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Bullfighting in Veleaz can trace its origins back to the [[Eortasmós tis zoís]] religious celebration, centred around celebrating life. Early Veleazans held the God Jaungoikoa in the highest esteem, who was represented in both art and earth by the bull. As Jaungoikoa held domain over dignity, morality and discipline, and the bulls were treated with the highest respect afforded to an animal, with the consumption of beef from a bull being considered an insult. The initial bullfighting events consisted of male performers attempting to vault over bulls by grasping their horns, in order to successfully obtaining the respect of Jaungoikoa for seven years. Curiously, as women were considered to be made by Jaungoikoa first and received the gift of life, women were subsequently the only performers that were entitled to kill the bull at the end of a performance, but were only entitled in killing the same number of bulls as children they had, in the hopes it would imbue the child with the spirit of resolve of the deceased bull. | Bullfighting in Veleaz can trace its origins back to the [[Eortasmós tis zoís]] religious celebration, centred around celebrating life. Early Veleazans held the God Jaungoikoa in the highest esteem, who was represented in both art and earth by the bull. As Jaungoikoa held domain over dignity, morality and discipline, and the bulls were treated with the highest respect afforded to an animal, with the consumption of beef from a bull being considered an insult. The initial bullfighting events consisted of male performers attempting to vault over bulls by grasping their horns, in order to successfully obtaining the respect of Jaungoikoa for seven years. Curiously, as women were considered to be made by Jaungoikoa first and received the gift of life, women were subsequently the only performers that were entitled to kill the bull at the end of a performance, but were only entitled in killing the same number of bulls as children they had, in the hopes it would imbue the child with the spirit of resolve of the deceased bull. | ||
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History
Bullfighting in Veleaz can trace its origins back to the Eortasmós tis zoís religious celebration, centred around celebrating life. Early Veleazans held the God Jaungoikoa in the highest esteem, who was represented in both art and earth by the bull. As Jaungoikoa held domain over dignity, morality and discipline, and the bulls were treated with the highest respect afforded to an animal, with the consumption of beef from a bull being considered an insult. The initial bullfighting events consisted of male performers attempting to vault over bulls by grasping their horns, in order to successfully obtaining the respect of Jaungoikoa for seven years. Curiously, as women were considered to be made by Jaungoikoa first and received the gift of life, women were subsequently the only performers that were entitled to kill the bull at the end of a performance, but were only entitled in killing the same number of bulls as children they had, in the hopes it would imbue the child with the spirit of resolve of the deceased bull.
The arrival of the Fiorentine Empire saw a radical change in the way bull-leaping and bullfighting was conducted occurred. The performance evolved from a display of respect for the bull and the god Jaungoikoa, and into a public spectacle, as a way for visiting Fiorentine spectators to watch. It was during this period that male performers were entitled to kill the bull at the end of the performance, but only if they had obtained permission from high priests to do so. It's believed that the sport of bull-leaping and bullfighting in Veleaz was a catalyst for the evolution of the much larger gladiatorial blood sport games that have became significantly more popular and important in the wider Empire than bullfighting.
In the middle ages, the sport became associated with, and by extension, more fashionable with the noble classes, a number of whom began to breed and train both bulls for fighting and bullfighters to face them . The fighting itself lacked much of the theatrics of the modern sport, with it largely consisting of a single bull being released into an arena against a mounted bullfighter who was armed with a lance.. However, just because it was reserved for the rich did not prevent poorer folk taking part, most notable among them being El Ratón, who is said to have been the greatest performer of this art, started life in a poor family and is said to have practiced against cats that roamed the streets of Tolvas.