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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Romanian Winter Traditions / Traditii Romanesti

During winter solstice, when the sun is weak and frost and dryness take over, Romanian peasants conceived ceremonies to help the Sun and Nature to overcome this "temporary crisis."

Romania is a country with a long and complicated history.

It also has a variety of customs, traditions and holidays.
Within South Eastern Europe however, Romania preserved a significant number of traditional customs and celebrations manifest within the strong community of the village.

Peasants possessed a deep knowledge of the way to tend the earth. They had the ability to enjoy life and to dream into the future. They were regular observers of the feasts for the earth, their cattle, the flowers and crops, and the overall beauty of living.
The Romanian customs can be divided into family customs, calendar-based customs and religious customs. They represent a "triptych" marked by the three major life changes: birth, marriage and death.

December 10, 2011 - Village Museum - Bucharest

Village Museum-Bucharest

Monday, October 10, 2011

If I Rise - Summer Thoughts

In your life, you're mad
In your car, you're sad

Oh, you're taller now I've found

Hold your fire course

Oh, you're fallen out

Go and sow your courses

If I rise, they are on my drive

If I believe, it's more than it is

More than it is

If I rise, one more chance

All our dreams, more than this

Oh, you're taller now I've found

Hold your fire course

Oh, you're fallen out

Go and sow your courses

If I thought I wanted more

Get the life more

Just one more call

Though I've never lost

Believe I don't care

Never again

If I believe, there's more than this

Any more than this

If I Rise by Dido and A.R. Rahman, Music Lyrics

The Sun

Monday, August 15, 2011

Forgotten Roads - Tabla Buţii

Don't come after

Ask the mountains

Why couldn't this go on?

Couldn't our happiness go on?

Ask the sun that lightens up the sky

Ask the mountains

Ask the green in the woods and the trees

Ask the mountains

Why couldn't this go on?

Couldn't our happiness go on?

Ask the mountains

Wild woods, highlands

Don't come after

Please don't follow me along

When you read this I'll be gone

lyrics / ASK THE MOUNTAINS/ Vangelis

Tabla Buţii is a "pass" - an alpine passage at the height of 1340m, in the Curvature Carpathians.

The link through this thoroughfare was always made between the Southern Carpathians towards Muntenia and the interior bend of the Carpathians's curvature to the North - West through Ţara Bârsei with Transylvania.

This pathway is easily accessible thanks to the landscape - not very hilly, being the shortest way between Transylvania towards the Occident and the Danube's exits to the Black Sea, towards Levant.

Tabla Buţii spot is the summit, the peak between the Valley of the Teleajen that rises from Muntenia and the origins of Buzău in the Ciucaş Massif towards Transylvania.

The name of Tabla Buţii comes from the printed "tables" - applied in the past on the barrells filled with merchandise during customs, because there was a custom between Ţara Românească and Transylvania.

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