"VIKINGS" Series - Season 2 (2014)

Another very good series that i came across this year was the History Channel`s "Vikings". Yes, despite the few negatives here and there, i really enjoyed the first season and now i`m looking forward for the second.  Reccomended for all those who haven`t checked it yet...

Here is a sneak peek.

200 Years Richard Wagner - Part IV

Anton Von Werner  "Unveiling of Richard Wagner monument in Tiergarten" 1908          

RICHARD WAGNER IN MARBLE

Bayreuth - GERMANY

Cleveland - USA

Munich - GERMANY

Graupa - Germany

Venich - ITALY

Lucerne - SWITZERLAND

Zürich - SWITZERLAND

Baltimore - USA

PREVIOUS PARTS HERE:

Part I

Part II

Part III

An Eye Towards The Archaic Past

Its been already some time passed since the last travel to Ancestral Mystical places of Hellas.

During the summer i was watching a documentary series about places, tombs and customs of Ancient Hellenic antiquity.

That day, this series was about the city of Orchomenos (Which is at Boeotia region) and the Royal Tomb of Minyas. Boeotia is a very familiar place to me (And for sure quite familiar to regular visitors of this blog too),  but i never been at this Tomb before. To my opinion summer is not a good time to visit the monuments in Hellas. Too much heat , tourists e.t.c. makes difficult to feel properly the charm and the mysticism that surround such places. But during Autumn/Winter

the scenery is completely different. Something that turns each visit into a real religious experience! Thats the main reason why i travel and make such type of posts during the winter/autumn months.

As i mentioned above, planed since the Summer,  i returned to Boeotia. In the very old city of Orchomenos. To the place that i saw in this documentary,  named Minyas Treasury or The Tomb of Minyas.  

The Hellenic traveler and geographer Pausanias, in his great work "Descriptions of Greece" writes about this place:

"At Orchomenus is a sanctuary of Dionysus, but the oldest is one of the Graces. They worship the stones most, and say that they fell for Eteocles out of heaven. The artistic images were dedicated in my time, and they too are of stone.

They have also a fountain worth seeing, and go down to it to fetch water. The treasury of Minyas, a wonder second to none either in Greece itself or elsewhere, has been built in the following way. It is made of stone; its shape is round, rising to a rather blunt apex; they say that the highest stone is the keystone of the whole building."

 "Orchomenus"

At the time of Pausanias the Tomb was very old already. It dates back from 13 BC. A place embraced by many myths, lost in the mists of the ages and time.

To that place we arrived at the noon of a grey rainy day...

Martyrs for a Golden Dawn

As most of you know already know, at 1st of November 2013 there was an double assassination outside Golden Dawn offices in Northern part of Athens.

In puropose, i let some days to pass to write few words about it. Media already forgot it after 2-3 days. Now they act like nothing ever happened.

We had not different expectations anyway. 

To all of you , readers outside Hellas , let me assure you. Manos and Giorgos was two young (In their early 20`s) idealists. Involved in Golden Dawn the last 1-1,5 year , they saw Golden Dawn

as good opportunity to fight for the Race & Nation and against all the enemies. They fell for their ideals and their blood marked the soil. Golden Dawn will never forget its martyrs and the best way to honour their

memory is the triumph of the ideals that they gave their life for.

I saw around many people that asked: "Who was behind the murders , the state or leftist terrorists?" The answer is simple. Both! This how politics work in Hellas the last 30-40 years.

When the system saw that nothing happened after all the witchunt of the last month, they sent their armed forces to murder young nationalists in order to scare the rest of GD members, followers and supporters.

They will fail again!

I wrote in my previous articles, and several times in the past that Golden Dawn can`t be stoped. Now within 30 days we had: Imprisonment of a part of the Golden Dawn leadership, several arrests and some trials based on false accusations (Illegal weapon possession e.t.c.),

, a very big number of police invasions in houses of Nationalists all around Hellas, 2 murders and 1 heavily injured e.t.c. And after all this, what happened??? Absolutely nothing!!! Marches organized, all GD offices work normally and people

are still coming to all the Nationalist activities.

In one of his recent articles, the leader of Golden Dawn finish his writting with
  the following words: "For us the members of Golden Dawn, be it known that after the blood of the 1st of November, nothing ever will be the same". This says it all. The fight goes on!