Fisterra, the end of the Camino?
'White foam,
gray the waves;
beyond sunset
my course leads.
Salt is foam,
and free is the wind;
I hear how it roars
the intense sea.
Goodbye friends.
Raised the candles,
the east wind
las tenses tense ... '(1)
Fisterra. The old Finis Terrae. The end of the earth. The kingdom of the sunset, inside of whose waters there lives a terrible monster that swallows the sun every sunset, to regurgitate it with the dawn.
The kingdom of the ancestors, the kingdom of the dead. The Amenti of the ancient Egyptians ... And now what, the pilgrim asks himself when he arrives. There is only one answer: now another Way begins. The Way of Return.
Gone are the old boots, as offerings to the voracious manes and the new steps sound differently. If the Way of Ida went to Death, the Way of Return returns to Life. They are the two roads of the World.
The cycle that the Sun travels every day. And between one and the other - the pilgrim knows it - the Miracle is produced. That is to say, the Transformation.
Iza, then, like Bilbo the sails, pilgrim, and part with the east wind, straining the moorings to plunge into a sea full of dreams.
Bibliography:
(1) John Ronald Reuen Tolkien: 'The last song of Bilbo', Editorial Planeta, S.A., 2010.
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Tanbien en mi bucket list... que nunca termina! I en el camino de Santiago... Bellisimo!
Este era el fin del mundo, al que tanto miedo le tenían los legionarios romanos que invadieron la Península. Pensaban que no había nada más allá. Es un lugar extraño, hermoso y fascinante, donde se siente la magia del pasado, de la tradición. Si alguna vez vas, espera el atardecer, que es cuando el mar se traga al sol en un lecho de espuma y algas. En fin, es un lugar muy simbólico y muy poético.
Ui, como lo describes me da ganas de ir con my camara... Un dia si puedo!
Estoy seguro de que le sacarías mucho partido a la cámara. Ese lugar, desde luego, inspira multitud de sentimientos
Me lo imagino... hasta ese dia voy soñando.
Y no dejes nunca de hacerlo, de soñar: los sueños es lo único que no nos pueden robar.
Si, de facto.
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