#melilla

english translation: We have to treat people ALWAYS, even in the most difficult moments, like people and not like roaches or Amazon packages. Nor you nor anyone would risk their lives or the lives of their family migrating unless they desperately needed to. Same with them. Spain and Europe have spent years paying Morocco, Libya, and Mauritania, so they can be the ones who “are responsible” for these people and so we can say that we’re a complete democracy. And if you pay a dictatorship like Morocco to do your dirty work, when Morocco wants more, or when the USA and Israel order it, it stops being to blackmail you. (hard to translate this part sry) None of this would happen if there were legal and secure paths of entry and if we stopped relying on murderous dictatorships for our immigration policies. Call out the people in power for fucking once. And the young men and the families who appear in the images treat them like people, PEOPLE.

Is Morocco looking for increased control of the Strait of Gibraltar, the narrow access to the Mediterranean sea?

🐚Aτλαντος θυγατηρ, Καλυψώ, δία θεαων🐚

(Daughter of Atlas, Calypso, beautiful goddess)

I based her look in this headdress I found in google:

I didn’t even investigate the name or if it was a true headdress in Ancient Greece I just saw a form of a sea urchin:

Couldn’t help it🤪 I highly associate Calypso to beaches and these more or less unspiked can be found in beaches.

My personal theory is that Ogygia is located somewhere between Ceuta and Melilla, although most who place it on the North African coast tend to lean more towards the coast of present-day Libya, but oh well, headcanons 😜

For the earring, while looking for historical jewelry from this area, I stopped to look at all the Amazigh traditions of Morocco, but I didn't think Calypso could be representative of a society when she mainly lives on an island (i.e., isolated) with her nymphs (yes, could be considered a society, but idk the amount of nymphs or idk🙁 don’t give me vibes of amazighs).

I looked a little more and found that the oldest jewelry in the world consists of perforated sea snails (Collumbela rustica) dating back more than 150,000 years and were found in a cave in Atlantic Morocco (Atlas lol). The cave is called Bizmoune Cave in the province of Essaouira. yeah a little far from mediterranean region but still Calypso is said to live in a cave and also has beach because she lives in an island. For me Calypso and cave are synonyms, so couldn’t be in another way.

⬆️ Set of necklace beads made from Columbella rustica

⬆️ Collumbella rustica shells 🐚 also present in the Mediterranean Sea

In the rectangle the location of the cave; Ceuta is home to top of the small horn that forms part of the Strait of Gibraltar and Melilla is marked in the map.

Aaaaaaaaghhhhh Calypso why you did that? I would have love you so much😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Port of Melilla, Spain

Sam Jones, Angela Giuffrida, and Jakub Krupa at The Guardian:

At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco in what Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called “a violation of Spain’s territorial integrity”. The huge influx, which took place over the course of just 24 hours, overwhelmed the city of 85,000 people, triggered a political crisis for Madrid and led to a mixed reaction from other EU countries, including calls for Spain to be suspended from the Schengen free-movement zone. Sánchez, who arrived in Ceuta on Friday morning, said he would use all the resources at his disposal to guarantee the safety of the city’s population. He attributed the mass crossing to “human trafficking mafias” that had taken advantage of a decision by Spain’s supreme court, which recently ruled that those intercepted at sea while trying to enter Ceuta, or Spain’s other north African enclave of Melilla, could not be summarily returned under special rules.

Sánchez said: “That has spread like wildfire during these last few hours through the networks of mafias that traffic in human beings and has produced an avalanche of the characteristics and dimension that we experienced yesterday.” Sánchez said a temporary reception centre would be established to facilitate the documentation, registration, triage and “expedited” expulsion of people with no legal claim to be in Spain.

He also said the government would erect a visible barrier – a line of buoys – near the breakwater at Ceuta’s Tarajal beach to make it clear where the border was, and to legally comply with the court’s ruling. Although the Spanish government said about 50,000 people had crossed the border on Thursday and in the early hours of Friday, the president of Ceuta put the figure at about 60,000. Spain’s interior ministry, which has deployed additional police officers and soldiers to the enclave, said more than 48,300 people had voluntarily returned to Morocco by 6pm on Friday.

[...] That crossing came amid heightened tensions between Madrid and Rabat over Spain’s decision to allow the leader of the Western Sahara independence movement, the Polisario Front, to be treated for Covid-19 in Spain. Morocco and the Polisario Front both lay claim to Western Sahara, which was under Spanish rule until 1975, when colonial authorities handed over the territory to Morocco and Mauritania. That diplomatic crisis ended in 2022 when Madrid reversed its longstanding policy of neutrality and backed Morocco’s plan for Western Sahara – a move that had caused a diplomatic rift between Spain and Algeria, which had supported the Polisario group. Sánchez visited Algiers on 20 July – the first such visit by a Spanish head of government in four years – marking a thaw in relations with Algeria.

[...] Ceuta and Melilla have the E​U’s only land border with ​Africa. ‌Both cities ​periodically ​experience surges in attempted crossings by people seeking to reach Europe.

As much as 50,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Most of those have since returned to Morocco.

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The unprecedented influx was orchestrated by Islamists seeking to wage jihad in Europe, and to delegitimize the Moroccan state.