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Monday, December 19, 2016

ECA (Global Understanding): 神秘について、不思議なストーリーズ

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How are you? Today I'd like to post a few of your own stories about some mysteries (神秘). 

These are imagined stories about mysteries around the world - strange, but all in good fun. Here's one of them about the picture above - the Bermuda Triangle

Under the Bermuda triangle, there is Ryugu Castle. Across the area, people hear mystery singing voice. And then, people go to Bermuda Triangle, to make sure who sing the song. When they go there, people surprised. Because there is mermaid. She is so beautiful!! She is smiling. She asked to them, "Do you wanna come to Ryugu Castle?" Of course, people follow her. And then, there are still no people who come back. Well, is there heaven or hell? Nobody knows the answer.

Very interesting! A mermaid and a castle are responsible for all those ships and planes that go missing! Here's another one, about Easter Island: 


The official name is Rapa Nui Island. There is on island made of submarine volcanoes. Green when there is the rich land at the same time is a solitary island in the distant sea where several strange images are built. Their image is called Moai. All of the images are facing the sea. They have a far look like appeal to something far away in anticipation.

In this island there is a tradition from the ancient times. 1,200 years ago, an immigrant group was in this island. They created the altar and the Moai in order to worship the great ancestors. In the eyes of this image it was believed that spiritual power dwells. However, influential people increased the population when each of the village clans had split. They began making the altars and the Moai in every village. Tribes began fighting each other. Images that would enshrine the ancestors also crushed the people in the battle of the villages. Therefore, a legend is that the images have sadness every night from the wailing spirits of poor. It’s happening such phenomenon even now.

Wow! That's incredible. Wailing spirits…now here's another one, about Stonehenge - or more exactly, the "Miracle of Stonehenge"


We think around 3,000 years ago, in that place they had a wedding. Two big tribes made a wedding for their next generation. So they want it as luxury as much as they can do. They brought some big ice in the Northern country, but they couldn't move it because it was too heavy.

At the same time, some fairies came there and saw that. So they decided to help them. But the rules of heaven is do not let the human know that fairy is real, so they had an idea that they will change into aliens. They helped them brought ices from the Northern country to move to England.

Why we choice the title is because they brought an ice of the north but why now it is a hard rock. We thought in the Northern have somewhere human did not discover before so maybe from north they have a hard rock that have been covered by ice.

They brought it when an ice still in a hard rock and temperature at that time was cold. But now global warming made ice melt, so now what we can see just hard rocks.

Incredible! Fairies and ice! 

These were interesting stories about your own ideas on these mysteries.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in January!

Images: Top - By Bermudan_kolmio.jpg: Alphaiosderivative work: -Majestic- (talk) - Bermudan_kolmio.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6916509/Easter Island - By Aurbina - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133096/Stonehenge - http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/stonehenge/All images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

ECA (Global Understanding): 不思議・神秘

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How are you? Today let's look at mysteries (不思議 、神秘) in the world! 

Look at the picture above. It's the Grave Creek Mound in West Virginia, in the U.S. It is one of many mounds (small hills) that were made by native American cultures that once lived across the east-central part of what is now the U.S.

They had a rich, advanced culture with cities and even systems of laws - and then over time, up to around when the Edo period began in Japan, their cities disappeared and the cultures died out.

How were the people who built these mounds able to make them? What was the reason for these mounds? Were they for religious ceremonies, or…could they have been made to connect themselves to aliens? Why did their cultures die out?

Activity
Take a look at these other pictures of mysteries around the world. What do you think are the reasons for these mysteries? Who - or what - could have made them happen? Talk about these with a partner or a group!


Nazca lines (Peru)


The Bermuda Triangle (Atlantic Ocean)



Easter Island (Pacific Ocean)



Stonehenge (England)


What do you think about these famous places and mysteries? 

Homework
Choose one of the places above and find out a bit more about it on the Internet. Make notes on it and next week, bring it to class and share what you found out. 

Take care! See you next time!


Images: Top - By Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) - Own work (self-made photograph), CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1725430/Nazca lines - http://www.enkivillage.com/unsolved-mysteries-of-the-world.html/Bermuda Triangle - By Bermudan_kolmio.jpg: Alphaiosderivative work: -Majestic- (talk) - Bermudan_kolmio.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6916509/Easter Island - By Aurbina - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=133096/Stonehenge - http://www.history.com/topics/british-history/stonehenge/All images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. All rights reserved.