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    General Thread 0 Featured August 22 , 2003

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    Mortals, indeed...
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    Author: * Melisa Alexandros - 6 Posts on this thread out of 88 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Oct 15, 2003 - 14:09

    Αγαπημενε μου Νικολαοσ,

    Mortals, indeed, have in their hearts the seeds of immortality.
    That's why they put their deeds in words, in written words... and words remain with their body of scripture, some of them keeping the invisible and inaudible and divine halit of their origin.

    That's why in front of Διοσ Αστραπεωσ we feel the spiritual atmosphere of a cultural tool (a hymn) constructed to deal with the sacred sphere. This is in an instance, a "meteorological" sphere -hyerophanies appear to human beings through the thunder and the lightning, the physical signs of Deity-: αστραπτοντα σελασ νεφεων.

    Also the components visual and acoustic of the hyerophanie: σελασ and παταγοσ (bright and noise, says my dictionary). Make the Divinity mortally comprehensible, through the doors of the senses.


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