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Sand
El Libro de Arena
1Kings4:29
"And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore. "

29"И дал Бог Соломону мудрость(wisdom) и весьма великий разум, и обширный ум, как песок на берегу моря."

Ouroboros: Life, rebirth, and stuff

Chess: "sand" "las tablas" "materialismo dialéctico"

Materialismo dialéctico? No. [Claro que la "arena" es un material, y si de construcción hablamos, pues "Las Tablas" también son un material de construcción indispensable. y tal vez por ese dialéctica de materiales se produjo la debacle del Herediano con el "equipo cementero", el Cruz Azul, pero y la debacle de Liberia Mía con el Real España?] Pero sí es un ejemplo como un pequeño detalle-rellenar cuatro canales insignificantes- puede tener grandes consecuencias, en este caso, la pérdida de la arena blanca en Cancún. Uno de sus atractivos turísticos más importantes!!!!!1

Forget drugs... the new hot commodity in Mexico is sand

A tourist climbs over police tape after Mexican federal environmental authorities and navy sailors closed a section of beach built by illegally pumping sand from the ocean bottom to combat erosion at a hotel in Cancun, Mexico, Thursday, July 30, 2009. Five people were detained in the incident. While Cancun suffers severe beach erosion problems caused by recent hurricanes and storms, authorities say such unauthorized private efforts only worsen the problem. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

The Associated Press reported Thursday that the beach at the Gran Caribe Real Hotel in Cancun had been closed by Mexican environmental enforcement officials after allegations that the hotel was illegally accumulating sand.

Having enough sand on Cancun’s beaches has been a problem since Hurricane Wilma struck the area in 2005. The Mexican government spent $19 million to pump sand from the sea floor onto the beaches, but the AP notes that much of that sand has washed away.

The hotel is accused of building a breakwater to retain sand on its beach and keep it from flowing naturally to neighboring beaches.

“Today we made the decision to close this stretch of ill-gotten, illegally accumulated sand," said Patricia Patron, Mexico's attorney general for environmental protection. “This hotel was telling its tourists: ‘Come here, I have sand ... the other hotels don’t, because I stole it.’”

Mexican sailors assisted the environmental officials in sealing off the beach with crime-scene tape.
The move irritated tourists staying at the hotel.

“They promised us a beach,” said Maria Bachino, a travel agent from Uruguay. “This is very unpleasant; we feel bad.”

Patron apologized for the inconvenience to tourists, but said the law must be enforced. Officials said the hotel had ignored requests that it remove the breakwater.

Thus far, hotel officials have been mum on the allegations. The company’s website continues to promote the five-star resort as “better than ever and stretching along a quarter mile of white sandy beach.”

Hotel officials did not return an offer to present their side of the story.

The breakwater at the hotel beach is nothing new. It was touted by the resort in May 2008 as part of the government's efforts to retain sand in Cancun.

In the early 1970s, before development at Cancun, the beach here was nearly 200 feet wide, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Beach erosion accelerated after developers filled in four natural canals that provided an outlet for large waves during storms.

Definición y Etimología del Cuento

El cuento es una narración breve de hechos imaginarios o reales, protagonizada por un grupo reducido de personajes y con un argumento sencillo. No obstante, la frontera entre un cuento largo y una novela corta no es fácil de trazar.

Etimología de la palabra cuento

Cuento: viene de la palabra latina «contus» tomada del griego y en su primitiva significación valió tanto como extremo y fin y así decimos cuento de lanza, cuento del cayado, de la bengala, etc., refiriéndonos al regatón o extremidad inferior de estos objetos.

Cuento también significa pértiga, varal, tiento o remo de barco que se gobierna con cuento o varal o pie derecho que se aproxima a lo que amenaza ruina y de ahí viene el proverbio andar o estar a cuentos que en lo antiguo significó estar en peligro y sustentarse con artificio y que hoy se dice del que cuenta patrañas o enredos para indisponer a unas personas contra otras o sea, intriga de baja ley.

Cuento es además un caso, fábula o especie novelesca, una anécdota o historieta gratuitamente inventada que es el cuento literario.

Ouroboros

The Ouroboros (Greek Οὐροβόρος or οὐρηβόρος, from οὐροβόρος ὄφις "tail-devouring snake", also spelled Uroboros in English pronounced /ʊˈɹɒbɔɹɔs/ or /ˌjʊəɹoʊˈbɒɹəs/), is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle.

The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (See Phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished. The ouroboros has been important in religious and mythological symbolism, but has also been frequently used in alchemical illustrations, where it symbolizes the circular nature of the alchemist's opus. It is also often associated with Gnosticism, and Hermeticism.

Carl Jung interpreted the Ouroboros as having an archetypical significance to the human psyche. The Jungian psychologist Erich Neumann writes of it as a representation of the pre-ego "dawn state", depicting the undifferentiated infancy experience of both mankind and the individual child.