Artemius / Artemio

Fiona

So now I am a thief.

Así que ahora soy una ladrona.








Michael

How could you go on your own to threaten the Goblin Men? That was rash and pointless. Creatures like that never listen to reason.

¿Como pudisteis ir por vuestra cuenta a amenazar a los goblins? Eso fue precipitado e inutil. Las criaturas como esas nunca atienden a razones.





Don Quijote

Whoever steals from a thief should be sentenced to a hundred years of pardon.
They stole the forest elves houses. All you did was run off with a shoe.

Quien roba a un ladrón, cien años de perdón. Ellos robaron las casas de los duendes del bosque. Vosotras sólo huisteis con un zapato.


Michael

Is that...the shoe you stole?

¿Es...ese el zapato que robasteis?








Fiona

Yes, it is.

Sí, lo es.








Michael

That shoe is mine.

¡Ese zapato es mío!









Don Quijote


Is it one of the shoes you are always looking for?

¿Es uno de los zapatos que siempre andas buscando?








Michael


It is. It´s one of the pair I lost. Fiona, did they have the other?

Lo es. Es uno del par que perdí. Fiona, ¿tenian el otro?








Fiona


There was only one shoe like this one hanging from a cane that the goblin man carried. There were other shoes, but none like this one.

Sólo habia un zapato como este colgado de un bastón que llevaba el goblin. Había otros zapatos, pero uno igual, no.







Michael

Thank heavens you took the shoe. Shoes made by leprechauns have certainn magic powers. You can´t imagine the trouble they could have caused if they´d had the pair. Now more than ever I need to find the pair of this one.

Menos mal que te llevaste este zapato. Los zapatos hechos por léprecans tienen poderes. No os podéis imaginar la que se hubiese liado si ellos hubiesen tenido el par. Ahora más que nunca necesito encontrar la pareja de éste.




Fiona

Then going to Goblin Market wasn´t such a bad idea.

Entonces ir al mercado de los goblins no fue tan mala idea.









Michael

¡Pero no por vuestra cuenta! Debisteis decirnos que pensabais ir. ¡Como si nosotros no estuviésemos intentando poner fin al problema del Bosque Triturado.

But not by yourselves! You should have told us ou were planning to go. As if we weren´t trying to put an end to the problem of Minced Woods.






Branna

Doing it Mungo Binky´s way will take forever. We need a quicker solution.

Haciéndolo como exige Mungo Binky no acabaréis nunca. Necesitamos una solución más rápida.








Michael

I knew there would be trouble here when I returned. I went to Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I stayed with my friend Dan Bloom and his uncle, Malachi Bloom. Malachi is the major authority on the cabala. One of his friends, Mrs. June Moon, predicted my future casting seashells. I´m not superstitious and I don´t believe in those things but the truth is that she told me there would be a bunch of problems waiting to be solved when I returned to my blog.

Sabía que habría problemas cuando volviese aquí.
Fuí al carnaval de Nueva Orleans. Me quede en casa de mi amigo Dan Bloom y su tío Malachi Bloom, la máxima autoridad en el cábala. Una de sus amigas, la reina del vudú, Mrs. June Moon, predijo mi futuro echando unos caracoles. Yo no soy supersticioso y no creo en esas cosas pero la verdad es que me dijo que me encontraría con un montón de problemas al volver a mi blog.

And Malachi said that three Romans would solve the first of my problems for me.

Y Malachi dijo que tres romanos solucionarían el primero de mis problemas.



Nauta

The truth is that I have been thinking about this affair and this brought to my mind a wood near a lake in which I once sailed. It was a huge boat, one of those pleasure boats for tourists.

La verdad es que he estado pensando en este asunto y esto me hizo recordar un bosque junto a un lago en el que una vez navegué. Era un barco enorme, de esos para turistas.















Alpin

I want to ride on that boat!

¡Quiero montar en ese barco!















Nauta

That is Lake Nemi, also known as Diana´s Mirror. Diana is the goddess of the moon and of forests.

Se trata del Lago Nemi, también conocido como El Espejo de Diana. Diana es la diosa de la luna y de los bosques.




















The thing about this wood is that it had a rather special guard. A fellow known as the King of the Woods. Well then, this man was originally a fugitive slave that had sought refuge in the woods. The authorities couldn´t bring him out so they made a deal with him. They decided that he could stay in there if he could defend the woods from anyone who wanted to harm it. At first, all went well because sensible people don´t harm forests, especially if they are consecrated to a goddess. And defended by a fiend.
Lo interesante de este bosque es que tenía un guardián algo especial. Un tipo conocido como el rey del bosque. Bien, pues este hombre era originalmente un esclavo fugitivo que se refugió en el bosque. Las autoridades no podían sacarle de ahí, así que hicieron un pacto con el. Decidieron que se podía quedar ahí dentro si lo defendía de cualquiera que quisiese hacer daño a ese bosque. Al principio todo fue bien porque la gente sensata no hace daño a los bosques y mucho menos si estan consagrados a una diosa. Y defendido por un energúmeno.

Nauta
Things got a bit complicated when another fugitive slave entered the woods thinking of escaping from his master by stealing the job of  King of the Woods. He decided to challenge the King of the Woods to a duel. Mortal combat it would be. If the king lost, he would die and the second slave would be the new King of the Woods.

La cosa se complicó cuando otro esclavo fugitivo entró en el bosque pensando librarse de su amo pisándole el puesto de trabajo al rey del bosque. Decidió retar al rey en un duelo a muerte. Si el rey perdía, moriría y el segundo esclavo sería el nuevo rey del bosque.

Michael

I have a feeling I´m not going to like this story.

Este cuento no me estás gustando nada.




Alpin

I think it´s cool.

Pues yo creo que mola.

Nauta

To draw out the king, he broke off a branch from a tree. The king was furious. He fought to defend his territory and won. So he continued being King of the Woods. The trouble was that after that fugitive slaves kept coming to the woods. One of them managed to beat the first King of the Woods, but he too died at the hands of another slave. The slaves killed each other and the winner was king only as long as he could defend the forest.
Para retar al rey, rompió la rama de un árbol. El rey se enfureció, lucho por defender su territorio y ganó. Así que siguió siendo el rey del bosque. Lo malo es que a partir de entonces no dejaban de llegar esclavos fugitivos a ese bosque. Uno de ellos logró acabar con el primer rey del bosque. pero él también murió a manos de otro esclavo. Los esclavos se mataban entre sí y el ganadar era rey sólo mientras pudiese defender su bosque.


Michael

Tell me this has nothing to do with our forest.

Dime que esto no tiene nada que ver con nuestro bosque.





Nauta
But it does. This story made me think of a certain young man I know who is looking for a job. This young man belonged to a pirate band that wreaked havoc on the Mediterranean Sea. I was sent to capture them and eventually I did. They sent the pirates to the circus to be killed by the gladiators but my young friend was saved because he turned out to be meaner than anyone else.
Lo tiene. Este cuento me hace pensar en un joven que conozco y que está buscando un empleo. Este chico perteneció a una banda de piratas que sembró el pánico en el mar Mediterráneo. Yo fui enviado a capturarlos y conseguí hacerlo. Mandaron a los piratas al circo para que los matasen los gladiadores, pero mi joven amigo se salvó porque resultó ser más bruto que ninguno.


Michael

This is moving from bad to worse.
Esto va de mal a peor.







Alpin
Triple sweet.

Triple guay.

Nauta
The public managed to get him a pardon and he became a gladiator. I am only going to add that he died young and once he was dead he realized how absurd his life had been. ¿What if we hire this young man to defend our forest?

El público logró que le perdonasen la vida y se convirtió en gladiador. Sólo voy a añadir que murió joven y una vez muerto se dió cuenta de lo absurdo de la forma en que había vivido. ¿Y si contratamos a este joven para que defienda nuestro bosque?

Michael


You want us to stick a murderer in Minced Forest? Well, why not? That´s probably the only thing there isn´t in there. It´s all we need.
¿Quieres que metamos a un asesino en el Bosque Triturado? Claro, ¿por qué no? Es probablemente lo único que no hay ahí dentro. ¡Lo que faltaba!



Don Quijote
There are precedents of knights guarding forests. Sancho and I could patrol Minced Woods. We needn´t hire a Sicarian.
Hay antencedentes de caballeros que han guardado bosques. Sancho y yo podríamos patrullar el Bosque Triturado. No hace falta contratar a un sicario.






Michael
Eh...better not. We´re very busy preparing the invasion of England. It´s essential that we reserve ourselves for that.

Eh...mejor no. Estamos muy ocupados preparando la invasión de Inglaterra. Es fundamental reservarnos para eso.



Nauta

He hasn´t killed anyone since he died and that was about two thousand years ago.

No ha matado a nadie desde que ha muerto, y de eso hace unos dos mil años.

Glorvina
Does that mean he is something like a reformed ex-convict?
¿Eso quiere decir que es algo así como un ex-convicto reformado?





Nauta
Very reformed. And he´s a Roman, like I am.

Muy reformado. Y es romano, como yo.

Michael

The second Roman. But hiring someone like that would be like payng a sicarian. Wouldn´t it be like taking justice into our own hands?

El segundo romano. Pero contratar a alguien así sería como pagar a un sicario. ¿No sería como tomarnos la justicia por la mano?

Alpin
Sicarian. What a sweet word! What does it mean?

Sicario. ¡Mola la palabra! ¿Qué quiere decir?

Michael
A sicarian is a criminal one pays to kill someone else. But why am I telling you this?
Un sicario es un criminal al que uno paga para que mate a otro. ¿Pero por qué te estoy contando esto?





Glorvina
If he is reformed, he´s no longer a criminal. And he´s not going to kill anyone. We´re all more or less immortal here. That´s one advantage we have over live humans.

Si se ha reformado ya no es un criminal. Y no va a matar a nadie. Aquí somos todos más o menos inmortales. Esa es una ventaja que tenemos sobre los humanos que están vivos.

Fiona
It will be more like hiring a detective.
Será más bien como contratar a un detective.







Branna
Or a security guard.

O a un guardia de seguridad.

Glorvina
A forest ranger. There´s nothing wrong about that. And I´m all for reinserting ex-convicts in society.
A un guardia forestal. No hay nada de malo en eso. Y yo estoy a favor de reinsertar a los ex-convictos en la sociedad.


Nauta
Well, it would be more like inserting him in a forest. He´s a bit of a loner. He´s willing to to live in there all the time.

Bueno, a este más bien le insertaríamos en el bosque. Es un tipo solitario. Está dispuesto a vivir ahí todo el tiempo.

Michael

¿Where would we get the money to pay this person?

¿De donde vamos a sacar el dinero para pagar a esta persona?





Nauta

I think we could ask Trimalchion for it.

Creo que podríamos pedírselo a Trimalquión.

Michael

The third Roman? Why would he give it to us? Do you think he cares about Minced Forest?
¿El tercer romano? ¿Por qué nos los iba a dar? ¿Tú crees que le importa el Bosque Triturado?






Sancho

What he cares about is being more splendid than anyone else. We´ll tell him that if he can´t do it, Camacho will.
Lo que le importa es quedar como mas espléndido que nadie. Le diremos que si el no puede hacerlo, lo hará Camacho.





Nauta
He needn´t fork out a lot. In truth, I think my man would do it for free, but I want to be able to offer him something even if he decides not to accept it.

No hará falta que se estire mucho. En realidad, creo que mi recomendado lo haría gratis, pero quiero poder ofrecerle algo aunque luego él no acepte.

Glorvina
We have to pay him. If not, the syndicate of forestkeepers will jump at our throats. They´re on the warpath lately. They have grown very irritable and they jump at the least provocation since Mungo Binky forces them to stay cooped up in offices doing all sorts of paperwork. Who becomes a forest ranger to do paperwork? Puck himself told me this. By the way, he himself is on strike.
Tenemos que pagarle. Si no, se nos van a echar encima los del sindicato de guardabosques que andan en pie de guerra. Se han vuelto muy irritables y se molestan por cualquier cosa desde que Mungo Binky les obliga a permanecer encerrados en oficinas haciendo toda clase de papeleos. ¿Quién se mete a guarda forestal para hacer papeleos? Me lo ha contado el mismo Puck. Por cierto, él mismo está de huelga.



Puck
Yes! I am! What´s the matter?
¡Sí! ¡Lo estoy! ¡Qué pasa?






Michael
Because of Mungo Binky?
¿Por culpa de Mungo Binky?






Puck
No. Because of Oberon. You can´t imagine the things I´ve done for him. If there ever was a model employee, that was me. The times I´ve circled the globe in a twinkling just to run an errand that was nothing but one of his whimsies. And now it happens that I´m not good enough to be his chauffeur.

No. De Oberon. No os imagináis las papeletas que le he resuelto a ése. Si alguna vez ha habido un empleado modélico, ése he sido yo. La de veces que he dado la vuelta al globo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos para hacer algún recado que no era más que puro capricho de Oberón. Y ahora resulta que no soy lo bastante bueno para ser su chofer.
¿Do you know what he´s had the cheek to ask me to do now? Oberon wants me to fool Darcy into leaving Titania and coming to work for him. He wants me to replace myself with that puppy.

¿Sabéis lo que ha tenido la jeta de pedirme ahora? Oberón quiere que camele a Darcy para que deje a Titania y trabaje para él. Quiere que yo me reemplace a mí mismo con ese niñato.


Mungo Binky

You can´t go on strike just because you want to. And you can´t do it without agreeing to certain conditions. Minimum services are a must. You have to fill in this form asking for permission-
No puedes ir a la huelga sólo porque te de la gana. Y desde luego que no puedes hacerlo sin pactar ciertas condiciones. Los servicios mínimos son obligatorios. Tienes que rellenar este formulario solicitando permiso para-




Puck

Look what I´m going to do with your form. 

Mira lo que voy a hacer con tu formulario.







Alpin

Bring it on! 

¡Pelea!






Puck

You´re lucky there´s a minor present, Binky. 

Tienes suerte de que haya un menor presente, Binky.





Glorvina

Nauta, what is the name of the future lord of the forest?

Nauta, ¿como se llama el futuro señor del bosque?









The Lord of the Forest

Artemius.

Artemio.



















Mungo Binky

Excuse me. Do you have a work permit?

Perdona. ¿Tienes permiso de trabajo?








Michael

Cut the post!

¡Corten la entrada!

Nauta´s Mini Mythology - The Winds, Flora, the Dryads, Mars / Mini Mitología de Nauta - Los Vientos, Flora, las Driades, Marte

Nauta

March is a windy month so I´m going to tell you about the winds. And given the big fuss about Minced Woods, I´m going to tell you about the dryads, the ladies of the trees.

Marzo es un mes ventoso así que os hablaré de los vientos. Y dado el cirio que se montó en el Bosque Triturado, os hablaré de las driades, las damas de los árboles.










The Winds / Los Vientos


Aeolus is the king of the winds. He lives in an island where he keeps all the winds in vast caves and lets them out when he pleases. Sometimes he sends a favorable wind to help people he likes, but he can also send wild winds that cause shipwrecks and other disasters.

Eolo es el rey de los vientos. Vive en una isla donde guarda a los vientos en enormes cavernas y les suelta cuando le place hacerlo. A veces envía un viento favorable para ayudar a gente que le cae bien, pero también puede mandar vientos salvajes que causan naufragios y otros desastres.






The most famous winds are those of the four corners of the world. Boreas, the North Wind, has serpent tails for feet. He brings the snow and the cold. The South Wind, Notus, is the wind of fogs and mists. He is venerated by thieves, because he helps them do their business. Eurus is the East Wind and he brings warmth and rain from the East. The West Wind is called Zephyr, and he is the protector of plants and flowers. One of his girlfriends is the goddess Chloris, better known by her Latin name, Flora. She is the goddess of plants and flowers.

Los vientos mas famosos son los de las cuatro esquinas del mundo. Boreas, el viento del norte, pies con forma de colas de serpiente. Trae la nieve y el frio. El viento del sur, Noto, es el viento de las nieblas y brumas. Es venerado por los ladrones porque les ayuda en sus negocios. Euro -sí, como la moneda - es el viento del este y trae calor y lluvia del este. El viento del oeste se llama Cefiro, y es el protector de las plantas y las flores. Una de sus novias es la diosa Chloris, mas conocida por su nombre latino, Flora. Es la diosa de las plantas y flores.



The Dryads / Las Driades

These nymphs are the ladies of the trees. Each dryad has her own tree. She is born when that tree is born, and she dies when it dies. A person who kills a tree kills one of these ladies. That is why in Ancient Greece it was considered sacrilege to cut down a tree unjustly and there are stories about the terrible punishments inflicted on people who did this. There are families of dryads, just as there are families of trees. The Epimelides are the dryades of fruit trees, the Daphnaiae are the ladies of the laurel trees, the Hamadryads are the nymphs of oak and poplar trees, etc.,.

Estas ninfas son las damas de los árboles. Cada driade tiene su propio árbol. Nace cuando nace el árbol y muere cuando muere el árbol. La persona que mata un árbol mata a una de estas señoras. Por eso en la antigua Grecia se consideraba sacrilegio cortar un árbol injustamente y hay historias sobre los terribles castigos inflingidos a la gente que hacía esto. Hay familias de driades, al igual que hay familias de árboles. Las epimelides son las señoras de los árboles frutales, las daphnaiae son las señoras de los laureles, las hamadriades las ninfas de los robles y alamos, etc.








Mars

Hey! This post should be about me! I´m Mars, the God of War. I´m one of the twelve Olympians. And March is my month. It´s named after me!

¡Eh! Esta entrada debería de ser sobre mí. Yo soy Marte, el dios de la guerra. Soy uno de los doce dioses olímpicos. Marzo es mi mes. Lleva mi nombre.









Nauta

Ehhh...Mars, I´m sure you are invited to Trimalchion´s Spring Fling. Venus, the goddess of beauty and love, is going to be there and you are sweet on her, aren´t you? A lot of handsome young men are attending and she might go off with someone else if you aren´t looking your best. It would be a pity because you make such a handsome couple. What are you going to wear?

Eh...Marte, estoy seguro de que estás invitado a la fiesta de primavera de Trimalquión. Venus, la diosa del amor y la belleza, va a estar allí, y a ti te gusta, ¿no es así? Un monton de hombres jovenes y guapos van a asistir y puede que se vaya con otro si no estás despampanante. Sería una lástima porque haceís muy buena pareja. ¿Qué ropa vas a llevar?




Mars

Wear? I have no idea. But I´m always dressed to kill.

¿Llevar? No tengo ni idea. Pero siempre voy vestido para matar.











Nauta

I´m afraid your look is rather out. Why don´t you drop by Nausica´s blog and ask Lukinotakis to create something for you? He can even fix your hair and tidy your moustache. He´s opened a beauty parlour only recently. Here´s the address of the beauty parlour.

Me temo que tu estilo está un poco pasado. ¿Por qué no te dejas caer por el blog de Nausica y pides a Lukinotakis que cree algo para tí?
Incluso puede arreglarte el pelo y adecentar tu bigote. Ha abierto una peluqueria recientemente. Toma nota de la dirección de la peluqueria.
http://nausicanausica.blogspot.com/2008/02/lukinotakis-nos-ensea-los-peinados-de.html




Mars

You´re right! I´m invading Nausica´s blog this very minute. Goodbye.

¡Tienes razón! Voy a invadir el blog de Nausica ahora mismo. Adios.











Nauta

Now that Mars is busy making love and not war we can get on with our mini quiz.

Ahora que Marte está ocupado haciendo el amor y no la guerra podemos pasar a hacer el mini quiz.









Mini Quiz IV

True or false

____1. Aeolus controls both friendly and unfriendly winds.
____2. Winds live in caves in the island of Aeolia.
____3. A shipwreck happens when a ship breaks.
____4. The most famous winds are three.
____5. Notus is the favourite wind of dishonest people.
____6. Flora´s Greek name is Chloris.
____7. People who were cruel and cut down trees like vandals do were punished.
____8. When a tree dies, a dryad dies.
____9. The Daphniaie are the ladies of the fruit trees.
___1o. Mars is an admirer of the goddess Venus.

Prize Question - Pregunta con premio:
Who painted the portrait of Mars? ¿Quién pintó el retrato de Marte?

Solomon and Sheba and Bob Marley and the United Nations /Salomón y Saba y Bob Marley y las Naciones Unidas

This space reserved to write about Bob Marley and his song One Heart. You can hear it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hynjdhRzLq0

Bob was bullied when he was a kid both by black and white people because of his parents. This was his answer:

Este espacio reservado para escribir sobre Bob Marley y Un Corazón.
Bob fue acosado cuando era niño tanto por blancos como por negros por ser hijo de sus padres.
Esta fue su respuesta:

"My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don´t dip on nobody´s side. Me don´t dip on the black man´s side nor the white man´s side. Me dip on God´s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."

"Mi padre era un blanco y mi madre era negra. Ellos me llaman mestizo o lo que sea. Yo no estoy del lado de nadie. Yo no estoy del lado del hombre negro ni del lado del hombre blanco. Yo estoy del lado de Dios, que me creó e hizo que saliese de lo blanco y lo negro."

We are going to learn about Reggae, the Rastafari Movement, the Bete Israel and Solomon and Sheba. Yes, they have things in common.

Vamos a aprender sobre el reggae, el movimiento Rastafari, y Salomón y la reina de Saba. Sí, tienen cosas en común.

It all started with King Solomon, who was the wisest king the Jews ever had. He was very tolerant because like the wise person he was, he knew it was better to cooperate and live happily than to get into fights in which everyone gets hurt and loses a lot, either in exchange of nothing, or in exchange of things that don´t really last. During his reign, since people were fighting less, they had more time to work on being prosperous and cultured.

Almost everybody knows the story about King Solomon and the two ladies who were fighting over a baby. Both said they were its mother. Now, King Solomon couldn´t give each lady half the baby, because babies aren´t something to be split in half. So this time one of the ladies would have to leave with empty hands. King Solomon knew he had to give the baby to the woman who would take the best care of it. So he told the ladies he would split the baby in half so they could share it. One of the ladies immediately begged him not to do this. She said she would give the whole baby up. Whether or not she was the baby´s biological mother, it was clear she was best for the baby.

There is another less dramatic but also charming story about how wise Solomon was. It tells how the Queen of Sheba, a very clever woman herself, came to see if Solomon was all he was cracked up to be.




That´s Sheba riding off to visit Solomon as depicted in an Ethiopian fresco. She brought with her two apparently identical bouquets of flowers. Now, one of them was real, but the other was an apparently flawless copy. Sheba wanted to know if Solomon could discover which was the natural bouquet. Solomon saw he couldn´t tell by himself, so he sent for help. He had some bees examine the bouquets. Bees are experts where flowers are concerned, because their lives depend on the pollen these produce. The bees identified the natural bouquet for Solomon.
The illustration below is by Piero della Francesca. In it, Solomon meets Sheba. Above is the full picture, below is a detail.










The lovely plate below is by the artist Edna Hibel. The baby is Solomon. He is with his father, King David, and his mother, Bathsheba, who was also a very beautiful woman.




There is an anonymous rhyme about Solomon and his father David that goes:

King David and King Solomon
Lived merry, merry lives,
With many, many ladyfriends
And many, many wives.
But when old age crept up on them,
With all its many qualms,
King Solomon wrote the Proverbs
And King David wrote the Psalms.

The Queen of Sheba is the most famous of Solomon´s loves. When Sheba returned to her country, she took with her a son by Solomon. His name was Menelik, and the emperors of Ethiopia are said to be descended from him.


We´re not done. We´ll be back with more when we can. And with the Spanish version.


Alpin

Piero´s painting is sexist!











Glorvina
Believe me, Alpin, King Solomon did his best to make a lot of very different people coexist back then. The Queen of Sheba knew.