Funny Holidays - Impersonate Authority Day

In childhood, the people whose opinion becomes the ultimate truth for the child are parents, grandparents, and older brothers and sisters With age, the list of authorities is replenished with school teachers, sports coaches, university teachers and work mentors Our way of life is largely determined by the personalities who lived in previous eras Artists, writers, philosophers and poets embody knowledge, wisdom and talent and become role models For believers, the indisputable authorities are Jesus Christ, Buddha and the Prophet Muhammad For atheists, Newton, Pythagoras, Einstein, Bohr and other scientists are the lights of knowledge People have long respected the opinions of elders and endowed human properties with divine entities Among the Greeks, the personification of the authority of strength was Zeus, beauty and love - Aphrodite, words and speech among the Egyptians - the god Hu, and magic - Heka It is human nature to admire the outstanding traits and actions of both real people and mythical personalities Therefore, a funny holiday is celebrated on June 3 - the Day of the Personification of Authority The founder of Impersonate Authority Day is unknown One can also only guess about the purpose of the celebration However, the word “personification” in the name of the holiday in relation to authority was not used by chance In literature, it denotes a special type of metaphor - the transfer of the features of a living being onto inanimate objects and phenomena Thus, the caduceus is a symbol of wisdom and intelligence, like the mythical tree of knowledge, the snake - wisdom, the sun - vitality By the same principle, authorities are created when a person or group of people begins to consider someone the embodiment of goodness, beauty, justice, honesty and other ideal traits The choice of an object for worship depends on the traditions of the people and their belonging to the nation and culture Thus, in China, the embodiment of wisdom, learning, efficiency and perseverance is the rhinoceros, and insight and prudence is the elephant In West Africa, the panther is a symbol of intelligence and courage; in Japan, the green pheasant is the embodiment of a strong family, and the stork is the embodiment of marital fidelity In honor of the Day of the Personification of Authority, we remember outstanding personalities who have become role models for many people Among political leaders, symbols of fortitude, wisdom and indescribable charisma are Churchill, Roosevelt, Mandela and Margaret Thatcher John Rockefeller and Henry Ford are considered the embodiment of entrepreneurial spirit, luck and adventurism, multifaceted talent - Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol and John Lennon, geniuses of military art - Alexander the Great, Napoleon and Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov These and other authorities from different spheres of human activity and their role in history are discussed during the celebration of the Day of the Personification of Authority