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(TOULOUSE) ZARRA TZA (ZARAGOZA), PAMPLONA, CAL/ >RRA, OIASONA (OIARTZUN) AND LAPURDUM ^AYONNE) WITNESS AN EARLY CONVt*tSlON TO CHRISTIANITY.
WITCHCRAFT AND SPELLS THE REST OF THE COUNTRYSIDE REMAINS FIRMLY GROUNDED IN ITS PAGAN TRADITIONS, WHICH IN SOME FORM SURVIVES EVEN TO THIS DAY. IN 1610-1611 THE BASQUE COUNTRY WAS ACCUSED OF AN EPIDEMIC OF WITCHCRAFT, LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF BASQUES WERE ACCUSED BY THE INQUISITION OF WITCHCRAFT, AND EXTERMINATED.
ANCIENT PAGAN PROCESSIONS AND DANCES
BASQUES DISCUSS GOING TO AMERICA TO BECOME RICH AND FAMOUS THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF BASQUES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HAS ALWAYS BEEN BELIEVED TO BEGIN IN THE YEAR, WHEN THEY COME OUT WEST IN SEARCH FOR GOLD, THOSE WHO FIND NONE, RESORT TO WHAT THEY KNOW BEST SHEEP-HERDING, HOTEL OWNING, AND COOKING. UP TO NOW THE ROLE OF LOUISIANA IN BASQUE HISTORY HAS BEEN OVER-LOOKED, IT IS FROM HERE THAT THE BASQUES AND EVERYONE ELSE RUSHED TO THE SIERRA NEVADA GOLD MINES. TODAY THERE ARE OVER 70,000 BASQUES IN THE STATES OF CALIFORNIA, NEVADA, IDAHO, WYOMING, ARIZONA AND COLORADO.
BASQUE SPORTS, GAMES, AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES:
OXEN AND STONE PULLING, GOAT FIGHTS, WOOD CHOPPING, WEIGHT LIFTERS, PELOTA PLAYERS, JAl ALAI PLAYERS, ROWERS, AND THE BEAUTIFUL BEACHES OF SAN SEBASTIAN,
BAYONNE AND BIARRITZ.
THE BASQUE HOLIDAYS
AN ANGEL ANNOUCES THE BIRTH OF CHRIST ST.FERMIN?S DAY
A SECOND CENTURY BISHOP, APOSTLE TO THE BASQUES, ST. FERM1N THE FIRST BISHOP OF PAMPLONA, A DISCIPLE OF SAINT SATURNINUS, WHO WAS BISHOP OF TOLOSA (TOULOUSE) WHO WAS IN-TURN A DISCIPLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER, WAS BASQUE COUNTRY?S FIRST BISHOP BUT WAS MARTYRED BY THEM, BY HAVING BULLS RUN HIM OVER WHILE TIED HAND AND FOOT. TODAY HE PROTECTS THEM;
(FROM BEING TRAMPLED BY BULLS)
?BRAVE MEN OF NAVARRE, HERE WHERE THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS BEGAN, A GAME OF VALOUR, THE MOST BOLD OF ALL GAMES IN THE WORLD, HERE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF SPAIN THE POWER AND BLOOD OF EUZKADI ( BASQUE COUNTRY) IS SHOWN."
THE BASQUE BULL FIGHTERS FALCES, MARTINTXO, GARRIDO, AS DEPICTED BY THE BASQUE
ARTIST GOYA;
THERE IS NO KILLING OF THE BULL IN BASQUE BULL FIGHTING, THE GOAL IS TO TOUCH
HIS HORNS.
VIA DOLOROSA: THE WAY OF THE PASSION OF CHRIST/GOOD FRIDAY: ZER EGUN ETA URTE
ETAN?
QUE DIA ES Y QUE ANO? WHAT DAY IS IT AND WHAT YEAR?
BASQUE PRAYER PRAYER TO JESUS PRAYER TO VIRGIN MARY (HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE)
FUNERAL DIRGE (CHANT FOR THE DEAD)
PRE-HISTORY ANCIENT TOMBSTONES ?THE MYSTERY OF DEATH, HAS BEEN RECORDED IN THE COSMIC GEOMETRY OF THESE STONES, WHICH WERE CONVERTED INTO SACRED OBJECTS, BY THE ANCIENT BASQUES WHO ENGRAVED THESE SACRED OBJECTS, LIKE HIEROGLYPHS OF A PEOPLE WITH-OUT SCRIPT (ALPHABET), PROCLAIMING MAN?S FINAL DREAM, THE AFTER-LIFE.
DOLMENS
FOUND ALL OVER EUROPE, THE DOLMENS IN BASQUE COUNTRY HAVE PROVED THE MOST ANCIENT OF THEM ALL. WHEN THESE MONUMENTS MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE IN EVERY PART OF EUROPE, THE BASQUE NATION-HOOD IS ALREADY ESTABLISHED BY THIS TIME,
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