Tarentola mauritanica

Tarentola mauritanica, juvenil.

I really don't know when was the first time I went in contact with... in my childhood my grandfather was the first to point me one saying that they were friendly helpers on our everyday dids, feeding on mosquitos, flies, and also other night butterflies near the edge of his orchard shack. This little dragons have traditional mystical beliefs saying that they are some sort of nasty creatures that if touched produce skin rush, or some other sort of strange diseases, that even nowadays fill traditions and ancestors and myths that built our cultural knowledge. Since those ancient times towards it's understanding, through knowledge, towards and beyond. This little creature is called ''osga'', a quite particular portuguese word that vocally remembers fear, apprehension, rush, and unfamiliarity, when it is vocalized.

I believe I have an instamatic shot with this friend, and surely that I've made pictures with digital cameras, and others more taken with a decent reflex cameras, and so many other that surely are yet to come. The "Osga", culturally rooted in the culture of a people, is above all an immaterial heritage. A memory since ever.