auspice

It is known as auspice to a contribution, usually financial, so that a certain action. The people, companies or organizations that sponsor are known as sponsors.

For example: "This morning, under the auspices of the local municipality, a new edition of the Culture Without Borders art festival was held", “The director of the channel told me that we need to get new sponsorships if we want our Program keep broadcasting ", "We appreciate the sponsorship of Mersop SA for the realization of this event".

In a broader sense, as detailed in the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), the sponsorship is a sponsorship, a protection or one assistance that is provided. Suppose a club plans to host a non-profit sporting event. To develop the event, it requires the financial assistance of companies or individuals willing to help. Finally, thanks to the sponsorships gathered that allow it to cover the expenses, the club manages to carry out the meeting.

Getting the sponsorship of companies and individuals to carry out a project is not easy, and requires a lot of promotional work. Nobody wants to invest their money in an unpromising or poorly exposed plan. On the other hand, many times the sponsorship hides the twisted intention of a favor in return that is not clearly expressed at the time of the agreement.

Sponsorship can also be a augury or one sign. In ancient times, the idea of ​​sponsorship alluded to the practice that consisted of predicting the future from suspected signs detected in birds. The fortune tellersaugurs) observed the sky and, according to the birds that already found their behavior, made favorable or negative predictions. The rulers, in this framework, used to make decisions according to auspices.

This meaning can be seen directly in the etymology of the word, since it is composed of the Latin term used to refer to birds and of the verb that we can translate as "to see, to look at." In a literal sense, we could say that auspice it means "the person who watches the birds."

Among the best known auspices, one is attributed to the founding of Rome. The legend account that Romulus Y Rowing They agreed to define the exact location by demonstrating their ability as augurs. In this way, they sat down to observe the sky: Rowing saw six vultures and Romulus, the double. From the interpretation of this auspice they decided the site.

So, Romulus used the auspices to determine the point at which the foundations of Rome should be laid, and by means of a law he prohibited any official from admitting public positions or positions, or even his own dignity real, until it had acquired favorable auspices.

Although the auspices as a fundamental resource to make decisions related to private and public businesses, and even the union in marriage, went through several changes throughout the story, both in the methods that were used to obtain them and in the objects involved.

For example, one of the types of auspices was based on the path marked by pikes, arrows and darts that the Romans threw through the air, which served to predict the end that would have a certain battle. Animal exploitation has been part of our history since time immemorial, and that is why it could not be absent from this divinatory discipline. In this context, one of the practices consisted of joining two animals and observing their behavior to determine luck: if they collided, then the future was not promising at all.

Some animals received fatal wounds and the patronage was detached from the behaviour they had before they died, the way they collapsed or the sounds they made with their last strength.