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Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII

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Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII es una novela histórica de Francisco Navarro Villoslada.
El escenario donde se desarrolla es Navarra, y la época (el siglo VIII), la de la invasión musulmana de España. Amaya, la protagonista, es una princesa legendaria, hija del visigodo Ranimiro y de su esposa, descendiente directa de Aitor. Amaya da forma y ambientación al mito de Aitor, patriarca de los vascos, de quien es el equivalente femenino.
Personajes secundarios son Pacomio, un conspirador judío que maquina entre musulmanes, visigodos y vascos. Eudes, hijo de Pacomio, ocultando su origen judío, ha llegado a un alto puesto en el reino visigodo (duque de Cantabria) y aspira a poder más allá de lo que sus aliados y su padre se lo permitían.
Al final, el secreto de Aitor se revela: recomendar la conversión al cristianismo a los vascos paganos. Amaya se casa con el líder de la resistencia vasca, García.

735 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1879

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September 17, 2020
CRITICISM OF AMAYA OR THE BASQUES IN THE 8TH CENTURY. By Francisco Navarro Villoslada Dedicated with affection to The Deputy Rocío Meer who recommended her reading and to Marta Luján who encouraged me to continue it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have already been able to return to my work, although I do not know for how long, as it seems that the Coronavirus does not refer and it is possible that people may be re-confined to their homes again.
First of all, it is first of all to reiterate my sincere apologies to my followers and the people who read my reviews even if they are long and heavy. My primal idea as I told you was to write a review of Philip Athans' novels"Baldur Gates I" and "Baldur Gatesd II: The Shadows of Amn" https://www.goodreads.com/series/4190... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
. The reasons for this were several of them the release of the third part of the video game Baldur Gates III carried out by the Larian Company to whom I wish them all the best, since the Baldur Gates saga has been my favorite video game saga and I wanted to pay tribute to them. I also wanted to be critical of dungeons and dragons' conduct, whose latest decisions favoring gender ideology, and I also don't agree with its alignment with the Black Live Matters movement. Among the new things they propose is to eliminate the term race, and there is also no evil race. Let us be honest with me the term race has never liked me I have always preferred the term people, culture, civilization. The term race seems too Saxon to me, and it has no roots in the Mediterranean countries, but since it has been a teaching of Dungeons and Dragons I find it a mistake now to delete it. . On the subject of evil, I agree that being born into an evil society does not make an individual evil, but this can influence us. I would tell you that the atmosphere influences almost as much as inheritance and let us be sincere a demon will always be evil, also a whip, or a Rhakhasa. Drow we have the cases of Drizzt Dorden, Soulafein, Zaknafein, Viconia de Vir and Ellistrae's followers, but they are usually evil, just like vampires so culture does predispose and the environment too. You're more likely to be evil if society and the environment around you is also evil, so I'd advise abandoning Dungeons and Dragons its current line of action, however, despite this blunt attack I've just launched that no one expects a very harsh review against Dungeons and Dragons in fact I'm very grateful to Dungeons and Dragons for everything he's done for me, and for the hours of entertainment and pleasure he's given me. I believe, that Duneons and Dragons when I was a role-playing player has helped me a lot to improve as a person. I mean by this, that in my campaign that was launched against Dungeons and Dragons saying that I promoted Satanism, there is no reason to be and I agree with my friend Werner A. Lind https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... where he's innocent of those charges. Dungeons and Dragons has actually shaped my morale a lot, and it has helped me to be a better Christian (that I am not good at all, but without Dungeons and Dragons it would be much worse). In fact Siege of Dragon Spear that unites Baldur Gates and Baldur Gates II Shadows of Amn seemed like a good game, although of course I do not agree with the promotion that makes the game of gender ideology and I did not like the defense that Grubb and the writers made attacking the old characters of the game among them Jaheira, which is one of my favorite characters. It seemed abominable that to defend Mizhena Jaheira would be attacked whose sin in the eyes of the writers was to be married to Khalid. Other than that I find it a infamy and contempt for those who worked at Baldur Gates I that seems a bad policy, because it is the children of the families who buy those games, if you attack the traditional family you are putting yourself at risk and limiting the market. If people don't get married, and they don't have kids who's going to buy your games? Unless unacceptable measures are passed that already authors like Anthony Burgess in "The wanting seed" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... and Aldous Huxley in "A Brave New World" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... have proposed in which procreation is forbidden, in fact Anthony Burgess' novel homosexuality is encouraged and heterosexual marriage is forbidden so procreation is done artificially through the specimen, or insemination in vitro. I ask the creators of Siege of Dragonspear Do you want that kind of society? I would have understood that they would have defended gay people and said that they have been persecuted and that they wanted recognition with them, but I doubt they would succeed in attacking the traditional family, and heterosexual marriage. So I am a cheerful single, although I could sing this war cry Jaheira we are all, and as surely the most educated users will know if they know the arthric myth of Erec and Enide https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... adventures don't end when a person gets married is when it becomes more interesting. One person doesn't care about sex, he'll risk absolutely everything to save his family. That is why I found these statements by the creadfores of Siege of Dragonspear extremely unfortunate, but I consider it a thing. I don't think these unfortunate facts should tarnish the merit of Dungeons and Dragons. There are many Christians who have decided to boycott Dungeons and Dragons games and decide to look for role-playing games closer to their beliefs. I would not be the easiest thing to do, leave and abandon I believe, that now more than ever Christians must be present in these areas so I will remain faithful to Dungeons and Dragons and I will re-vindicate, so that the Christian traits, which have them will continue in their products. This convulsive age will cause great chaos and destruction, but when it is over we will have to start rebuilding it and we have to be the ones who are there. If you liked this I ask you for patience, this review will be written and this is a small forward. In fact, I've already revisited the Baldurs, but for my analysis to be complete, I have to wait for you to finish watching the videos of Neverwinter Nights and its Shadows of Udentride expansions in which writer Naomi Novik https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... collaborated, known for her Cycles of Temeraire (those dragons fighting in the Napoleonic Wars) https://www.goodreads.com/series/4327... and novels such as Uprooted https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... and Hordes of the Underdark to make the entire Bioware saga complete. I apologize for not quoting the Icewind Dale saga, but this would make the review even more mastonical than it's going to be, although these games will be quoted, but very briefly, and I'll also give Larian a lot of advice. He finished the section of Baldurs Gates thanking Turbiales and Khanach for having allowed me to meet Baldurs Gates again without having to play them again, because since 2007 for personal reasons I have withdrawn from video games. If you like role-playing games and video games and understand Spanish I recommend watching Turbiales videos https://www.youtube.com/results?searc...+ I briefly wish to comment before writing my review of Amaya and the Basques of the 8th century, that in addition to baldurs Gates' reviews I have a word another review "The Roles of Benjamin Benavides" by the Jesuit Leonardo Castellani to https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... wonderful novel, which I also recommend, and if you like Michael D. O'Brien and his parusistic novels https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... https://www.goodreads.com/series/6765... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... , I can only tell you, that the novels of the Argentine writer are deeper, and better. However, he spent his whole life researching the Apocalypse, and I have had the honor of reading the two books and the Jesuit's is deeper and better. This is another one of the projects I'm embarking on. In addition to these reviews, I will also try to write some reviews of the books I have read during my confinement due to CoVid 19. People will be disappointed by how little I've read this year, and I've read a lot less this year, and I've also been dedicated to watching a lot of videos so I haven't read as much as I'd like. I hope that when I finish watching the neverwinter videos I will be able to expand my reading list. Without further ado and I apologize to the users of Goodreads I am ready to talk about Amaya, which is considered in the opinion of many as the best Spanish historical novel of the nineteenth century. The first thing I have to say is that this novel was bought from me by my father many years ago. I don't know if because of a speech, which I gave at La Salle school, or that's when I was studying the career. I had this book for many years in my library, and I began to read it, but the extension of the novel, and the way of narrating the facts by Francisco Navarro Villoslada overwhelmed me, and made for many years this book remain in the limbo of the righteous. However, it was logical that in the end I ended up reading this book, we only had to wait for the right time and it came this year. First of all, I must thank Ms. Rocío Meer for recommending to me what many say is the best Spanish historical novel of the nineteenth century, surpassing "The master of Bembire" by Enrique Gil Carrasco https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8... and the national episodes of Benito Pérez Galdos https://www.goodreads.com/series/1822... However, unless you are very curious people, and you are very interested in this subject you will not hear much about Francisco Navarro Villoslada, and this is because Villoslada despite being initially a writer of conservative liberalism ended up subscribing to the thesis of Carlism and that has not been forgiven by the left, that everything Catholic feels apprehension, and hatred for it, not a certain right, that he is proud to be liberal, and with the Transition this type of writers has been forgotten, and have been replaced by anti-Franco writers. I also have a great debt to the novelist Marta Luján who encouraged me to continue reading, when I was going to faint in my efforts, and not only encouraged me to read this novel, but recommended "The Minion" by Sergei Kourdakov https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... (of course I recommend all marta Luján https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... wonderful novels), and I don't know if I'll be becoming an "incurable romantic" as Lord Feverstone said, but I increasingly like the romantic genre. So Francisco Navarro Villoslada has been practiced the principle of the Greek Ostraka. I mean, he's been relegated to oblivion. We live in a society where we read a little, and the elites don't like history either, and if they have interest it is in the nineteenth century, and 20th especially to talk about the second republic and the uncivil war, and to denote Franco's regime. On that you will find abundant literature, but the rest of the eras if you write about them will always be done from a presentist perspective, and lay people demonizing Christianity and turning it into a period of backwardness and darkness. That is why it will not interest people to read books as excellent, whole, moral and Christian as this by Navarro Villoslada. Besides, the author was a carlist, God has us confessed. If you go to Wikipedia, you'll be told that this is a Manichean novel, and I don't agree with that. It is true that the Navarrese writer's novel suffers and has flaws, but I do not believe, that Manicheanism is one of his flaws. It is true that this book drinks a lot from sir Walter Scott's school https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... and it is a feature of 19th-century novels, which abuse melodrama, and the folletín, and which go too late. I sometimes felt very powerless with "Amaya" because the characters talked and talked, and the action slowed down, and I wanted something to happen. Sometimes the novel was too costumbrista, and abused descriptions. Navarro Villoslada intended to honor the Basques of the 8th century in confrontation with the Visigothic monarchy. This recourse to confronting two civilizations of lords and dominated is not new, he had already made use of him Scott, and Soulie had written about 5th-century France in his novel Staniel https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Frédéric-... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... where the French author friend of Alejandro Dumas https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... (this has been the great misfortune of Spain not having a Dumas, that novelized our history). In this novel Soulie analyzed the decline of the Roman empire, and its fall, the revolt of the Bagaudas, and the emergence of the Visigoths of the Balthos dynasty in France. So the theme is common here from a different perspective Navarro Villoslada tells us the end of the Visigos with their last king Don Rodrigo and their conflict with the Basques, and will also show us the beginning of the reconquest. The novel is greatly influenced by Carlism and will defend the identity of the Basques, unlike the Liberal-driven French Jacobin centralist model. However, this novel is demarcated from the thesis of Basque nationalism supported by the PNV and the terrorist party Bildu on one thing. The Basque Country has an identity, but within Spain. So we will talk about the Basques, but they will side with the hated Visigoths, when the Arabs invade them (if they hear it, and do not let the thesis of Blas Infante and Goytisolo https://www.goodreads.com/author/show... deceive us. The Muslims invaded the Iberian Peninsula, and what Navarro Villoslada tells us is the third attempted invasion. Already Wamba rejected an offensive, Teodomiro, a character that will be quoted very often in this novel and created the Levantine focus of Tudmir another and Tarik's attempt is the third).
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Buenísimo: de los mejores. Nobleza y categoría de las personas. Carácter navarro y vasco. Defensa de la verdad por encima de los sentimientos. España unida x la Cruz.
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October 20, 2023
Buena novela de ambientación histórica. Personajes bien definidos y con un arco argumental fuerte y denso.
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