HELMET

 Helmet is a concept that, according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), refers to the sector of armor that, in ancient times, protected the face and head of the user. The helmet, in this sense, was made up of different components, such as the headpiece and the visor.

In colloquial language, often linked the helmet to the helmet. The need to cover your head in battle caused the helm's ancestors to appear thousands of years ago. Over time, the device changed its format.

Some helmets, for example, exposed the nose. Others, on the other hand, covered the entire face and head. It is important to mention that helmets also seek to provoke fear in the adversary: ​​that is why they used to be ornamented with animal heads or have sharp shapes .

The nasal helmet was characterized by having an extension that protected the center of the face, including the nose. The great helmet or cube helmet, for its part, was very popular during the Crusades : it only had small holes for the mouth and eyes.

At the beginning of the 15th century, the closed helmet emerged . As the name implies, it did not have openings, but rather had a visor that could be raised and lowered. This helmet also featured a chin guard to protect the jaws and neck.

In both fiction and mythology, the helmet has been quite prominent over the course of several centuries, as can be seen in the following examples:

* Perseus, a Greek demigod, son of Zeus and Danae, stole the helmet of invisibility from Hades, the god of the underworld;

* Ulysses had a very particular helmet, made of sheep's leather and decorated with wild boar's teeth;

* In Don Quixote we find Mambrino's helmet, although it is actually a basin, a container used by barbers while shaving their clients, both to contain soap and to moisten facial hair. This particular helmet is well known popularly, since Cervantes's work has been taken to the cinema and theater many times, and promotional posters usually show Don Quixote with this helmet on his head, although in the work he only has one appearance. little relevant and never used as such;

* Túrin, the protagonist of " The Sons of Húrin ", a novel by JRR Tolkien, receives in the story the helmet of Hador;

* At the beginning of the 16th century, a type of helmet called morrión emerged in Castile , which has a somewhat conical shape and a sharp-looking crest.

Today, the helmets available to riot police or riot police resemble helmets. They have protection against impacts and also a nasal cover that minimizes the inhalation of gases.

On the other hand, in a symbolic sense, some believers of Christianity speak of the helmet of salvation, to refer to a series of tools that allow them to defend themselves from the attacks of their enemies. Just as the basis of the Christian religion is faith, the key element for its destruction is doubt, and this can come spontaneously or as a result of comments from the environment.

When someone who does not believe in God questions the faith of a believer, there are two extreme results: that he manages to convert him to atheism with his powerful arguments; may the latter reinforce his conviction in the existence of God in this confrontation. According to the theory set forth in the previous paragraph, it is thanks to this helmet that they can defend themselves and emerge unscathed from these types of situations, to continue on the path of faith.