Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening
thought and action-- Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.
Rabindranath Tagore
This poem is from Gitanjali, lit. Offering of Songs, published in English in 1910.
In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond Scythia. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria — "beyond the Boreas" — was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which - if true - suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle...
Dan Holdsworth - Untitled 10 (Hyperborea) Contemporary Artists www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk
Never the Muse is absent from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry and everywhere maiden choruses whirling. Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live. - Pindar, Tenth Pythian Ode; translated by Richmond Lattimore.
Reaching such exotic lands is never easy; Pindar cautioned: neither by ship nor on foot would you find the marvellous road to the assembly of the Hyperboreans.
Suddenly this film, reminds me of Hyperborea....It is filmed in Sweden, somehow close to the Arctic Circle, but the music is Thracian....
I believe that are so many untold stories about our past. I've been always fascinated by the the celtic culture and now I've discovered that the celts actually lived in Transylvania (the place from where I came) ... And this obvious similarity between the celtic art and a mysterious neolithical culture found in my country will lead probably to new answers, new stories about our connections in time and space.
The Celtic culture (or Celts) were a long-recognized cultural group of the Iron Age in western Europe, from about the 11th to the first century BC. The last bits of the Celts are known from Roman histories, while the earliest archaeological components are known as Hallstatt (1200 to 500 BC) and La Tene (500-200 AD) cultures"
Newgrange, one of three passage tombs in Bru na Boinne, was built over 5,000 years ago.
"The Celts were an Indo - European population of warriors living in the northern half of Europe over a vast area stretching from Britain and Ireland to the Carpathians, at one given moment being even present in the Balkans. In the 4th century BC, the Celts reached Central Europe. Their presence on the current Romanian territory was first reported in the second half of the 4th century BC when they exerted a domination up to the end of the 3rd century BC. By the end of the 4th century BC, they were reported to advance inside the Carpathians"
" Ancient authors mentioned the names of Celtic tribes that had settled not only on the current Romanian territory but also on the territory surrounding it.Confronting the information provided in the 1st century BC by Caesar, in his work “De bello gallico“ and in the second century AD by Ptolemeu in his “ Geography “, it seems that in the eastern and western Apuseni Mountains ( the western Carpathians ) the tribe of the Anartians had settled. The Scordscis were archeologically attested in the south, along the Danube. In the 4th century BC, the Celts followed the course of the Danube to the south, where they fought against the Macedonians, led by Alexander the Great and with his successor, Lisimah."
“The locality of Fintinele is particularly rich in Celtic vestiges. The best known cemetery is Dambul Popii, dug a quarter of a century ago. It is the second largest Celtic cemetery in Transylvania, counting by the number of tombs, after the cemetery in Piscolt, Satu Mare county. We are currently carrying out archaeological searches in the locality of Fintinele, at the Lagata cemetery, where 27 tombs have been identified and uncovered so far.. The searches are far from being over."
And now after thousands of years, the celts are coming back in the wonderful land of northen Romania to discover the untold stories of the past.
Shaun Davey introduces Rita Connolly in the National Concert Hall Dublin in September 2009 with a taste of his new creation based on Romanian folklore. A glimpse on Romanian & Irish powerful musical performances.
Water is a documentary film about how human intentions not only change the structure of water, but how our thoughts can alter our environment.
Three million copies of Water were sold in Europe in the first year of its release.
The film stars Masaru Emoto ("What the Bleep Do We Know") and several other scientists from around the world who have, in the last year, discovered new findings about how water truly has memory.
The movie won four 1st place awards in Europe: » Best documentary Film of the year (TEFI 2006) » Best camera work of TV documentary film (TEFI 2006) » Best producer work of TV documentary film (TEFI 2006) » Best popular Science film of 2006 (Laurel 2006)
