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Tourism
Geography and Ecology
Second part: The acquisition of places for Leisure and Tourism
The Beach / The Ocean
Ocean as a symbol of death
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In European tradition the ocean
is also the fountain of life
- "Aphrodite foamborn"
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but mainly a force to be feared,
the ultimate
border.
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In mythology and literature:
Gilgamesch Epos - the oldest western "traveller" is
realizing on the ocean than all man are mortal (http://www.lyrik.ch/lyrik/spuren1/gilgame/gilgam01.htm)
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Travelling by boat brings egyptians, greeks, romans into the hades,
the area of death
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The sea is the non-created part of the world in the bible, the
Big Flood is ending all live but Noahs Arc, Leviathan,
Neptun, mermaids, whales, giant octopusses threaten
peoples live.
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In reality:
Before the 19th c. travelling on the ocean is extremely dangerous,
most people cannot swim, ships are often lost in
bad weather.
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So the ocean has
been always seen as
a threat, not a place to be on or look onto for
pleasure.
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Contact: wolfgang.arlt@fh-stralsund.de
Office: 1/132, Tel. (03831) 45 6961
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