ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGY
Motto:
"Truth needs only two groups of people to surface: some
to express it and others to hear it." (Henry THOREAU)
The well-known Greek historian,
Herodotus, used to say the following about Thracians: "...after
the Indians, the Thracian people constituted the largest ethnicity
among all the rest of the world's races. Should they benefit from
one ruling only and be spiritually united, they might acceed to
become, in my opinion, absolutely undefeatable and to surpass,
by far, the greatness of all the other Earth's proud races. The
Thracians bear many names, each one according to their living
regions, yet all of them show, through almost everything, highly
similar customs". But, if Herodotus' knowledge was limited
to some 19 Thracian tribes, another historian, Strabon, was nevertheless,
depicting no fewer than 22 tribes! Obviously, among such a rich
variety of tribal social life forms, some religious differences
must have existed, which can no longer be known today. The point
is that the Thracian race was great throughout all the Antiquity,
and famed because of their physical resistence and their overall
skills regarding traditional medicine. A proof of the latter would
be to quote Socrates, the great Greek plilosopher, who was once
confessing to have personally learned, straight from one of Zalmoxis'
apprentices, an incantation of those "ABLE TO MAKE HUMAN
BEINGS IMMORTALS". Much later, across centuries, Clement
from Alexandria was reproaching to the Greeks a "lack of
originality" within their own civilization, and that these
would have learned from Thracians their curative incantation formulas:
"Sanas incantationes a Thracibulus accepisti" (in Latin,
from: Clement of Alexandria, "Appeal Towards Nations",
Migne, page 18, column 175b).
THE DIVINITIES: THE GREAT
GOD GEBELEIZIS AND THE GREAT GODDESS BENDIS
Gebeleizis, or Nebeleizis,
was the Thracians' Supreme Divinity lightning constituting only
one of the "weapons" that this he was said to have used.
He was represented through the shape of a handsome sculptural
male, occasionally wearing a beard. Gebeleizis provoked thunder
and lightning. In some representations, he appears seated on a
majestic throne, while in others on horseback, holding an arch
in his left hand. A snake is seen coming down versus the horse's
head. He is also accompanied, at times, by a one-horned vulture.
The vulture holds a fish in its beak symbolizing the named Divinity
by itself, and also has a rabbit entrapped within its claws. This
God embodies the Absolute Master upon Heaven and Earth, the Patron
of military aristocracy. He might possess, though, some Uranian-
Solar attributes. The Supreme God, the Great God Gebeleizis is
also known under the nicknames of Derzelas, Derzis or the Thracian
Knight (others consider "THE THRACIAN KNIGHT" as being
a later apparition of some Hero, and not of a God). Other times,
the God shows up in the hypostasis of a warrior horseman, accompanied
by a faithful hound. He holds a spear as an insignia of power,
which is ready to be thrown upon a wild boar from the horse's
gallop. When not being shown under a warrior or hunter's appearance,
he appears as a peaceful horseman, carrying either a torch or
a cornu copia. Sometimes, he is presented as having three heads
(Tricephalus), alike the accompanying hound, while othertimes
as a blessing God, having his right hand's first three fingers
risen or opened, the rest being tightened towards the upper palm.
He shows up in these ways within all epigraphic and numismatic
testimonies found at the ancient cities of Histria and Odesos
(the latter presently called Varna). At Limanu (Constanta County),
Derzelas appears shown on horseback, as he similarly may be seen
on the Racatau and Zimnicea old pottery, or the Bucharest-Herastrau
and Surcea (Constanta County again) discovered hoards.
We shall also encounter him
later throughout the Antique world, at the Macedonians -"Macedonian
Horseman", while Greek Mithology would similarly carry him
under the supreme name of Zeus. From Thracia, Gebeleizis' cult
had spread to penetrate inside Asia Minor during 7th century B.C.,
where it was promptly assimilated by Armenians up to becoming
their National Divinity, namely Vahagn or the God of War, most
famous for his courage in slaying dragons. Vahagn was associated
with lightning and thunder, being represented like an imposing
man with hair and beard carved out of flames, while "his
eyes were scintillating like two Suns". Ultimately, Gebeleizis
or "the Thracian Knight", who is to be found in other
people's Mithologies as Zeus or Vahagn, has been logically assimilated
by Christian nations to become... Saint George (or Gheorghe) killing
the Dragon!
The Supreme male Divinity
of Geta-Dacians Gebeleizis, later referred to, at the Lower-Danube
area Thracians under the likely Greekenized name of Zbelsurdos,
also goes by having a feminine alter-ego, a double named BENDIS,
the Great Goddess. Ancient representations, recently discovered,
show her to our eyes through the face of a full-figured woman,
with prominent cheek bones and curly hair either plaited into
two tresses or splitted into two big curls surrounding her lovely
looks. Is it really possible that the Goddess Bendis, with her
two very long blond tresses gently resting on her back, might
actually be a predecessor of the fairy Ileana Cosanzeana, from
the later-born popular tales of Romanians? In certain situations,
the Goddess appears standing between two sacred animals, which
are either deers-like, or between a buck and a snake. The Great
Goddess Bendis was mostly adored by Thracian women, for she was
embodying the Goddess of Moon, Forests and... Magical charms.
A head of the Goddess was discovered at Costesti, while archaeological
digging around ruins of the old Sarmisegetuza fortress has brought
to light a burned-clay made medallion (measuring 10 cm in diameter
and 1.5 cm thickness) showing a Goddess bust with a quiver on
shoulder. One of her bronze made busts was discovered at Piatra
Rosie, measuring 14.7 cm in height and 13 cm width.
Besides the Supreme God Gebeleizis
and the Great Goddess Bendis, Thracians have also had a Divinity
of Flames and Fireplace and Guardian of the House, respectively
the Goddess VESTA (or Hestia, Histia), to the veneration of whom
Thracian houses were built strictly in a rectangular form with
stoned or wooden walls. The floor was of trodden soil and had
a "two-angle" roof. Not far away from Tartaria region,
inside the triangular area of the three "Crish" rivers,
astounding remains of the first surface dwellings dating from
as early as fifth millenium B.C. have been recently uncovered,
meaning they were no less than 7000 years old! These types of
dwellings, which would spread afterwards through the entire world,
indeed seemed to have been the result of a cult dedicated to this
Goddess. The walls were initially meant to protect the sacred
space within, and in the middle, flames were lit in a fireplace
which were constantly taken care of to keep alight.
The fourth millenium B.C.
wasn't exactly a lucky one for the future-to-be Romanian people,
stated the experts referring themselves to the crumbling period
of the legendary continental bridge which was linking Europe with
Asia Minor. This bridge collapsed under the waters of the Mediterranean
Sea, thus leaving plenty of room for the formation of a brand
new sea, named the Egean Sea. This generated as well a multitude
of larger and smaller islands. Due to the very existence of this
terrestrial linking bridge, both ancient and modern Greek historians
were entitled to acknowledge the possibility of a migration for
the Thracian population from the Pontic-Danubian region to the
South of the Balcan Peninsula, and from there, towards Asia Minor
itself, reaching to some lands around the Eastern Mediterranean
such as Bytinia, Missia, Phrygia, Throada, Lydia etc. As it is
known today, the fate of each of these civilizations evolved quite
differently. Some "lost themselves" among more numerous
tribes and completely "vanished" as national identity
inside History's immense pit called "forgetfulness"-the
Hititians, for instance. Others disappeared at vast distances,
as is the Trojans' case, about whom a legend (Virgilius' "Aeneida")
tells how Aeneas, the Thracian, guided the survivors of Troja
fortress' doomsday up to the Tybrus River's narrow valley on the
Italic Peninsula, where they took over Seven "eternal"
Hills and afterwards, gave them Thracian "Latin" names.
Still, another legend states that within the Carpathian Space,
an extremely wise sheperd, Zalmoxis, showed up who was to take
over "the Noble Laws" (that is, the "Beleagin's
Code") from the Goddess Hestia (or Vesta).
Zalmoxis-A PROPHETICAL
GOD OR A WORSHIPPED PROPHET
Here are Herodotus' testimonies
on Zalmoxis: "According to what I have found out from the
(ancient) Greeks living on the shores of Helespontus and Pontus
Euxinus (which is today known as the Black Sea), the Zalmoxis
whom I'm talking about, being just a mortal, was actually a former
slave on Samos Island, specifically belonging to Phytagoras, son
of Menesarcos. Being granted, afterwards, free man's status from
his grateful master, he would skillfully amass large riches and
would return to his homeland after accumulating enough wealth,
where he would build a large mansion meant to host important gatherings
and personally receiving these people and summoning the Thracian
land's leaders to party. Meanwhile, preaching everybody that none
of them, or their descendants would ever die for real, but everybody
was to go to a certain place instead, where they would indeed
live forever and enjoy all the finest meals and pleasures which
they would only dream of. As he was accomplishing all the already
mentioned deeds and was saying such things to the crowds, he secretly
ordered an underground residence to be constructed for himself.
When it was ready, Zalmoxis disappeared from the nucleus of Thracian
social life and descended to his underground "bunker".
He lived there for about three or four years. The Thracians thought
he had vanished and wanted him back dearly, lamenting his loss
as if he were really dead. At the end of his 4th year, Zalmoxis
appeared once more to their eyes, thus managing to make his teachings
believable through some kind of "personal example".
Regarding Zalmoxis' background itself and his underground hiding
shelter, I personally don't fully reject everything that is said,
but don't believe too much in it either. It seems to me, though,
that he might have actually lived many years before Phytagoras'
time.So let Zalmoxis be well, whatever he represents, either a
human being or some Demon of the Geta (namely Thracian) people"
(Herodotus, "Histories", volume IV, pages 94-95). As
we can see, the naive identification of God Zalmoxis with one
of Pythagoras' slaves, who became afterwards free and wealthy,
is being disputed even by Herodotus himself. Why should WE believe
it then?...
Similar accounts are also
made by Hellanicos from Mithilenes, by the Great Plato, Mnasea
(this last one was even considering Zalmoxis as the Eternity God
Chronos!), Diodorus from Sicily, Strabon mostly, Apulleius, Lucianus
from Samosatas, Orygenes, Porphyrius (232-304) and Julian the
Apostle, Aeneas from Ghaza, and Hesychios from Alexandria. All
of them heard and discussed about Zalmoxis who remained within
people's memories as a God of the so-called "Underworld Kingdom",
as being otherwise suggestively described by the Romanian National
Poet, Mihai Eminescu, in his poem "The Phantoms":
"On a huge Throne carved in rock, sits rigidly, pale, yet straight,
With his hand holding the
Staff, the Pagan and righteous Priest..."
Lithuanians, at their turn,
are going to take over "our" Zalmoxis as God Zemeuks,
the name signifying "Land" or "Country". He
still represents the God of the Earth's depths, but nevertheless
the God of vegetation and fertility, the God of ploughmen and
sheperds. But, if Gebeleizis was promising them only the immortality
of spirit (for the ritual of cremating dead ones on funeral pyres
is associated to his cult), Zalmoxis was yet overgranting to his
faithfuls COMPLETE IMMORTALITY, both for the soul and body (the
funeral procedure being, in this case, burial), while the believers'
spirits would keep on living inside the Kingdom of the Underworld
God (just alike Harald's, the teen-ager King, next to Maria's,
the Danubian Queen, from the same poem "Phantoms" of
our Great Eminescu).
The concept of Zamolxian immortality
was representing the very Ethics' concept among all young warriors
of the "the Dacian (Thracian) Wolves", who were enjoying
the imminent Death's perspective and were even laughing at it,
precisely in order to show their indifference towards such an
event and their looking forward to faster reaching God's underground
meadows. These youngsters were fighting and dying joyfully under
the "Wolf's Head" Dacian banner, which we would also
encounter at the Macedonians, as well as at the so-called "Roman
" legions later, that had actually been formed from Thracians
living within boundaries of the Roman-occupied territories.
Human sacrifices for religious
purposes had proven to be quite singular in Europe, and one can
find them strictly among Thracians. With this perspective in mind,
most interesting appears to be a certain similarity with the Aztec
civilization's religious traditions, about whose civilization
Edgar Cayce was surely stating that they would be direct descendants
of the "Atlantis" people (namely, inhabitants of former
ancient continent Atlantida, from which the very last portion
of land went down in the middle of Atlantic Ocean, through a huge
disaster, some 12,600 years ago). Should this peculiar resemblance
provide a clue, with respect to a very close friend's suggestion
in supporting the presumed joint origin between Central America's
Indians and Thracians?... Once every five years, Zalmoxis was
sent a kind of "messenger" who was to inform the God
on the people's wishes. The chosen one, some young warrior of
great physical beauty, unparalleled courage in battles and untainted
morality, was thrown into three sharpened spears belonging to
his fellow warriors. Should he have had the bad luck not to die
instantly, he would be insulted and mocked while another "herald"
was prepared and immediately "sent" to personally deliver
his message to the Underworld God.
While Zalmoxis represented
a God of the "Underworld", Gebeleizis was the "Heavenly"
God. The discoveries in Orastie Mountains, as well as of the Great
Circular Sanctuary within the Sarmisegetuza (Dacians' main fortress),
with its pillars' regular disposal, lead us to assume that some
celestial examination was also carried out. Archaeological excavations
done under the Cluj native historian Constantin Daicoviciu's supervision
have brought to light, within the Gradistea Muscelului area (Orastie
Mountains), not only an entire complex of Sanctuaries but also
a likely original Dacian calendar, and also the remains of a staircase
which was, probably, leading towards an underground place of religious
cult.
From a wise man such as Socrates,
the Great Greek philosopher quoted by one of his peers, namely
Plato, we learn about Zalmoxis to have been, besides a brilliant
psychotherapist, also a... magician. Overall, a person to whom
our forefathers owe their spiritual status through one of the
most righteous and human social order Antiquity has ever had.
For we have been indeed a kind of "spiritual State",
ambivalent creation of the ones initiated by Zalmoxis and of the
Great Priests from Kogaion, the Holy Mountain, a reason for which
our boundaries lasted always virtually unchanged, even if, at
times, either some civilization overlappings or brief artificial
territorial divisions might have occured. As Alexandru Strachina
has said, in his book "Trailing the Forgotten Ancestors":
"Water flows by, yet ... WE remain". And it is merely
odd how most of our modern historians are still able to justify
their naked indifference towards all these blatant facts.
In order to better outline
the existence of a SOLAR CULT among Thraco-Geta-Dacians, along
her book, "Romanian Archaic Linguistic References",
Dr. Mariana Marcu mentions "the Thracian Horseman" HEROS,
also cited in some Egyptian epigraphic documents (as HEROUS, son
of the Solar God Amon Ra himself), while several other researchers
have argued that this Divinity would represent nothing else but
a newer hypostasis of Horus!... The Thracian Knight's Myth appears
difficult to understand. Sometimes, his head is shown surrounded
by a Solar halo, a four-leaves rosette. It was assimilated by
the Greek population at once with their arrival within the Balcan
Peninsula, between 1900-1400 B.C., as Zeus (Helios), the Supreme
Divinity, also known under other names like Nefelegeretes (actually,
the Greek version of Nebeleizis) -meaning "the One who Gathers
Clouds", Ombryos -"the Rain Maker", Keraunos -"the
One who Lightens" and some more. Within the entire Romanian
tradition (that includes Dacian-Romanian, Aromanian, Macedonian),
the Thracian Knight's Myth makes an almost canonical scenario
of the old Christmas Carols in winter.
An astonished Mr. C. Cinodaru
was noticing that Thracians used to hold so-called "PAGAN
CELEBRATIONS" during entire APRIL, precisely organized in
order to honor THE THRACIAN HERO. Simultaneously with Christianity's
consolidation within the Thraco-Dacian zone, this celebration
has been replaced with "Saint George's" ("Saint
Gheorghe's"), a holiness whose iconography was apparently
inspired by that of the "Thracian Knight". Though, in
certain Christmas Carols, Saint Gheorghe and Jesus' names misteriously
interchange, creating in this way a total discrepancy between
the Carol's greeting verses and their supposedly singing time,
respectively the Winter season:
"Along the Sun's river meadows
Grow white-bluish apple flowers.
It's God's flower garden essence,
Whitish flowers, apple flowers,
Apple essence, whitish
flowers."
Or:
"...His black spurry little horse
Glistening like some raven,
Still his arrow-style cut bonnet,
Bent upon the eyes
Or his mighty spear,
Summer everlasting,
Evening flash of lightning..."
Anybody can see that nothing
is mentioned within this so-called "Christmas Carol",
which might suggest the Winter period. Yet, summertime appears
to be explicitly recollected, as well as an extra quotation of
"the Evening Flash of Lightning", namely what was the
Thracian God Gebeleizis' symbol. Do you still have any doubts
left about it? Within other Romanian Christmas Carol cycles, besides
a personification of the Sun itself, the Sun's elder "sister",
Salomina, shows up also. Nevertheless, the bride of the Hero coming
back from hunting was named Ileana Daliana, or sometimes Lina
Melina. We should remember here the Spring time for the Solar
God's Celebration at the Thraco-Dacian tribes, just like its environmental
background appears clearly pointed out along these "Christmas
Carols" narrating, in fact, the time of Nature's rebirth
and flourishing of "the apple whitish flowers".
And if within this mythological
Romanian-Pelasgian, Thracian or Geta-Dacian puzzle, you choose
to name it, we have been successful in discovering, together,
our forgotten Faith in the Great God Gebeleizis, the Great Goddess
Bendis or Histia, the Goddess of Flames and Fireplace, you still
wouldn't have been told the essential unless we also mentioned
a Great God of War's existence, namely ARES. The famous Black
Sea-exiled Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) speaks
in his writings about the "Geta individual" next door
who was worshipping Ares (an equivalent to the Roman War God Marte),
while another Roman, Vegetius, comes to proclaim, no more or less,
that "the God Marte has been born from within Thracian Land".
And, should we also pay respect to Jordanes' declarations, who
was stating that "the Geta people have always adored Marte
through an extremely savage cult, killing war prisoners as sacrifices
dedicated to His glory...", why should WE wonder then how
VLAD THE IMPALER, whom Americans love to call "DRACULA"
through Bram Stoker's work of factual History distortion, used
to punish the Turkish invaders on Romanian soil by "practicing"
his gruesome, Middle Age habit on around 40,000 living prisoners
daily?!... On the other hand, on the Roman Emperor Trajan's bas-relief
sculpted Column in Rome is presented, probably, the most ancient
Warrior God ever, looking grim and ferocious, constantly soliciting
a great number of human sacrifices to His glorifying pleasure.
Here also appears the barbarian scene of Roman war prisoners being
tortured by... Dacian women!
At the South of Danube River,
Thracian civilization living around the area used to celebrate
as well DIONYSUS, the Grape-Vine Divinity, Patron of the well-known
dizzying liquor, whose cult has again been taken over "en
passant" by the Greeks who, by this time, were fair-spirited
enough in reminding the World that, shortly before Dionysus' coming
back home in Thracia, he had initiated himself on Phrygian mysteries
at the insistences of His grandmother! Besides the grape-vine,
the ivy counted as well among this God's favorite plants. Leaves
of the latter, chewed by His extremely "hot" worshippers
in combination with large wine quantities, were inducing within
those not only drunkeness but even a temporary stage of madness,
a mania. Thus, the fact that by far the Thracians' most popular
celebration was dedicated precisely to THIS God shouldn't look
so surprising. It was annually held in the Autumn, once the grape-vine
harvest and grape squeezing were in full progress (some researchers
argue, though, it might have taken place once every three years).
The night when wine was finally boiling was actually the party's
proper night, at the torches' light, and everyone would drink
merrily, keeping the party on going this way well into dawn. Maybe
this is why Thracians were widely said to be polygamous men.
Herodotus, the Greek historian, describes each of them as supportively
keeping several wives. Should a "Head of Household"
have died, his surviving women were also to face an essential
challenge, respectively one mostly beloved by the deceased had
to be on the spot identified, so that the closest relative could
strangle her in order to be buried along with the late husband.
Yet, all other remaining women were simultaneously experiencing
genuine pain and great shame not to have been selected as the
chosen one (Herodotus-"Histories", fiftth volume, pages
5, 8).
Opposite to the Grape-Vine
God's wanton celebration, lasting through centuries was the cult
of THE THRACIAN PRIEST, a relevant symbol for the beautiful, future
life's acceptation, which was to be dedicated as well to human
beings as to all other creatures' welfare. Thus, "THE SPHYNX",
a giant megalithical rock standing alone on the Bucegi Mountains'
upper platform and having this peculiar shape, was representing,
to all Geta people, no less than the so-called "NIGHT MASTER",
an entity later acquired by the same ancient Greeks as ORPHEUS.
On another hand, every ancient author has written that "the
Orphical Mysteries" were indeed celebrated during night time.
However, due to their esotherism, Geta-Thracian Religion's elevated
concepts were only acquainted to the Great Priests surrounded
by a few initiated elite members. The Greek and Roman writers
couldn't have left too much information about it, while being
totally denied access within the Zamolxian mysteries.
Now, let us return to the
"Night Master's" credo, a highly civilizing belief in
Music able to tame not only humans, but nevertheless animals,
by either cooling down their violent impulses or just soothing
the evil instincts inside. Strabon, the already mentioned reputed
historian, was also familiar with the last detail on such Pelasgian
Priests, or "Prophets", namely telling us that these
ones were omniscient men, truly skilled upon the dreams, Oracle
prophecies and Divine signs' interpretation, who used to live
in specially carved Underground Sanctuaries (called "katagoian",
or "kagoian"). Regarding Orpheus' origins themselves,
several Greek and Roman legends state that he WAS too a Thracian,
"Prince of the Kyconian people" (which makes a perfect
ethnical correspondent to the "Kogoian" term). Orpheus'
native fortress is said to be Dion, and thus his descent comes
from the legendary "Kogoian", Zalmoxis' Sanctuary.
THRACIAN SANCTUARIES
The whole mythical "PANGAION", or "PANGEUL" MOUNTAIN was said to be a sacred place to all Southern Danube area's living Thracian population. On this holy location there supposedly existed a multitude of Sanctuaries, particularly because the mountain also contained plenty of richnesses, such as Gold and Silver lodes. It is assumed to have been situated somewhere within the Dragojon Massif, located in the Oriental Rodophes (a native place, also, for... Spartacus, the Pelasgian gladiator who was to fight and die hard for shaking the very foundations of Roman Empire). Other Sanctuaries were also discovered at Kilicine. Still, logically speaking, similar worshipping places must have existed and been dedicated to the glory of Great Goddess Bendis... if Thracians living in Athens, that is far away from their homeland, were nevertheless able to build a "Bendideion" for their Goddess. For the legendary Pangaion, as a main Thracian worshipping premise, seems to have been exclusively dedicated to Gebeleizis, whose Uranian- Solar Priests, the otherwise called "Wanderers through Clouds", were arguing the human body to be nothing else but the "spirit's prison", the only salvation for the soul being its liberation from the "reclusive" corpse.
Should we quote Adrian Bucurescu
in accordance with his work, "The Secret Dacia", the
LEGENDARY KOGAION was represented exactly by that mountain which
was sheltering a cave where the Pelasgian Great Priest sought
at times, refuge and confinement. Strabon writes inside his "Geography"
(volume VII, pages 3-5) the following: "...In the same way,
this Mountain has also been acknowledged as Sacred, and its very
Geta name properly reflects the fact already mentioned: its name,
Kogaion, is just alike the River's flowing near by. "KOG-A-ION"
signifies "THE MAGNIFICENT'S HEAD", defining also the
Bucegi Mountains' Platform where a mammoth sculpted mysterious
stone head, covered with some kind of holy cap and locally known
as "the Romanian Sphynx", is still to be found".
Now, the river flowing "near by", at the mountain's
proximity and which Strabon was depicting, couldn't have been
another one but the Ialomitza, also called by Geta people through
the name "Naparis", meaning "the Heavenly One"
or "the Divine One". Yet, the one and only Geta-Thracian
inscription explicitly referring to the name of Kogaion appears
today to be a single text, made of Orphical versets, on a brick
discovered at Romula (Resca, Dobrosloveni, inside the Olt County),
sounding as follows: "Great is the God, always and everywhere!
Thus should the Heros say, while looking towards Kogaion! Let
the Disciples (namely, new recruits) sing: Holy is the Night Master!"
When Strabon used to carefully
remind his readers about Dacian Priests living in underground
shelters, he was actually referring to THE PRIESTS OF Zalmoxis,
the same UNDERWORLD GOD who, from within KOGAION, was offering
to his followers a THOROUGH IMMORTALITY, extending itself over
body and soul as well. And should THE SPHYNX from Bucegi have
represented, for the ancient Geta people, Orpheus' Head, either
sculpted by human hands or moulded through some natural phenomena,
at any rate it WAS, and WILL EXIST there FOREVER, within the Land
of legendary Kogaion, always creating mysteries and spreading
a majestic quietness.
Ultimately, I sincerely hope to have succeeded in sketching a complete Mythological Pantheon of our Forgotten Forefathers, either Pelasgians, Thracians or Geta-Dacians, as you choose to name them. Any so-called "Trajanic", "Latin" and "Slavonic" topics don't really belong to US, yet they were subsequently added within time by:
1). any of those willing to generate delusion and minimize the Carpatho-Danubian area population's essential role to the later development of European Civilization, by suggesting that Romania's present corresponding geographical region was not at all the very starting point, the civilization's cradle, but only an obscure province of the now fallen Roman Empire;
2). the ones to have always wanted some territorial revendication upon Romania's various regions, claims that were to be, somehow, vindicated, the only arguments capable of winning ignorants and fools' confidence being the ones related to "origins", "language", "religion" and "history", last one most easily in being mystified;
3). any of those affiliated
to special groups of interest, regarding another World's geopolitical
division and, as a result, being directly concerned in undermining
both the importance and influence which the Romanian people's
millenary civilization and culture still own among the Great Family
of Nations around the Globe.
There exists, nevertheless,
a so-called "FATE OF TRUTH", and, just as THOREAU has
once cleverly pointed out, this one "needs only two groups
of people to surface: some to EXPRESS IT and... others to HEAR
IT".