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Getic substance, shall be considered as orthodox. And in fact they
are orthodox, since the songs in the church and the communication
through music are maintained at the Lower Danube by the bishop
Niceta of Remesiana, author of the anthem „Te Deum laudamus“.
It is impossible to identify how and to what extent this wisdom was
kept away from the destroying forces, since not long before the year
1900, in Moldova, people were still talking about the „Solomonars“
who, as secret contemporaries, were repeating ritual gestures, which
the peasants bashfully dared to evoke. But they were communicated
almost two millenniums and a half before by Herodotus, and the
persistency is doubtless. We find ourselves in a world of sub-moon
continuity, maybe even heretical and definitely apocryphal, but
confirmed by effects.
Hence, the great almost unseen nets of sapiential tradition and
of oral transmission start appearing in places that seem to be (and sometimes
they even are) out of time, belonging to a far away, intangible history,
lacking interest to the sequence of rational and futile surfaces.
It is the space where we are, during St. Nicodim from Tismana
(in the XIV century), during the time of Daniil Sihastrul — the counselor
of ªtefan cel Mare, before the year 1500, and during the time
of Grigorie Roºca, the bishop in the XVI century, during Paisie
Velicikovski during the times of the French Encyclopedia, during
Hasdeu, during Vasile Pârvan and during Nicolae Iorga, during the
times that are closer to us, during the historical moment that comes
before us. And all this springing from a long Homeric cycle of culture,
spoken and communicated maybe not only by words but by
a sort of pedagogical music that, before the half of the XX century,
Lucian Blaga had called „mioritic space“, a well-known place where
all forms of a spirit take shape without needing foreign recognition
in order to exist.
The efforts of this fundamental layer are impressive and the
power to revive imposes and shows a secret that has not yet been
discovered. Here, towards the end of the XIX century, Mihai Eminescu
was born as if from a stem of lily in a time when all seemed to settle
more systematically than it had ever been possible, the eponym
literary myth and maybe, if he had other fate than the one already
given, he would have been the founder hero. Once Eminescu was
born, the existential drama appeared. Some interpret this only as
a reaction, an attitude of the native who responds to the Empires
that meet above him and produce unpredicted earth crust movements,
like real earth quakes; but this conclusion, although true, it
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