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Polytheism is the belief or worship in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. Polytheist.
The moura encantada is a supernatural being from the fairy tales of Portuguese and Galician folklore. She often appears singing and combing her beautiful long hair, golden as gold or black as the night with a golden comb, and promises to give treasures to whom sets her free by breaking her spell. (In Galicia, though, they are more commonly redheads.) According to José Leite de Vasconcelos, mouras encantadas are “beings compelled by an occult power to live on a certain state of siege as if they were numb or asleep, insofar as a particular circumstance does not break their spell”. According to ancient lore, they are the souls of young maidens who were left guarding the treasures that the mouros encantados (enchanted mouros) hid before heading to the Mourama. The legends describe the mouras encantadas as young maidens of great beauty or as charming princesses who are "dangerously seductive". The mouras encantadas are shapeshifters and there are a number of legends, and versions of the same legend, as a result of centuries of oral tradition. They appear as guardians of the pathways into the earth and of the "limit" frontiers where it was believed that the supernatural could manifest itself. Mouras encantadas are magical maidens who guard castles, caves, bridges, wells, rivers, and treasures. José Leite de Vasconcelos considered as a possibility that the mouras encantadas may have had assimilated the characteristics of local deities, such as nymphs and spirits of nature. Consiglieri Pedroso also referred to the mouras encantadas as "feminine water genies". The tales of the mouras are part of a wider lore of the "mouros encantados", who some times appear as giants or warriors, which also include the mourinhos or maruxinhos, a very small elf like people who live under the ground.
The men of Portugal and Galicia were sure lucky to have them around in those times
The good ol times
Do you still remember those times?
Yes i do , vividly
How about you ?
Well I do remember how I used to cause havoc in a form of Iku-Turso Static-sls.smf.aws.sanomacloud.net
Only a Finnish person would get that
Nice one
No, Mouros are just North African muslims. Mouras Encantadas were water undead, that posed temptation onto christian knights, first by crying in despair, and then by attempting to seduce and drown them.
They were said to resent christians, because christians killed their husbands in war, even though the moors were the invaders themselves.
Hmm , you are from there afterall and can know best but then how do you explain this description of them here ?
Nymphs were everywhere , we can even find dryads in the Witcher in the parts of Poland from these times ; but at some point in time they vanished away , i think is because evil that was rising in the world
Am i right when i say that Iberic peoples , Spanish , Portuguese and others from there hate it when the arab conquests are mentioned ?
I noticed some time ago that someone reacted with indignity when someone else perhaps an arab themself mentioned that he likes the times of muslim Spain like that of the Emirates of Cordoba and Granada
We do not hate mentioning arab conquest, we just hate it when it is said that it was beneficial to Europe, which it wasnt.
The Visigoths were already looking back to roman philosophy and law, and without the Moor invasions, Europe might have undergone the Renaissance centuries sooner.
In any case, descriptions from things are usually fictious on the Internet. Mouras Encantadas are evil undead in our folklore, not nymphs or elves.
In fact, the Moors (or Mouros) would kill whole villages if someone there mentioned anything magical from Europe, since they wanted to repress all manner of European religiosity and tradition, and replace it with just Islam, like they did in North Africa.
OMG that was so bad , i am happy you got rid of them
I got no idea how that was achieved but am sure glad it happened
They probably added some good things sure but the bad things far outweighed the good ones
But wait a minute , only Spain was conquered by them and not Portugal too right ?
She does look creepy in this image too like behind some kind of horror fog , as if something is amiss with her presence and i don't feel that benevolent sentiment of a presence of Good indeed
Tricky spirits of the dead it seems but i bet you had good , protective spirits too
Portugal did not exist when the Moors invaded, it was all Spain, we became our own nation later on.
Oh no and where you lived ? Lusitania was always there right ?
You were always greater than the Spanish for me , and more sophisticated , as well you conquered the New World in a more elegant way too
I mean this not just saying to be nice
Thanks, but was all called Hispania before, and Lusitania was just a part of it. Was that way under the Carthaginians, Romans and Visigoths.
The split happened on the Reconquista.
Aha i understand but you were always different peoples , even if related to some level you are not the same and even racially they are more hotheaded and more tanned while you people are more fair skin and more cold