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Cañada de las Eras de Molina de Segura're in luck.
The authors of the sundial "The Arc of Iphitus" Lorenzo López Asensio teachers and Marco Antonio Perez have won the second prize in the international sundials "Shadows of Time", "Shadows of Time", held in Italian city of Brescia.
This competition is held every two years and this year 1,900 have attended sundials around the world in the international year of astronomy (2009).
The sundial "Iphitus Arch" is located in the gardens of the entry of IES Cañada de las Eras de Molina de Segura (Murcia).
This is a monumental sundial made in 2007 in Curriculum Innovation Project "Aeolus in Cañada de las Eras."
This project was attended by more than twenty secondary school teachers and in it, taking as a motive the personification of the wind god Aeolus mythological in Homeric poetry, were carried out, inter alia, the following objectives:
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Explain the importance of renewable energy resources and their better use in our region.
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Expose students through various activities and conferences offered the need for better use of existing renewable energy: wind, solar, marine, etc ...
It consisted of professors from the Universities of Murcia, Department of Ecology, Dr. Miguel Angel Esteve, and the Polytechnic of Cartagena, as Prof. Antonio Sánchez Kaiser, and Dr. Antonio Viedma Vice Chancellor, Dr. Mariano Lorca in Agronomy, and former director of the Agricultural Training School in Molina de Segura, D.
Antonio González Lorca, who spoke about wind power, water desalination and water resources in Murcia respectively.
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Artistic activities carried out with the wind at the Institute Cañada de las Eras.
One was a mural made by Prof. Miguel Ángel López Cuevasanta, representing Aeolus stripping of her dress to the Compass Rose.
The relief was made of resin and is exposed, fixed in the inner courtyard of the IES Cañada de las Eras.
A second activity was the sundial Iphitus Arch, by teachers and Antonio Asensio López Lorenzo Marco Perez.
Arch Iphitus Description:
This title is a small monumental work in the gardens of the entrance to the school "Cañada de las Eras" of Molina de Segura.
Performed on a cylindrical platform 5 meters in diameter, using primarily concrete, stainless steel and coated in different colors.
In it we see several allegorical elements of the Odyssey of Homer.
If we look around the whole work, then we will realize that this is a sundial, horizontal type, where most of the elements represented in the same play a role.
Overall the work represents a Greek ship modeled in high relief, with its curved stern and intentionally elongated, which draws an almond shaped eye.
This is completed in its center with two concentric circles of 120 cm.
the first diameter and 60 cm.
the second for the iris and pupil on the eye of Polyphemus.
Along the curved shape of the stern, rest 12 double-edged axes Greek / sheet (Greek Pelekas), cut from sheet steel, to mark the hours of the clock and contain numbers superimposed on the Greek left wing and arabic in the right leaf.
The numbering is represented by Greek letters of their alphabet followed by a "gentle spirit" (') α' = 1, β '= 2, ...
to indicate that it is precisely numerical indications.
These axes, anchored on the surface, are bent and separated according to time lines, and represent the cyclops eye lashes.
As detailed in these 12 axes that contains the clock, we can see that end in a hole in its upper part, and that tells us the work of Homer, aligned with an arrow pierce Ulysses launched with his bow, to demonstrate skills and identity return to Ithaca.
In this clock, and a normal sunny day, will also be crossed by the shadow of the arrow that makes style.
To complete the elements of this clock, we can not forget the central and fundamental part of it, the gnomon, which is given by the arrow mounted and stretched on the bow, as a prominent and emerging.
The entire collection, made of stainless steel, is a vertical plane where one end of the bow rests on the extension of the stern, and the rear of the arrow, with the strings under tension, leaving the center of the circle symbolizing the pupil of the eye.
The arrow is now, with the inclination of the latitude of the place, this clock gnomon casts a shadow as the sun moves in its apparent movement on the hour lines drawn on the ground in the direction of the 12 axes.
But who is Iphitus?
Iphitus According to Greek mythology, son of Éurito, belonging to the cycle of Heracles, was famous for his skill in handling the bow.
Iphitus arc inherited the divine gift of Apollo, when his father died.
Later in the meeting with Odysseus in Mesene in Orsilochus house, Iphitus gave Odysseus the bow.
Mesene Iphitus had come to looking for the oxen, which had been stolen from his father.
There are several mythical traditions about this subject and Iphitus death.
One of them relates that Heracles went to Iphitus for help to find the stolen cattle.
Heracles would have stayed, but in one of his fits of rage killed Iphitus, thus betraying the sense of the hospitable board, because if death is terrible, horrible is to receive those who welcome another, relying on the goodwill of its host.
Odysseus left his palace in Ithaca Iphitus the gift to go to Troy, and is well polished with this bow, a hospital gift that only Odysseus knew tense, with whom he will kill the suitors of his wife Penelope, who in the absence king's men of Ithaca looted their property, eating and drinking at the expense of Odysseus.
Penelope will use this ploy, drawing the bow and arrow crossing through the twelve axes, Pelekas, to settle the outcome in which she met her husband, transformed by Athena into a beggar, and his son Telemachus, who accompanied the hero in the recovery of your home.
Legend Iphitus Arc:
The main reasons are represented in this timepiece 1.
Greek ship, a symbol of the journey of life, 2.
the arch, facing north, as gnomon and a symbol of the need to find every person on our north, 3.
axes, Pelekas, represent the evidence surrounding each moment of human existence, and 4.
Polyphemus's eye in the center, symbolizes negative forces, blinding light, that everyone has to fight within itself with its own intelligence and help from others.
The Arc of Iphitus was inaugurated on 30 November 2007 by the Mayor of Molina de Segura, Eduardo Contreras, accompanied by the Councillor for Education and Environment, María Dolores Martínez Robles, and Consuelo Rosauro, and the Director of the IES Cañada Eras, Pedro Celestino López.
This work had the financial subsidy of the City of Molina de Segura, Caja Mediterráneo (CAM) within the Young Investigator Competition, and the company Lorquí Tecnohormigón and Aggregates.
To all who have participated in the Educational Innovation Project our most sincere congratulations and thanks.
Source: I.E.S. Cañada de la Eras
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