“It is like building a
cyclopean wall. Large stones are not always at the base – just like major attractions
are not what you build upon when meeting a person.”
… Cyclopean walls. In
Greece and Italy I have walked along these walls. They are said to be built by
Titans. It is from ancient Mycenae that comes the belief that Cyclopes built
the walls of large boulders. The Titans were inspired by the Colossus of Rhodes
named after the sun god Helios.
“It does not matter who
built the walls. There is a colossus in all of us. There is a dormant Titan
that makes us curious about the what
and why we do things. Small and
large.”
… Perched in the Alps, Trento surrounds you with a medieval tempo. And with megalithic walls, and pristine lakes. It is still a little bit Austrian, but the joie de vivre is all Italian.
“We build cathedrals
like we build stony walls. It is sometimes for protection, a glorious shield. Often,
we protect ourselves from ourselves hoping to keep the titan in us asleep.
Moving large megalith or boulders across vast spaces is easy compared to moving
a feeling to the open. Suddenly a stone becomes a menhir, for all to see”
… It was all about stones and walls that
morning. It was all about metaphors.
“We place stones on graves to remember; we write on boulders a name for others to wonder about.”
“And we put a stone
upon our hearts to forget. Not the person who left and left us alone, but the
pain of continuing. Love is like a cyclopean wall – large and small stones
should co-exist to keep that wall standing. But love should exist without using
mortar -- the stones should fit perfectly.”
… And she looked at
Lago Di Caldonazzo.
“Ma, l’aqua cheta la butta giú I ponti” – our best bridges can be destroyed by calm
waters.
PS/ The photo of the
cathedral is of the Armenian cathedral of Gregory
The Illuminator, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has an angle of view I have
not seen in other photos of the cathedral since I took it from my car.
April 23, 2023
© Vahé A. Kazandjian,
2023
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