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The Conquest of India by the Carpatho-Danubian People - As the Pelasgians left the Carpatho-Danubian space heading for the east, they settled down for a while in the Caucasian Mountains; then they moved on eastwards, as their population increased considerably, eventually reaching India, after a rarely smooth and peaceful migration.
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Mihai Eminescu The legend of the Evening Star Mihail Eminescu's poem "Luceafarul" is often considered the greatest acheivement of Romanian literature, and it ranks highly among world literature in the Romantic vein. Mihai Eminescu's poems are the best example of a genius' work. In order to gain an introspective look in the Romanian culture, folklore and myths, one simply has to read a single poem. You will surely love his poetry...The poem entitled " Luceafarul " - The Evening Star is his best poem, dealing with love, deception, man's condition versus the condition of the Immortals... Stop doing whatever you are doing now and start reading!!! |
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Mircea
Eliade History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity (History of Religious Ideas) Mircea Eliade has spent a lifetime
exploring the origins, meaning and mysteries of mankind's
spiritual inner being. He is the Joseph Campbell of religion
- not myth. This first volume was ably translated (from the
French) into clear and direct English - a hallmark of his
writing. It is difficult to speak knowingly of neolithic
religion because the evidence is largely circumstantial and
evolutionary. That is, we divine from our own religious
present what must have existed prior to the forming of
current ideas. |
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Constantin Brancusi
by Friedrich Teja Bach (Author), Margit Rowell (Author), Ann Temkin (Author), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Corporate Author), Centre Georges Pompidou (Corporate Author) The Romanina artist, Constantin
Brancusi brought the image of the rhomboid pillar to his
wonderful sculpture the "Endless Column." For Brancusi, the
rhomboid pillar was the embodiment of the "axis mundi", the
world's axis, the tree of life, the pillar of the sky, the
pivot of the universe. He once referred to these columns as
stairways to heaven. Peoples all over the world have used
the metaphysical pillar to link the earth and the sun, the
source of all life. - Dianne Foster |
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Eugene
Ionesco Rhinoceros (Penguin Modern Classics) Euguene Ionesco (1912-1994) was born in
Romania, but lived a great part of his life in France. He
was an important exponent of what became known as "the
Theatre of Absurd", a kind of avant garde theatre that was
born more or less in the 1950s and that somehow manages to
transmit a message through irrational speech and strange
occurrences that take place in what seem at first glance as
common situations. Other exponents of this kind of theatre
are, for example, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Harold
Pinter |
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Cioran The Trouble With Being Born
Cioran’s works encompass many other themes as
well: original sin, the tragic sense of history, the end of
civilization, the refusal of consolidation through faith,
the obsession with the absolute, life as an expression of
man's metaphysical exile, etc. He was a thinker passionate
about history; widely reading the writers that were
associated with the period of "decadent". One of these
writers was Oswald Spengler who influenced Cioran's
political philosophy in that he offered Gnostic reflections
on the destiny of man and civilization. According to Cioran:
"as long as man has kept in touch with his origins and
hasn't cut himself off from himself, he has resisted
decadence. Today, he is on his way to his own destruction
through self-objectification, impeccable production and
reproduction, excess of self-analysis and transparency, and
artificial triumph". |
