“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
~Mother Teresa
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The eternal question! Where everything begins and how we people find the need to have a starting point and explanation about the created legends, where did they come from? The first mythical images of the universe are known from the poetic pieces by Homer and Hesiod, where it’s clearly said that nothing begins from nothingness. According to Greek mythology everything began from Chaos- moving, shapeless and blurry mass from which the cosmos and the gods originated.
After Chaos, there came Gaia / Earth/ – the great mother of all, the foundation of the immortals, a flat surface with lands and waters. Gaia brought forth Uranus/ Sky/ – the starry sky over her, Ourea/ The Mountains/ and the fruitless deep of the Sea- Thalassa/ Pontus/. Of Chaos were born Erebus/ Darkness/ and Nyx/ Night/, of Nyx came forth Aether / Brightness/ and Hemera/ Day/, Hypnos/ Sleep/ and Thanatos/ Death/. And this is how everything started. For good or for bad the world was created from a formless material, day by day expanding its level of perfection and it’s still here …
According to Flavor Internationale, everything starts here, with Tom’s idea to bring together borders and cultures in one place, to make them part of a photograph album and give the audience the key to knowledge and entertainment. And it’s up to us, the contributing writers to form the days and the nights of Flavor Internationale, to define what brightness and darkness mean, where love and respect come from and what is the essence of a stranger’s soul.
I am Blaga and I plan on sharing the culture of the country I live in – Greece. Welcome to Flavor Internationale, I hope to see many more posts and different countries participating in this lovely project! Wishing everyone peaceful and beautiful weekend!
Above image “Chaos and Gaia” – courtesy of faculty.trinityvalleyschool.org
© 2011 Broken Sparkles
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