The Sunshine Stone

Dancing on the Sun Stone is a uniquely transdisciplinary work that fuses modern Latin American history and literature to explore women’s lives and gendered politics in Mexico. In this important work, scholar Marjorie Becker focuses on the complex Mexican women of rural Michoacán who performed an illicit revolutionary dance and places it in dialogue with Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz’s signature poem, “Sun Stone”—allowing a new gendered history to emerge. Through this dialogue, the women reveal intimate and intellectual complexities of Mexican women’s gendered voices, their histories, and their intimate and public lives. The work further demonstrates the ways these women, in dialogue with Paz, transformed history itself. Becker’s multigenre work reconstructs Mexican history through the temporal experiences of crucial Michoacán females, experiences that culminate in their complex revolutionary dance, which itself emerges as a transformative revolutionary language.

Discover the fantastic story of the Sun Stone ! It was 40 000 years ago, just after the first Indians settled in North America. To save her tribe, a young Indian, Little Daisy, goes to look for the Sun Stone. Little Daisy has just celebrated its twelfth summer. One morning, on returning to her village, she discovers that all inhabitants are petrified. Only the grandmother can still speak. Before she freezes, she tells her that a sorcerer has cast a spell on the Inikawas to change them into stone statues. There is only one way to break the spell: bring back the Sun Stone, a crystal found on top of the West Moutains. For this she must cross the great prairie But the wild beasts are not the only dangers of the prairie. However, Little Daisy has an incomparable asset: a tough tenacity. She will cross many obstacles in order to deliver her own, aided by her courage and knowledge of nature and the hunt from her people.

The event horizon of a Black Hole has been discovered reading the ≥ 500 years old Aztec ‘Sun Stone’ almanac glyphs and it has been called Tezcatlipoca in honours to the Mesoamerican God, the ‘Smoking Mirror’. The astronomical phenomenon is guessed to cause the mass extinction between Triassic and Jurassic, the one involving the rising of the Archosauria, from aquatic carnivorous PlacoDontoidae super-family into terrestrial herbivorous Zanclodon laevis (Ladinian – Carnian age). Furthermore, a serendipity conjecture about the European colonization of the American continent before 1492 and the biological identifications of theological Demulge family [Noah, Naamah and their three children (Shem, Ham and Josphet)] emerged via syncretism.

Two familys passage from Norway to North America, during the Viking age is the framework of this story. More importantly, how the Vikings may have navigated, what foods they may have eaten, how they may have prayed, and traded form the heart of the story. It based on what might be true, or at least imagined possible. Stories told by the authors fatherand his fatherare the basis of this narrative journey.

Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination to those who venture into their sphere. In Britain today, more people visit these structures than any other form of prehistoric monument and visitors stand in awe at their scale and question how and why they were erected. Building the Great Stone Circles of the North looks at the enigmatic stone structures of Scotland and investigates the background of their construction and their cultural significance.

Presents twenty Mexican stories from the early twentieth century, including tales of fantasy, life in Mexico, history, the city, and private life by such authors as Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, and Juan Rulfo.