“Hat” is a secret language for communication... and a sacred tree is planted upside down

Wings grab the attention of "Expo" visitors using "magic and mystery"

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The pavilions of major countries compete at Expo 2020 Dubai to display the latest and most advanced technologies, whether in the sectors of mobility, opportunities or sustainability, but the visitor finds exceptional magic in the pavilions of countries that may be small, but with a cultural heritage and a history full of stories and mystery.

Many visitors are amazed by the details of pictures and sculptures with interesting histories, such as a hat used as a secret dating language in the harsh past of Suriname, a sacred tree planted upside down in Madagascar, an aromatic oil that prevents evil and envy, and a slave market in St. Kitts.

Beginning with the pavilion of the State of Suriname, the visitor finds a traditional folk costume of a woman with African features, who wears a distinctive hat tilted in a striking way. Or marry without the permission of their masters. The only way to avoid punishment was for the woman to wear the hat in a certain way to convey a message. Asking for a meeting, for example, required that it be tilted as much, and apologizing for the existence of a danger in another situation, and so the hat was a sign language in a time The owners were forbidden to speak.

As for the Madagascar pavilion, it expresses a state with a unique population nature in which dozens of races live in peace, but it is also not without manifestations of magic and mystery. One of the most important features of the plant life in Madagascar.

There are six types of this tree, which grow in Madagascar only, and some types are distinguished by trunks up to nine meters in diameter, and their branches extend up to 30 meters, and they can face harsh living conditions due to the fact that their trunks are full of water.

This sacred tree got the description of “the bottle” because of its strange shape and planted upside down, so that its roots are towards the sky unlike all other trees, and “Baobab Valley” in Madagascar is a unique place, as it is filled with these trees that are more than 800 years old, forming a forest characterized by With magic and mystery.

The Madagascar pavilion also displays one of the products that characterizes this charming island, which is the world-known aromatic oil "Ravensara", and the meaning of its name is "the tree with good leaves", which is certainly aptly named, given that it is considered a medicine for almost all diseases, including addressing evil. And envy and the treatment of depression, anxiety and stress, as well as being an antiviral and an immune stimulant and has been used by the people of Madagascar as a medicine for more than a century.

Moving to the flank of the Bahamas, whose future worries the world in light of its increasingly endangered state, we find a unique reserve that extends over a distance of up to 650,000 square kilometers in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, but it is protected by creatures that are not friendly to many except for the Bahamian people, who cherish and appreciate it. Sharks, and the reserve was established in 2011 with the aim of revitalizing tourism based on the discovery of this type of fish.

On the other hand, the pavilion of the island of "St. Kitts and Nevis" is keen to display a historical aspect of the dark period of slavery, which is "Independence Square", which in the past was a crowded market where slaves from Africans who were captured from their country were sold and transported across the ocean amid horrors and harsh conditions. , to sell those who survived them in this market, which the state turned into a main square now teeming with restaurants and parks, and full of all aspects of joy, unlike its hateful reputation in the past.

• The story of the slave market in “Saint Kitts” .. and oil that prevents evil and envy.