20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

880 Ana SelejanA few things about the high places 12In the novels God was born in exile, The knight of Resignation andFurther than the North, the author describes a few privileged spaces whichkeep a sacred dimension, a few high places in order to use Vintilă Horia’ssyntagm where the initiating journey takes place. To these places aspire thecharacters craving for Truth and revelation and they are being in a crisis orlimited situations: Ovid, Radu Negru, Muriano. They undertake initiatingjourneys accompanied by worthy guides, which is an opportunity for theauthor to recreate sacred geographies, where the myth is revealed.After he will have passed over the deep sufferance caused by longing,cold, disease, loneliness and lack of communication (although ‟I understandthe Getae language as well as Latin. I am even tempted to write verses in thislanguage (…). It is a language done for poetry”, noted the author of Ponticsin his second year of exile), after he had ‟his first trip in the country of theGetae” in a fishermen village accompanied by Dochia in his third year ofexile, Ovid is ready in the fourth year to leave ‟in search of the Zamolxe’spriests (…). My aim is Kogaionon, the holly mountain of the Dacians, onthe peak of which the great priest surrounded by monks leave”. His a fewdays trip – which was an opportunity for Vintilă Horia to recreate the ancientgeography of Romania – ends at Poiana Marului (Glade of the Apple) ‟butI have not seen an apple in this area. In the middle of a vast glade there wasa gray stone temple (…). Poiana Mărului (Glade of the Apple) must meanPoiana Preotului (Glade of the Priest)”. Indeed, passing through the gladeon a hardly visible path Ovid and his companions reach the cave where theprovidential and the first discussion with the Getae priest take place: onlythe first phrase remained in my memory: ‟You call Zamolxe our God butour God has no name yet – a mystery which was cleared up when he foundout that the new God Messiah was born”. Ovid’s initiating discussion, hisConfession, his Sacrament continues outside ‟in the full sunlight on thesmooth carpet” then up on the peak of the mountain (but not Kogaionon),peaks which surround Râmnicul Sărat and also during descent ‟followinganother path which took us behind the forest (…) the priest soothed mysoul. Ovid learns the total peace I wanted to cry because of the happinessthat covered me, once he entered the endless and wavy space”.12The subtitle paraphrases one of Vintilă Horia’s articles dedicated to Lucia Soreanuentitled A few things about the high places written in 1990 and published (republished?)by Marilena Rotaru in the quoted book between pages 353-357. Starting fromChartres – a high place in its most spiritual meaning – the author mentions some suchRumanian spaces enriched with spirituality: Ipoteşti, Putna, Suceviţa, Cozia, Căpriana,Curtea de Argeş etc.