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| Water |
According to the original source, in the beginning,
when there was "nothing" - when there is only the possibility or
unspecified existence of creation - that nothing has taken the form of a
"multitude of waters " swirling in space thus "in the beginning
was only water."
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| He is walking on Water |
Romanian legends tell us that only God and the Devil
were traveling on these waters and God, Dumnnezeu trampled over the Devil, Dracul
with both superior powers and the truths.
Water appears both as a source of raw material but also
as a symbol of regeneration and source of life. The presence of water is
required in the depiction of any existing family or social rites.
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| Healing Source |
Water is also seen
as blood, a purifier and transfiguring of
the earth. Its function is magical and sacred in these rites as the purifier. Ground water after
the original creation, has resulted in a kind of cosmic body in waters that
spring from the depths when the earth is "hurt" - naturally or by
human intervention they are the "blood of the earth". Therefore, the nature
of its cleansing ability resembles the pagan blood sacrifices.
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| Baptismal of Our Lord |
This water as purifier is present in the rite of
baptism or bathing the child immediately after birth and bathing the dead
before burial.
The ancient water rites continue today through the
purification of the body with thermal healing waters from various Spas and
Resorts throughout Romania.
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| Herculane Baths |
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| Hercules Statue in Herculane |
Herculane Baths,
the oldest resort in Romania and one of the oldest in the world, documented since
Roman times in 153 AD.
The hot springs have a temperature between 100 and136
degrees Fahrenheit. The resort is situated in Caras-Severin part of the Cerna
Valley National Park-Domogled.
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| Herculane Baths 1824 |
The main healing factors are the therapeutic sulfur
springs, iodine, bromine or bicarbonate, mineral and chlorosodic which
are recommended for both external and internal cures.
Calimanesti – Caciulata
Baths are situated in a beautiful landscape on the river Olt Valley,
famous for its therapeutic effects of mineral waters for a multitude
of health issues, so effective that they
were regurarly used by the French emperor Napoleon III himself.
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| Calimanesti Hotel |
Our foot steps take us quietly to a holy place nearby, Cozia Monastery, near a body of water....erected close to Calimanesti by Mircea
The Elder in 1388 and housing his tomb....one of the most valuable monuments of medieval art and architecture in Romania.
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| Cozia Monastery |
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| Cozia Monastery Fresco |
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| Mircea The Elder Founder of Cozia Monastery |
Water.... Source of Life....Rejoice!
