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which still covers a nucleus of European features (core that is revealed,
together with the Renaissance driven by the scholars who
ran away from Constantinople, and which shall be shaped) there is
a vague but very much alive layer, a certain mysterious „something“
that irradiates and commands, very often without a firm explanation,
phenomena that seem non-canonic and maybe even incomparable.
Our people is actually very ancient, from very distant ancient
times, so ancient that many times we cannot even identify our roots
that can be distinguished with difficulty or sometimes we are not
even able to see them, because of the fact that, we may not realize
in that instant, our sight is too impatiently hurried or too cloudy.
It all begins with a mystery. Around 3500 B.C., to the east
of the Carpathian Mountains, or maybe farther, a strange people
decided to establish there, leaving behind a doubtful trace, a people
that would express a culture of a miraculous coherence. Nothing
of their unusual thinking remained in writing, but we can almost
fully understand them by watching the establishment of this people.
It was a musical, magical people, organized in some sort of ritual
community, believing in the ever-lasting of the soul, sensing by a ritual
rhythm and by tenses flowing from one another, winding beyond
moment towards an infinity that comes back, repeats itself and recomposes
itself, without losing the enigmatic substance during the
flames. We find ourselves in the space of the horal phenomenon,
in an indescribable world and which, in the absence of other identity,
we could only name it as Cucuteni. After several centuries that
can no longer be counted, these people of Cucuteni seem to disappear
out of history as if they raised in the air and they left behind,
in the layers of archeological digging, only a deep trace of fire and
disaster, and just above it, you can see a line of black dark ceramics
belonging to the rough and utilitarian substitutes. There are
some who believe that one could recognize in the remains of the
ceramic pots that were found in the west part China during the exact
times when the people of Cucuteni seemed to have raised to heaven,
their musical line eager for infinity and also the communion of
the „hora“ that had been discovered in the Carpathian Mountains.
But no matter if this is only pure fortuity, illusion or migration, the
episode that seems to become a kind of symbol and that even
becomes a history stereotype is still obvious. And that is because
of the fact that, the same as during those times, every time a superior
civilization is established or tries to set up and defines itself, a
fracture comes along, a bad incident, the bad luck and the denial
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