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Apology of Athens
Greece would have forgotten today: well, there is, poor thing among the European Union sisters-about a approximate attitude, the crisis even put it on the face of default, demonstrations, riots ... Meanwhile, Greece, called in Greek Ellada, is the ancestor of our cyvivization, and all socio-political models were tested there, long-term era, nothing new was invented. And the worldly acceleration described as the relationship of the gods, people and titans, the philosophy of Iisicism as such - everything is from there. Emphasized by religious wars and dogmatic distribution of Europe, turning to its Hellenic roots, received its second -Renaissance. And again, the world was clogged, and no one knows where to look for the inspiration of the Nail Renaissance, although the trees of Hellenic wisdom were enough for a round.
Photo by A. Tyagna-RodnyIn general, European is because it exists that Zeus fell in love with it, he has fallen the Theos, Deus or just the Verkhobog, and the European culture is more accurately called Greco-Christian than Judeo-Christian, because in Judaism there is only one of the Gd (as it is recommended to write, modestly, in the fear of the Talmudists, and in the Greek pantheon, and in the Greek pantheon Bogommnaya, because the world is contradictory, it has many details and blurry boundaries. The Orthodox pray to the Orthodox not only to Jesus, but also by the mother-consumer, and the noboshandor, and the whole host of saints, believing that different diseases and misfortunes are overwhelmed. They pray to the icons hanging or standing in a row, on them, and people who once lived - prophets, martyrs, martyrs, pray to the doorstep of the bones -marshes, avoiding the line between the divine and human. This is not about theology, but about life practice. In ancient Greece, there were not icons, apulptures (which Catholics followed), since then the sculptors have not appeared better,- I thought, wandering around the Athenian museums. For Ellades, the transition from Zeusov Pantheon to Orthodoxy did not, thus, the mental (or spiritual) revolution.
Photo by A. Tyagna-RodnyWhat is happening: the titans were clearly raging out, they are elements. The son of Kron, the time, the devoted children, Zeus rebelled against his father and defeated the titans. Zeus - the God -man, on Crete, was nourished in the cave with a goat Amalfei, but the human in him - only that he wasolate a man from the entire earthly kingdom, defended him from the elements, and became his side. And so he can turn a bull in order to abduct Europe, Ilebed, and the golden rain, and the sky itself. But the overthrow of the titans does not mean Ichischezniya, the Hellenic world is noteworthy that nothing disappears in it, and it is completely rejected. When people lost the landmarks and therefore began to lead a bad time, Zeus arranged a flood to wash off the dead end generation, only Devkalions had saved the wife, sailing in the ark on Mount Parnas.
The ancient Greek -milestime perception operates with symbols and levels: a person who imagines himself God is brutally punished, and all his offspring is given into the power of the rock, every time to hold on to the level of his competence, including the gods, subordinates to the Head, but life is arranged so that the prohibitions are violated, and even if you get the bonding of one God, this does not mean that you will not be persecuted, the goddess. Revenge: everyone has their own area of responsibility. In this complex Mutting Agreement, mutual agreements are formed by laws and awareness of the choice. Togogs, and titans can be both for a person and against.
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And so I am an imminent policy, the city-state of Athens, where tyranny, oligarchy of Irazy types of democracy tried. Athena is the goddess of wisdom, the thoughts that Zeus gave birth to huts. Any arrangements are the co -existent of thought, and for that Zeus eat a mifida - the element of thoughts, pregnant with Athena - so that it penetrates into the heads (this plot is on the Parthenon pediment). And successfully: the whole player of philosophers who taught politicians appeared in Athens, and they experimented people in different types of society. For example, there was an interesting period when the Athenians did not pay taxes, and only a bracket paid them - those living here, of which there were half of the population, but taxpayers at the same time had no electoral rights. They chose-both rulers and judges-for ten years, backs, citizens (Polit of Greek, not at all like the Polit of our own) themselves predicted laws, voted for them, and sometimes daily.
Photo by A. Tyagna-RodnyGreece is a country, like Russia: the four centuries of the Ottoman yoke, the endless wars of the Nasvoy territory, and Christianity has become a new identity by chance, here is the Orthodoxy to this day merged with the state, although the “look” is an undertaken society. If beauty has become driving force for Catholics, for the Protestants - functionality, then for the Greeks - a connection with the divine, as it was and was like it. Orthodoxy is a division into bottom (“we”) and the top (power, Theos), “us”, as it were, does not have a task (“national idea”, obligation), while we were formulated, they did not force him to follow, and did not become beckoned. While he is not, “we” are free or left.
Athens today is a new city, a hundred times destroyed and rebuilt without frills: white houses of elastic concrete, typical for the 70s. But the main thing is preserved - the sacred Gorakopol. Parfenon survived a miracle - during the Ottoman yoke there was a mosque, the descendant's powder warehouse, exploding when a cannon core fell into it, then the Cathedral, but its giant skeleton resisted, and fragments dedicated to the world were partially found. According to legend, the 27th century went to Acropolis, when the first-prisoner of Attica Cekrops built it and acted as a judge in a dispute between Athena and Poseidon: under whose patronage, the city is long. The dispute is logical: Athens stand between the mountains and the sea (there were no coincidence that there were two political parties - mountains and water, as after many centuries of the crust, during the revolution, soft girondists - by the name of the Bordeaux Sea, the Imontanyarians, the radical party of the mountain), the sea, in theory, should dominate, but the Athena spontaneous. The rod stuck in the ground, and there the olive tree grew. The temple, built on the site of this dispute, is dedicated, however, to both. By the way, I always bring olive oil with me from Greece, I love it more than others.
In Athens - two -flowers - white and ocher. The local marble yellows in the sun, and the marble in Athens is nowhere, even marble steps are led to the “simple” houses, laid out in marble and lined at home, at the hotel where we lived, named the Greek kingorg II - King George Palace, it was simple, even the old picture in the room, and the same room in the room, and the same room in the room. Two colors: white and ocher. The best view was opened in the city: on the left on the square - parliament, on the right, overslery - Acropolis, two of its temples are highlighted at night, so that they seem gold. This is the central area of Athens - Sintagma, the Square of the Constitution. We know this word as a philological term, in Greece all the time come across the origins of words: a metaphor is a transport, a stanza is a turn, the Eucharist is not a holy sacrament, it is apparently “thank you” - the eucheaster of about .
Demonstrators are entering the parliamentary, sets out requirements. I joined one such a rally -navigable toll, it turned out to be protested against the introduction of electronic cards (which they are also entered by us), believing that they will be printed in number 666 of the izapocalypse. So the demonstrators on home -made posters wrote directly and were very worried. The youth passed by, chuckling. Young people have their own churches - bars, cafes, here, on the Sintagma Square, a Public multi -storey store like French FNACA - books, discs, computers, cafes clogged with students, the place is so popular that it is open until late at night. The police struck - all young and pretty, open, cheerful, in appearance not different from students. In the evenings, they chased the Africans who traded fake bags, scarves and glasses, as well as after Europe. It was curious to follow: the legal street merchant, apparently, Arab -handed them a sign when the police approached, they immediately turned into the knotted litter, on which they laid out the goods, and ran into another place. I also visited the “good” Negro (falsity merchants in my performance -I sat on a parapet with a guitar and sang. Nobody, of course, drove him.
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Illegal immigrants, refugees - the number one problem in Europe, Greece, oddly enough, she did not affect. Crete is the island closest to Libya, but they flee to the lampseduza, cover, as in Athens, I saw a few of the same arfall-traders, they immediately catch your eye, unlike Paris or London, where the look no longer isolate them from the common Babylon.
Titans undertook to and tolerate us with earthquakes, floods, fires, but crowds of running-high-ease, also titanium, and we should dig into the Greek history-mythology, it gives answers, replete with examples of how to do it and how it is not necessary.