La Macarena, Virgin of Hope
Seville, Spain



Portuguese Bullfighting

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The Buried Mirror:
The Virgin and the Bull

(UM DULUTH Martin Library DVD DP48 .E8713 2010)

(59 min., 1991, UM DULUTH Martin Library Video Cassette VC 3933, pt. 1)

El Espejo Enterrado - La Virgen y El Toro
(presentado por Carlos Fuentes)
(link, in Spanish)

Bullfighting

Mexico

Portugal

Spain

Catalonia

Basques

Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France
Bear (left). Aurochs and rhinoceros (right)
Source: Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002), p. 335

". . . The mirror, for American Indians, . . . symbolized power, the sun, the Earth, its four corners, and its people. Now, an extraordinary 'mirror' is being held up to the Old and New worlds to reflect the diverse cultures of Spanish-speaking countries and peoples, together with the themes, institutions, beliefs, and symbols that have endured or changed through time."

"Vibrant and illuminating, The Buried Mirror is an epic portrait of a remarkable history. . . ."

"Best-selling Mexican author Carlos Fuentes looks for his forebears in the mix of people that created Latin America: Spanish, Arab, Jewish, Indian and Africa. He asks what is unique in their culture that is cause for celebration in the 500th anniversary year of Columbus."

"His quest takes him from the quayside of Vera Cruz to Spain, to the dark caves of Altamira, the harsh sunlight of the bullring and the stamping feet of the flamenco dancer. . . ." -- Media Resources Center, University of North Carolina

Carlos Fuentes -- Academy of Achievement

• Fuentes, Carlos. The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Marriner, 1999.

• Zacarias Moussaoui, 22 April 2002, on trial for compliciancy in the 9/11 attacks, prayed to Allah in court for the return of Al-Andalus (Andalucia), among other things.
  
  
  • "Zacarias Moussaoui (Arabic: زكريا موسوي, Zakariyyā Mūsawī; born May 30, 1968) is a French citizen who pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to conspiring to kill citizens of the United States as part of the September 11 attacks. As a result of his conviction, he is serving 6 life sentences without parole at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado" -- Wikipedia
    
    
  • "He then prayed to Allah for the return of Al-Andalus (Spain and Portugal) and the deliverance of Ceuta, Melilla, India and Kashmir to the Muslims. He also prayed for the destruction of several nations—including Israel (and the Jewish people as a whole), Russia, Canada, UK, Australia, and the U.S.—and for the liberation of Palestine, Chechnya, and Afghanistan." -- Wikipedia
    
    
• "It’s a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism." -- Steve Bannon, from a summer 2014 talk via Skype to a Vatican meeting of the conservative Catholic group Institute for Human Dignity ("Steve Bannon's Islamophobic film script just one example of anti-Muslim views", The Guardian, 03 February 2017)