Festa das Revenidas-2004-Vilaxoán de Arousa

 

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HISTORIA E ETNOGRAFÍA

 history and ethnography

AS " REVENIDAS " EN VILAXOÁN DE AROUSA

ARTIGO ESCRITO NO " DIARIO DE AROUSA " O 18 DE ABRIL DE 2004

Xa fai uns cantos anos, concretamente no ano 1996, escribira na Revista "Avante e no Correo Galego" un artigo que facía referencia á verba REBENIDAS. Comentaba que, tomando dos escritos de A. Meijide Pardo escritor e investigador sobre os cataláns e a salgadura en Galicia no século XVIII, saquei en conclusión que esta verba puidera vir daqueles barcos que no devandito século viñan de Portugal a cargar a sardiña salgada ao porto de Vilaxoán, a estes barcos chamábanlles no país veciño "bascotes". En Vilaxoán eran coñecidos como "revenidos", pois a singradura era de ida e volta. Unha especie de liña fixa.

De principio, con moitos reparos, tomei este significado de "revenidos" sen darlle unha conclusión definitiva. Pescudando un pouquiño máis, por mor das explicacións que dera no seu día no Correo Galego Carlos Rey, rebatendo o concepto que eu lle daba a esta verba, coido que Carlos ía por bo camiño. Contrastando todo o que el dicía, teño que comentar que a balanza inclinou polos seus escritos, e a eles voume referir.

En galego como en castelán, a verba revenida significa: murcha, estragada, resesa, a etimoloxía non clarexa ren, pois revenir ven do latín reveniere: voltar unha cousa ao primitivo estado. Pero o verbo reber en galego, (verbo moi pouco usado en Galicia) significa torrar, queimar ou abrasar ou sexa que a sardiña rebenida ( con B) é a cociñada á brasa. Falaba Carlos de que en moitas aldeas de Galicia cando fai moito sol, din que: " fai un calor que rebe".

Ao tomar esta definición, tanto por parte de Carlos e agora por min, coido que temos que recoller esta verba (con reparos) coa letra B. Aínda que falando con algún que outro Académico da Lingua Galega, din que mellor sería coa letra V. 

Agora imos coa parte máis saborosa da sardiña Rebenidas. No famoso libro de cociña galega o "Picadillo" de M Puga y Parga que fora editado en 1905, recolleu a principios do século pasado a receita das sardiñas "Rebenidas" a Manuela a Palla, veciña de Vilaxoán, dicindo desta maneira: " Los meses de Julio, Agosto, Septiembre y Octubre es cuando la sardina está en comida, y por lo tanto, cuando constituye un plato delicado, sometiéndolo a la siguiente preparación.

( Instrumental da Salgadura )

Se toman las sardinas que se deseen, se lavan, se secan y se cubren de sal gorda, dejándolas permanecer así de doce a veinticuatro horas. Se colocan luego en una parrilla y se ponen sobre brasas, o en su defecto sobre la plancha bien caliente. Cuando están asadas por un lado se les da vuelta, dejándolas sobre el fuego hasta que se asen por el otro. Deben de servirse en el momento mísmo de salir de la parrilla".

Afondando un pouco da historia sobre a festa das Rebenidas en Vilaxoán, podo dicir que este evento se facía aló polos anos trinta coincidindo coa festa da Virxe do Carme. En 1933 na Revista "Galicia " editada en Madrid comentaba nun artigo a exaltación das sardiñas en Vilaxoán, textualmente dicía: " Si Carril presume en justicia, por sus excelentes criaderos de mariscos, únicos en el mundo, a Vilaxoán de Arousa nadie le disputa la supremacía de sus sardinas cuyas Rebenidas no admiten rival en los mares conocidos........y aún más ". Naqueles anos, esta festa tiña un especial apoio por parte do Alcalde Elpidio Villaverde, xa que estaba vencellado a esta vila pola fábrica de salgadura que tiña en Vilaxoán, sendo un gran impulsor desta industria e dos eventos que se facían en relación coa sardiña.

Despois da Guerra Civil este evento nunca máis se fixo como festa do pobo, non sendo algunha que outra sardiñada de cando en vez por xente particular. Intentouse recuperar no ano 1996 pola Asociación de Veciños, cousa que lograra subvención da Consellería de Pesca e programas xa filmados da TVG, e por causas alleas á Asociación e Xunta de Galicia ( montaxe paralelo do actual Patrón Maior) non se fixo.

En 1933 na festa do Carme de Vilaxoán, os xornais comentaban sobre os "remeiros e rebenidas" da vila e dicían: " ....los remeros de Vilaxoán son los mejores de la Ría de Arousa, evezados como están a lanzarse por el Atlántico recorriendo muchas millas a la caza de un buen lance. Siempre fueron aplaudidos estes atléticos nautas en los grandes concursos de deportes náuticos que se celebran anualmente en Vilagarcia, Vilaxoán, Rianxo y otras partes de la Ría. Vilaxoán es en la bella Ría de Arousa, la gran "Panela" de las sardinas REBENIDAS ".

Recollendo uns escritos da etnografía vilaxoanesa polo poeta e escritor Gonzalo Bouza-Brey, onde dicía: Vilaxoán, é, cecais, un dos pobos arousáns que mellor conservou e defendeu as sinais de identidade dun pobo ao traveso da súa historia, a súa idiosincrasia: o entroido, os choqueiros, o enterro da sardiña, as súas festas populares e as "rebenidas". E sobre as Rebenidas e os Remeiros ten escrito unhas cantigas populares moi fermosas que din así: / Ben ricas son as xoubas, / xa maiores as sardiñas; / pero como están máis boas / en Vilaxoán: rebenidas./ . / Os mozos de Vilaxoán / son mellor que os de Palmeira /collen os remos nas máns / fan voar á traiñeira./.

     Teo Cardalda Fernández

Vilaxoán de Arousa,28-06-2004                                             ------------------------------------------------------------------

     HISTORY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

       The Revenidas in Vilaxoán de Arousa

    Article written in Arousa's Diary on April 18, 2004

Already a few years ago, concretly in the year 1996, he was writing in the Magazine Avante and in the Correo Gallego an article that was referring to the word REVENIDAS.

Was commenting that, taking of Antonio Meijide Pardo's writings writer and investigator on the Catalans and the salazón in Galicia (Spain) in the XVIIIth century, I extracted in conclusion that this word could come from those ships that in the mentioned century  of Portugal to loading the salty sardine on Vilaxoán's port, to estes ships were calling them in the neighboring country "bascotes". In Vilaxoán they were known like "revenidos", since the singladura was of going and return, a species of line fixes.

Of beginning, with many objections, I took this meaning of "revenidos" without giving him a definitive conclusion. Investigating a bit more, for motive of the explanations that Carlos Rey was giving in his day in the Galician Mail, refuting the concept that I was giving him to this word, I believe that Carlos hiba for good way. Confirming everything what he was saying, I have to comment that the scale inclined for his writings. In Galician since in Castilian(Spanish) the re-come word means: faded, torn, the etymology does not clarify anything, since torevenidas comes from the Latin reveniere; to turn a thing to his primitive condition. But the verb "to "re-see" in Galician (very slightly secondhand verb in the Galician language) means to roast, to be hot or to scorch or that the sardine " recoming is cooked to the ember.

Now we go to the tastiest part of the sardine "revenidas". In the famous book of Galician kitchen the "Hash" of M. Puga and Parga that was edited in 1905, gathered at the beginning of last century a recipe of the sardines "revenidas" to Manuela la Palla, neighbor of Vilaxoán, saying hereby: " the months of Julio, August, September and part of October it is when the sardine is in food, and therefore, when it constitutes a delicate plate, submitting it to the following preparation.
" There take the sardines that are wished, wash, dry off and cover of fat salt, leaving them to remain like that from twelve to 24 hours. They place then in a gridiron and put on embers, leaving them on the fire until they take hold for another side. They must be served in the moment mísmo of to go out of the gridiron "

Going deeply a bit into the history on the holiday of the "revenidas" into Vilaxoán, I can say that this event was done for the thirties coinciding with the holidays of the Virgin of Carmen. In 1933 in the Magazine "Galicia" edited in Madrid it was commenting in an article on the exaltation of the sardines "revenidas" in Vilaxoán, textually he was saying: " if Carril presumes in justice, for his excellent breeding-places of seafood, only ones in the world, to Vilaxoán de Arousa nobody disputes the supremacy of his "revenidas" sardines that they do not admit rival into the known seas .......... and furthermore ".

After the Civil war this Gastronomic - cultural event nevermore was done as holidayof the people, not being anyone that another sardinada occasionally for particular people. It was tried to recover in the year 1996 by the Residents association, thing that was achieving subsidy of the Consellería of Fishing and programs already filmed of the TVG, and for reasons foreign to the Association and Xunta of Galicia assembly parallel and bombarded by the Major Boss of the Confradía Ramon Soto did not do to itself.

Gathering a few writings of the ethnography vilaxoanesa for the poet Gonzalo Bouza Brey, where he was saying: " Vilaxoán, is probably, one of the peoples of her Should laugh at Arousa Bay that better preserved and defended the signs of identity of a people across from his history, his idiosyncrasy, the carnival, the masks, the burial of the sardine, his popular holidays and the "revenidas". And on the revenidas and the rowers it has written a few popular very beautiful songs that they say this way: " rich well they are the xoubas / already major the sardines / but since they are good / in Vilaxoán revenidas "/. The young boys of Vilaxoán / are better than those of Palmeira / take the oars in the hands / make irritate the trainera/.

 

Vilaxoán celebrates the weekend after the 16th of July the annual festival of El Carmen. The maritime procession is the most outstanding service. The parties also include a song festival called “Vilaxoán Canta”, an event in which the neighbours sing together, as a massive choir, some popular songs. To make the fiesta complete, some open-air night dances and folk groups performances are held on the streets.

In July, 2004 there was celebrated the holiday of the Recomings REVENIDAS, event organized by the Residents association in representation of his president Teo Cardalda, Commission of Holidays represented by Xoán Quintáns and by the Producer Misto Mister represented by Xoán de Vilaxoán.

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