What is the curious mascot of the Paris Olympic Games?

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games have just begun, with the River Seine, Rafa Nadal and the first Spanish medals in judo as the main protagonists. If you have seen any event, perhaps it has caught your attention the curious mascot of the Paris Olympics. What exactly is it?

Called The Phrygesbecause there are two. The shorter one is the Olympian Phryge, “the intelligent one”, with a “methodical mind and a seductive charm”, according to the French Olympic CommitteeThe Paralympic Phryge is the tallest, and as can be seen in the opening image of the news, he has a prosthesis on his leg. He is “a party animal, spontaneous and a little excited.”

Phryges are neither people nor animals. They are anthropomorphic objects, that is, objects with the shape of a person.But what exactly is the pet of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?

The mascots of the Paris Olympics, a symbol of freedom

These cute pets are a Phrygian capa kind of hood with wings to cover the ears, which have been worn for centuries a symbol of freedom. Although, curiously, this symbolism comes from a mistake.

The Phrygian cap is named after the region of Phrygia in Turkey. However, it is used in many different countries because it is very practical.

During the French Revolutionand the American one as well, became a symbol of liberation. Marianne, the expression of freedom in the famous painting “Liberty Leading the People” by Eugène Delacroix (1830), wore it:

The Phrygian cap is also present on the coats of arms of many American countries.as ArgentinaColombia, Cuba, Haiti or El Salvador.

According to historians, Its use comes from an error: at some point in history, The Phrygian cap was confused with the pileus capwhich was the clothing originally associated with freedom.

The freed Roman slaves of Ancient Rome, the freedmen, received the pileus cap, wearing it as a symbol that they had achieved freedom.

But in the 19th century, the pileus cap was confused with the Phrygian cap, and became associated with the concept of freedom. It is a national symbol in France.that is why it has been used as mascot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

As is always the case, when it was introduced in 2022 it caused a division of opinions, as many French people were not too happy that the Olympic mascot was a cap, or that a symbol of freedom was used frivolously.

If you follow the broadcasts of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, You’ll see lots of Phryges running around there.. Now you know exactly what they symbolize.

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