second oldest, after three millennium old Gadir-Cádiz, again the Phoenicians ...) one of the many changes that Ibiza became the Ibosim of the Phoenician-Punic, (a town with miles of sewer and street lighting that traded throughout the Mediterranean and the Atlantic side ... while on the peninsula or in the rest of Europe still living in huts and had not left the Neolithic period) then the Romans Ebusus or Yebisah of the Hispano. Ibiza Today
spoken in Catalan and Castilian ... (and in many languages, but these two are the officers under the Constitution). Our cities are named after saints (Sant Joan, Sant Josep, Sant Antoni, Santa Eulalia ...) Well, we have the flags, we worship the God and speak the languages \u200b\u200bof the white man, European and Christian ... but with music, dance and folklore .... oh, man, there could not .... 
I attached (no mercy no ... but is that I consider interesting) long passages from various writings of the researcher and musicologist Daniel Escandell Ibiza
"... The ancient goddess of Ibiza and Carthage was Tanit, who personified the moon . In older devotions, was the Phoenician Astarte, Isis the Egyptian, Greek Artemis or Roman Diana. For all the people old, the moon was more sacred. Even Christianity escaped this powerful influence. The Virgin Mary herself, in her title of Immaculate , has among its attributes a moon crescent. That Ibizan dances are ancient lunar origin is clearly indicated women's movements in "sa llarga" or "sa curta." Among the big jumps male dancer, the woman is facing (full moon). Suddenly, turns ninety degrees, showing half the picture (quarter). At like the moon in the sky, the woman is a curve. end of it, turn 180 degrees and shows his other half (crescent). And and again and again until the end of the dance. With the peculiarity that never turns his back.
Another dance, called "ses Dotze rodades" (the twelve laps) represents these same twelve laps gives the Moon around the Earth in over a year. This dance, typical wedding, sometimes dancing with only nine "rodades" another allusion to the moon and female fertility, as they are nine lunar months required for the gestation of a human being .... "
"... As for musical instruments, which more general and current used is the" xeremies "a curious double clarinet reeds, also called "Xeremies claim" or "double xeremies." In no other people in Europe see this instrument. His background seems to have found the most remote in the double "Maite" of ancient Egypt, not only in form but also for his prints or brodats "virtually identical. .. "
" ... As for the songs are divided into two classes: those properly so called, "cançons" and the "glosses" (glosses). In the first, the performer steps up each verse with the enigmatic and distinctive "ye ... ye ... ye ..." or "... yeu yeu yeu ... ...", sounds of unknown origin.
The glosses are more modern and lack of this roll, very similar to singing Berber North Africa. Do not forget that the island was occupied by the Hispano for three and a half centuries. Probably the oldest kind of song in North Africa and the Middle East was known as "Huda", a word that means heading, bearing. It was a song typical of desert nomads and Bedouins. It was a very simple monody of stanzas, like the song Ibiza, which invariably ended with this roll: Hedia e, e Hedia, e Jeddah Jeddah ye. This phrase was intended to keep caravans together in the dark of night and the desert. ... "
" ... The Bedouin tribes were gathered and rise to two powerful nations:
The Almoravids S / IX and Almohads S / X. Both towns were established in Ibiza for more than a century here obviously left the imprint of his music.
Ibiza The ancient isolation has made it possible for our island is something like a living museum. A permanent pool of multiple cultures of other villages, who leaped over time and history, are not memories but everyday forms that have reached our present.
The fact that Ibiza is preserved in the oldest style of Arabic song has an important corollary: that the ancient cultures of the peoples Bedouin nomads of the Sahara desert and are the heirs of an important prehistoric culture known as the Tassili culture, which flourished between eight thousand and five thousand years ago. Possibly, for the sake of the island, Ibiza's music and older songs are a witness that prehistoric fossil, the largest in North Africa. This solution would
geographical and chronological origin of the mystery that our ancient song
presents to scholars and researchers in early musical forms
who until recently considered the oldest music the world,
still alive, belonged to China and Japan, with some four thousand years old
. Music and song play five notes, while the
Ibiza, and here's the surprise, he plays four notes, which
shows a much greater antiquity. Many musicologists who
say, to hear the songs of Ibiza, with a living fossil found ...."
For many days each spring and summer, I'll be cleaning up red dust windshield, I like to think ... Above explanations weather, dust that is the spirit of Ibosim and Yebisah, which tries to resist, as it can, to oblivion.
brief explanation of the pictures ... from top to bottom
1.-For several days each spring and summer, I'll be cleaning up red dust from the windshield ... I like to think, above the weather explanation, that Dust is the spirit of Yebisah Ibosim and it resists, as it can, to oblivion.
Health, Peace and Love to all.
brief explanation of the pictures ... from top to bottom
1 .- Pied Phoenician and dreamy eivissenc Eivissenc
2 .- Ca (Ibizan hound) breed, native now the island and this symbol of Middle Eastern origin.
4 and 4 .- headlines the day before yesterday day 19 and day 20 in the Journal of Ibiza
5. and 7 - Women's Moroccan traditional wedding costume and traditional attire Berber Women
6. and 8 - Ibizan Women in traditional dress, note the resemblance to the Berber women in the habit of wearing jewelry in the trunk, the "enterprises"
9 And 10 Videos downloaded from youtube i glosses Eivissenques pagès ball.
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