Classes On Portugal / Lisang na Portugal

From  https://www.jasoncolavito.com/sanchuniathon.html Even a marxian historian as Gwyn Williams considered that «Historians should examine myths». As such I got to examin a given myth: the full version in Greek of the Phoenician History  by a mythified (Homer-style) author called Sanchoniaton or in Portuguese Sanconíaton / Sanconíato  found allegedly found in Portugal and published in Germany in Greek and translated into Latine. Being "agnostic" about the veracity of that Sanchoniaton manuscript in Portugal, let me summarise (mainly out of the books themselves, facsimile of the Greek original and translations into German and Latin , from 1836 and '37, and out of the articles in French and English  on the original editions) what we know of the issue: 1. In 1836 i is presented in Hannover to the orientalist F. G. Grotefend the transcription of a Greek manuscript by a certain Friedrich (Fr.) Wagenfeld, who said that the original transcribed arrived to him from P...

The Mouras or Moiras Encantadas  ("Enchanted Mooressses", already mentioned here ) are entities in Portuguese folclore similar to the pagan/post-pagan fairies and pagan deities and such in Galician-Portuguese, Asturian, Castilian-Leonese and Spanish Extremadura folklore. A male equivalent, the Mouros / Moiros , also exist. The Moiras / Moiros monickers are taken equally from the proto-Celtic marwo meaning "dead" or "dark", from the Portuguese-Spanish (and later Brazilian-Uruguayan-Argentinian) idea created to try to fuse these Maruos and the North African/Muslim Mouros /Moors rationally by explaining that the Moors were enchanted into a Moorish land now transfered into the spirit world (as fairies are from the supernatural country of "fairyland",  Mouras / Moiras /Mooresses are from the supernatural country of " mourama "/" moirama ", "moorland"), to remain as hauntings and guardians of treasures after the Christi...