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]]> http://www.davidjackson.info/2008/the-true-history-of-the-indalo-indalico-or-mojacar-man.htm/comment-page-1#comment-4049 Theo Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:39:09 +0000 http://www.davidjackson.info/?p=53#comment-4049 I'm Getting him/her tattooed onto my wrist. I grew up in Mojacar. Can't wait. I’m Getting him/her tattooed onto my wrist. I grew up in Mojacar. Can’t wait.

]]> http://www.davidjackson.info/2008/the-true-history-of-the-indalo-indalico-or-mojacar-man.htm/comment-page-1#comment-91 admin Fri, 23 May 2008 09:33:23 +0000 http://www.davidjackson.info/?p=53#comment-91 The theory that I saw suggested that since the local priests couldn't stop the yokels from painting the pagan caveman sign over their houses, they did the usual Catholic trick of baptising him and named him after the local saint (If you can't beat em, join em). The theory that he is a good luck figure for the hunt comes from analysis of the position of the figures, and always finding him under birds, or in the middle of a hunt. I found quite a few Spanish theories that he's Egyptian, since he's similar to figures found in the pyramids. However, considering he's a very easy figure to daub, I think it's probably a coincidence. The theory that I saw suggested that since the local priests couldn’t stop the yokels from painting the pagan caveman sign over their houses, they did the usual Catholic trick of baptising him and named him after the local saint (If you can’t beat em, join em).
The theory that he is a good luck figure for the hunt comes from analysis of the position of the figures, and always finding him under birds, or in the middle of a hunt.
I found quite a few Spanish theories that he’s Egyptian, since he’s similar to figures found in the pyramids. However, considering he’s a very easy figure to daub, I think it’s probably a coincidence.

]]> http://www.davidjackson.info/2008/the-true-history-of-the-indalo-indalico-or-mojacar-man.htm/comment-page-1#comment-90 Lenox Fri, 23 May 2008 08:05:33 +0000 http://www.davidjackson.info/?p=53#comment-90 Rumours that the Neanderthal who painted the first stickman with a hoop over his head and painstakingly wrote the word 'Indalo' under his creation are probably false – or perhaps that was not the name of the subject, but rather the artist's signature. I have also heard that the word comes from the Turkish and means ‘man with a tiny head and a skipping rope’. This may also not be true. The name Indalo, according to what I hear, comes from ‘Indalecio’ (a reasonably common Almerian name). The first bishop of Spain was apparently both an Almerian and an ‘Indalecio’. The name was adopted by the artist group (José Perceval, Canton Checa et al) you mention and the totem was called Indalo. Hitherto, the only name it ever had was ‘el pequeño hombrecillo mojaquero’. The sign is certainly used in Mojácar long before the Indalianos showed up. I looked up ‘Indalo’ in the 27 volume Espasa Calpe encyclopaedia from 1912: no mention. The figure could be anything. It is even suggested that the one in the Cueva de los Letreros was painted there in the ‘thirties by an eccentric archaeologist called Louis Siret. One anthropologist tells me that it is a female protective totem. So – perhaps we should call it La Indala! What is known is that the Indalo was the Mojácar sign until our worst-ever mayor (the one who is currently doing so much for Los Gallardos) signed it away to the Almería tourist authority in the late ‘eighties when places like Adra started painting a rather hunch-backed version of the totem on the sides of their trucks. In exchange, the ad agency that choops from the Almerian ayuntamiento gave Mojacar a brand new design - a sun coming up over a jagged mountain! So special... Rumours that the Neanderthal who painted the first stickman with a hoop over his head and painstakingly wrote the word ‘Indalo’ under his creation are probably false – or perhaps that was not the name of the subject, but rather the artist’s signature. I have also heard that the word comes from the Turkish and means ‘man with a tiny head and a skipping rope’. This may also not be true.
The name Indalo, according to what I hear, comes from ‘Indalecio’ (a reasonably common Almerian name). The first bishop of Spain was apparently both an Almerian and an ‘Indalecio’. The name was adopted by the artist group (José Perceval, Canton Checa et al) you mention and the totem was called Indalo. Hitherto, the only name it ever had was ‘el pequeño hombrecillo mojaquero’. The sign is certainly used in Mojácar long before the Indalianos showed up.
I looked up ‘Indalo’ in the 27 volume Espasa Calpe encyclopaedia from 1912: no mention.
The figure could be anything. It is even suggested that the one in the Cueva de los Letreros was painted there in the ‘thirties by an eccentric archaeologist called Louis Siret. One anthropologist tells me that it is a female protective totem. So – perhaps we should call it La Indala!
What is known is that the Indalo was the Mojácar sign until our worst-ever mayor (the one who is currently doing so much for Los Gallardos) signed it away to the Almería tourist authority in the late ‘eighties when places like Adra started painting a rather hunch-backed version of the totem on the sides of their trucks. In exchange, the ad agency that choops from the Almerian ayuntamiento gave Mojacar a brand new design – a sun coming up over a jagged mountain! So special…

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