HALO

Ancient legend tells of a city in the region of Thessaly, founded by the mythical king Atamante and depopulated after the conquest of Parmenión, with bright coins that reflected a disc of light in the sky that blinded to unwary and ambitious.

The grandparents Guaquerí narrate the history of a brave chieftain-sailor who asked to Maraca for a light truce for his canoes fleet before the imminent storm. A ring of persistent clarity was opened between the clouds and while the warriors-fishermen sailed across the waves from the Spring of Pearls until the Coast of the Crabs, the god maintained in suspense his cane of seeds in the sky.

An Antillean minstrel speaks in his verses about the pact of blood among the labradors of the future with the solar energy to illuminate the darkness in the roots of yesterday, looking for the flowering of the human condition.

How much truth and how false there is in every story, I do not know... But I saw the light to resist the clouds an April that wanted to move forward the rain. I looked at the light saying “life“, in the middle of dark shadows … and I believed.

Original text and photos of @tupamalo

Camera: Canon Rebel T4i
Settings: ISO 100, 1/800, F20, 18 mm.
Except photo 2: ISO 100, 1/1000, F22, 18 mm.

Video: Leyenda. Lyrics and music: Silvio Rodríguez. Cover: Los Bunkers. Fuente