Festival of oblivion: Xinzo de Limia and the river that erases memory

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MIMOHE There is a place in Ourense where every year it is remembered how doubts, beliefs and superstition made a river easily fordable on foot become an almost insurmountable barrier. An almost insurmountable barrier for none other than the impressive Roman army. This occurred when his legionnaires thought that the Limia River, next to the Galician town of Xinzo de Limia , was actually the mythological Lethe River . There is no barrier higher than fear itself, and that was what stopped all those Romans on the bank of a stream that, I insist, any of them could cross on foot without getting wet beyond the waist. Well, he didn't stop all those Romans, the truth is that he stopped all of them except one. Because one was the first to cross and undo the fear of all the others.

Whoever drinks or bathes in the river Lethe loses his memory Xinzo de Limia Oblivion Festival Oblivion festival in Xinzo de Limia. By Álvaro Pérez Vilariño The river Lethe, or Lethe, was part of Greek mythology and Colombia Mobile Number List was one of the rivers of Hades, of the underworld, that is, of the world of the dead. Lethe had the peculiarity of making those who drank or entered its waters forget everything . As if those waters, in addition to cleansing the skin, also cleansed the memory. The men and women who came into contact with him were left without their knowledge, without their memories, without knowing what their life had been like, their family... Everything dissolved, we could say, in the waters. Now, where was that river Lethe? Nobody knew. Around the year 135 BC, the Roman general and consul Decimus Junius Brutus was in command of the troops that were in Hispania on a campaign of conquest .



The Romans were already well established in Hispania, but there were still some areas that resisted them. When Decimus Junius Brutus's troops were moving through the south of present-day Galicia and the north of Lusitania, that is, Portugal, trying to make those lands their own, they came across what they believed to be the Lethe River. Limia River Pass - Lethes River Pass Limia River Pass. By Álvaro Pérez Vilariño The Roman legionaries stopped on a bank of the Limia River, in what is now Orense. The campaign was a success and few things seemed likely to be an obstacle to Rome's military strength. Of course, a river like the Limia would not stop that army, unless the Limia was not the Limia but the river Lethe. The general had to set an example for the legion to advance.