Yareah Magazine

Our gardens are full of marvelous trees which have been venerated during centuries. In Yareah magazine/January, we started to know and see their poetic secrets by analyzing Robert Graves’ famous essay “The White Goddess

- A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth” and what he calls “The alphabet of trees” in Celtic Druidic culture (letters were known by the name of a tree which started with its same initial. For example, “duir” -our oak- was also the letter “D” and “saille” –our willow- was the letter “S”). We explained that this alphabet had five vowels and thirteen consonants and the reasons why these last ones formed a magic seasonal calendar based on trees and “Mother Nature” which was secretly used by Druids for centuries, even after Christian irruption... they had to hidden their magic words and spells of their enemies to prevent their possible attacks, a belief shared by old Greek and Roman religions.

Rafael Castillejo

Durante décadas, esta bonita escultura se podía contemplar a la izquierda del busto del Doctor Cerrada en el Parque Primo de Rivera de Zaragoza. Hoy, debido al vandalismo y la dejadez de algunos, su sitio es ocupado por una réplica en bronce.
De niño, el Centauro Quirón era junto al Dios Neptuno y Alfonso I el Batallador con su león de bronce, mis monumentos preferidos. Mi abuelo me contaba qué significaba cada uno de estos personajes a la vez que me enseñaba a respetar el Parque y todo su entorno.