#ceuta

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Prince Henry the Navigator during the Conquest of Ceuta by Jorge Colaço

[laiapolypharmakos]

Hyperfixating on Calypso so here I present mine:

🐚Aτλαντος θυγατηρ, Καλυψώ, δία θεαων🐚

(Daughter of Atlas, Calypso, beautiful goddess)

I based her look in this headdress I found in google:

I didn’t even investigate the name or if it was a true headdress in Ancient Greece I just saw a form of a sea urchin:

Couldn’t help it🤪 I highly associate Calypso to beaches and these more or less unspiked can be found in beaches.

My personal theory is that Ogygia is located somewhere between Ceuta and Melilla, although most who place it on the North African coast tend to lean more towards the coast of present-day Libya, but oh well, headcanons 😜

For the earring, while looking for historical jewelry from this area, I stopped to look at all the Amazigh traditions of Morocco, but I didn't think Calypso could be representative of a society when she mainly lives on an island (i.e., isolated) with her nymphs (yes, could be considered a society, but idk the amount of nymphs or idk🙁 don’t give me vibes of amazighs).

I looked a little more and found that the oldest jewelry in the world consists of perforated sea snails (Collumbela rustica) dating back more than 150,000 years and were found in a cave in Atlantic Morocco (Atlas lol). The cave is called Bizmoune Cave in the province of Essaouira. yeah a little far from mediterranean region but still Calypso is said to live in a cave and also has beach because she lives in an island. For me Calypso and cave are synonyms, so couldn’t be in another way.

⬆️ Set of necklace beads made from Columbella rustica

⬆️ Collumbella rustica shells 🐚 also present in the Mediterranean Sea

In the rectangle the location of the cave; Ceuta is home to top of the small horn that forms part of the Strait of Gibraltar and Melilla is marked in the map.

Aaaaaaaaghhhhh Calypso why you did that? I would have love you so much😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

And yes, I'm putting it here because, as you can probably tell, I'm in love with the western Mediterranean and I want my piece of the pie (even if it's not the best or the most reputable😂😂). And also because it's at the foot of the Atlas (yes, the mountain range, but also her petrified father🙃), taking liberties with the passage in the Odyssey saying that Calypso instructs him to keep the Bear to his left while sailing (aka at some point of the west😀)

[viejospellejos]

Unas chicas persiguen a Piqué en Ceuta tras el partido del FC Andorra poniéndole la canción que Shakira le dedicó:

[miku-earth]

SPANISH MIKU (Ceuta version) by freefentanyl069

[tearsofrefugees]

At least 44 migrants arrived swimming in Ceuta, 35 minors

It was a weekend filled with migrant arrivals in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in Morocco, where despite adverse weather conditions, 44 peopl

[portushit]

Una pequeña aclaración:

Ceuta es española desde 1580 y Melilla desde 1497 mientras que Marruecos no es Marruecos hasta 1956.

LA GRAN HIPOCRESÍA

Y también la flor de arriba ser como: "Marruecos visto por España".

Y también la flor de abajo ser como: "Marruecos visto por los países islámicos del hemisferio oriental".

[coochiequeens]

Spain.....

Spanish Anthropology Professor Forced To Teach With Security Detail After Threats From Trans Activist Student Group - Reduxx

A student organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is calling for the expulsion of a prominent professor of Social Anthr

By Nuria Muíña García February 29, 2024

A student organization at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) is calling for the expulsion of a prominent professor of Social Anthropology, alleging she was “transphobic.” The Socialist Youth Organization, also known as OJS, is demanding the termination of Dr. Silvia Carrasco, after she had been giving talks discussing the necessity of biological sex classifications in anthropology at the beginning of the semester.

On February 12, the OJS released a video on social media titled “let’s organize against transphobia.” In it, a female student read a speech targeting Carrasco and slamming the university for allowing “untouchable academic freedom” on sensitive subjects.

“Today, classes return to the UAB campus, ideological control returns, reactionary and transphobic speeches return to our classrooms,” she said. “Under the banner of untouchable academic freedom, they allow professors to impart content under ideological and scientific criteria, turning the classroom into a space for the production and legitimization of reactionary and… transphobic speeches… typical of social democratic politics, narratives that try to explain gender oppression from a sexual essentialism from biologist positions.”

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SPAIN: Concerns About "Trans Fraud" Emerge After Dozens Of Male Civil Servants In One Small Community Change Their Legal Gender But Maintain

Concerns about “trans fraud” have emerged after dozens of male civil servants in one small community changed their gender identity reportedl

By Nuria Muíña García March 6, 2024

Concerns about “trans fraud” have emerged after dozens of male civil servants in one small community changed their gender identity reportedly just to get benefits allocated for females. The wave of gender change approvals follows the implementation of the Trans Law, which eased the regulations surrounding legal identity changes.

In the small, autonomous city of Ceuta alone, it has been revealed that 37 male civil servants have changed their legal gender. Of them, the vast majority are associated with the Military, National Police, Civil Guard, or Local Police, and these new “females” have curiously all chosen to retain their male names and continue their lives “as men.”

One of the men has come forward to boast of his success, stating that he changed his legal gender after the Trans Law was implemented in Spain in March of 2023.

Roberto Perdigones, a 35-year-old Army corporal, changed his legal sex to “female” after deciding he identified as an “intersex bigender” person. Perdigones explained that “externally, I am a straight man and internally a lesbian woman.”

Perdigones says he first discovered that changing his registered sex would afford him benefits after reading an update in the National Police Exam syllabus with a list of “possible” gender identities one may have. Perdigones found a gender description he felt he matched, so pursued the change.

“On the outside, I feel like a heterosexual man, but inside I am a lesbian woman, which is what prevails. That’s why I made the legal change to female,” he says. “I did it because I could,” Perdigones admitted to El Español.

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