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THE HISTORICAL NOVELS OF KONSTANTINA RITSOU:
Konstantina Ritsou-Zavolia (ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΑ ΡΙΤΣΟΥ) is a contemporary Greek author whose historical novels demonstrate the thread of Hellenismos throughout the ages.
From the back cover:
“Come,” said Andrew. “Now you shall see how nothing that we fought for has been lost. And the way we are fighting.”
They were once more in the terrifying city of London. Night. Near London Bridge. And there Wallace saw, impaled on a stake, his own head, deformed from the tar. “God, no!” Wallace said. “You brought me to see this?”
“No,” said Andrew. “I brought you for the promise.”
“What promise?”
“You know. You were in the courtroom. I saw you giving the road of struggle to Bruce. And he agreed.”
“But Andy, we didn’t speak.”
“Words weren’t necessary.”
“It was just a sign. I don’t know if he will keep it. He has arrangements with the tyrant.”
“On this agreement with you Bruce has placed a seal which he will not break. Ie, Kie. Your blood was the rain. And will bear fruit.”
“How do you know?”
“Look!”
In the shadows, at the foot of the bridge, a man was standing. He seemed to be shivering violently. But as they came close to him, they saw that rather than shivering he was shaking with silent sobs.
Torn with sobs there at the bridge in darkness of the London night.
And the man was looking up, his eyes fixed upon the bridge.
He was Robert the Bruce.
Wallace drew closer. He touched him gently on the shoulder like a cool breeze and spoke in a voice inaudible to mortal ears. But Robert sensed within him that his conscience spoke to his soul.
“Don’t fear the dark. As the morning star heralds the light, Freedom will bring dawn out of the night.”
Robert’s sobs ceased.
Within him resolution battled dread.
He raised his eyes and looked upon the head.
Copyright Konstantina Ritsou-Zavolia
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THE SONGS OF THE BOY AND THE WELL OF MEMORY
Mrs. Ritsou composed many poems for the book. Late in 2010 she asked James Van Kollenburg, a contemporary composer, to set some of these poems to music. Soon these songs will be available as MP3 files. At the present moment the music for these songs is available as a PDF file. This file contains piano/vocal arrangements for the songs along with chord symbols:
To download the sheet-music: The songs from THE BOY AND THE WELL OF MEMORY
MP3 files of the songs: As recordings of the individual songs become available, they will appear below:
Highly recommended.
From the back cover:
Personalities inscribed in history, but also the struggle of the everyday persons that supported their course. Great figures in the most heroic and most human moments of their life, moments sweet and joyful, heart-breaking and terrible. Tremendous historical times seen through the eyes of a human soul with a lion's strength, which awakens by drinking from the spring of Memory. And with the force of this ancient mystic awakening, the soul walks through different time periods, always as a contemporary citizen, an eternally-fighting human being in the spinning maelstroms of history.
THE LION SOULS available in English:
ΟΙ ΚΗΡΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΕΟΝΤΩΝ available in Greek:
ANCIENT TEXTS AND HYMNS for study and worship, visit this page:
Texts for Study and Worship in Hellenismos, the Ancient Greek Polytheistic Tradition
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MOVIES THAT BEAR THE SPIRIT OF HELLENISMOS, movies about the ancient world, various other historic periods, as well as movies about contemporary subjects, all that exemplify the best of our philosophy:
The Twelve Words of the Gypsy by the great Greek poet Kostis Palamas (1859-1943). Palamas was one of the greatest poets of his age and a national treasure of the Greek people. He was the composer of the lyrics to the Olympic Hymn (music by Spyridon Samaras) which was performed at the opening of the 1896 Olympic games at Athens, the first games of the modern era. While this great work was being performed, eagles were seen hovering over the stadium, something which can be seen in pictures. The Twelve Words of the Gypsy (also called The Twelve Lays of the Gypsy) is a sprawling, mighty work. The link below gives yet more links to YouTubes in both Greek and English of this poem, magnificently read by Hari Politopoulos: http://www.palamas12.net/
First volume of the Olympian series in which discusses the gods of Hellas and the application of the historical and philosophical to the modern worship practices. This first volume deals with the worship of the god Apollon through his various epithets, his festivals, myths, and the associations of his natural domain.
About the author:
Lykeia serves Apollon and is devoted to Artemis. She fell in love with the gods at the age of twelve and started actively worshiping them when she was fourteen years old. The highlight of her spiritual life was a trip to Hellas in 2008 where she had the oppertunity to visit Delphi and Olympia among many other wonderful sites. Lykeia has a BA in history with a minor in Literature and directs most of her devotional activity to writing (particularly of sacred poetry) and painting. She current resides with her family and cats in North Carolina.
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PLEASE NOTE: Throughout the pages of this website, you will find fascinating stories about our Gods. These narratives are known as mythology, the traditional stories of the Gods and Heroes. While these tales are great mystical vehicles containing transcendent truth, they are symbolic and should not be taken literally. A literal reading will frequently yield an erroneous result. The meaning of the myths is concealed in code. To understand them requires a key. For instance, when a God kills someone, this usually means a transformation of the soul to a higher level. Similarly, sexual union with a God is a transformation.
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