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Santa Sangre And the Holy Beasts!
by Milota Sidorova

On the days like this, everything goes wild. Sun heat is burning out the city streets, where people go mad. Along the fires boosting this living hell, all the dancing folks point down the cathedral of San Joan, where this fiesta speeds up into the chaotic mass of drinking, dancing and celebration.Tomorrow doesn't exists. As the white stones are flowing through the air, the windows of hundreds of years old building crash down. Massive applause from the bottom has suddenly mingled with angel's choirs.Smell of sweat and wine. Swelling music overloads throngs. Fire stones. Tension. The cathedral is on fire! General madness toughens by every scream of drunken adoration.Spain is on fire! Santa Sangre.Despite of living in highly technological and strictly logical 21st century, there is something genuinely wild inside of human nature. Our civilization has kept this purely beautiful feature locked during the centuries. However, by virtue of science, policy, religion and progress, our dark side has spread its deadly wings all over the world. While we prevent from looking barbarian, the rule of the nature, where the law is still standing on the side of the stronger, is still the most powerful one. We behave like they did!Blood has been clearly chasing our history. And the original, despite brutal traditions have remained. They have even became glorified. Touristic highlights. Fights. Sweat and blood. Let's pass the city gate of medieval city of Spanish Pamplona, where the risk throws itself into the victory or failure. City of red color adores more than 700 hundred years old tradition of bull running and fighting. And the main feast of San Fermin (that however logically takes place in the middle of October) is held in Pamplona just these days. By now plenty of music, dancing, drinking, street theatre create fertile underground for everyday's bull run. Thousands of runners gathers around the corral at Santo Domingo where the bulls are kept. By the time of 8 a.m. Three or four minutes hell starts up. Excited bulls are released into the crowd filling 825m route through the narrow streets of Pamplona. Men even women dressed in traditional white trousers and shirts with red handkerchief stiffed around their necks are escaping, chasing and thrilling nervous animals, running into the bull's ring, where they end their lives in the afternoon fight event.Despite of decades of injured and 14 dead ones, there is no such force that would stop this tradition. No environmental groups nor political leaders can bring Spain to abandon it's heritage.Still it seems human creature needs its own, even a small piece of time and space to prove and release all these dormant beasts, so prohibited from civilized life in civilized culture.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080707/ap_on_re_eu/spain_running_of_the_bulls;_ylt=Ati9E9T428dS140VQeORpr2s0NUE

by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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