HIPPOCRENE SPRING AND THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

"I begin my song with the Heliconian Muses;

they have made Helicon,

the great god-haunted mountain,

their domain; their soft feet move in the dance

that ringsthe violet-dark spring

and the altar of mighty Zeus.

They bathe their lithe bodies in the water of Permessosor

of Hippocrene or of god-haunted Olmeios.

On Helicon's peak they join hands

in lovely dancesand their pounding feet awaken desire."

(Hesiod, Theogony, 1-8)

Greek Mythology, a spring of knowledge and wisdom itself, introduces the legend of Apollo and Muses, who used to walk on holy mountain Helicon (a mt in Beiotia, a region in central Greece) and bath in the Hippocrene Spring located on it.
Apollo represents Light, Harmony, Melody and Insight, and Muses Culture, Art, Poetry, Creativity and more.
Hippocrene Spring was considered to be the source of poetic inspiration and this is the myth’s origin as well.
Actually Hippocrene derives from the Greek word “hippos” (en.: horse, original Greek word: ίππος» ), which is actually the horse named Pegasus that created this spring, when aiming his hooks on the rock with such a force then a fountain appeared on it.
Exploring this Greek Myth we comprehend that inspiration is particularly a Divine gift that resides in Higher Spheres.
Inspiration is a pure energy that springs up under some uncertain circumstances, but usually performs a series of magnificent sentiments that could be described as heavenly orientated ones.
However someone might discover this source when he detaches himself from materialism and follow a spiritual way of life reconnecting with Spirit.
Hippocrene Spring could be regarded as the channel for a divine river of wisdom, a genuine and conscious Presence, thus Cosmic Consciousness .
This is why myths are always a key to the inner journey and reconnection to Cosmic Consciousness.
This sacred territory resides in a secret inner part of ourselves that we should investigate during inner journeys.
Our inner source of Light connected to all sacred places on Gaea is our path to this Divine Power .


Copyright Katerina Kostaki

Spiritual author-poetess

http://www.endless-journey.gr/en

http://endlessjourney.ning.com/

ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE

Melody of Life is an imaginary, associative travel in the poetry of Nature.
Green pasture lands, immense extents of ground, scattered with trees of each kind, splendid aquamarine rivers and crystal sources.Places and spaces over a fictitious, unknown map of Mother of Earth.
Nymphs that once upon the time wandered in the leafy forests, Muses that berhymed sweet songs, Poets that shaped heady verses for love, chanting human existence and interdependence with Divinity.
Divine entities that coexisted with the human type in a primordial communication.Isn't that Nature's real presence as well as her gifts offered to us generously?
Charm and magic of Nature are our priceless bequest in a chaotic and contradictory society.When everything crumples under the pumping of human vanity, Nature is always there with a tender caress like an unique weapon against those who make us suffer.
Nature's existence is the greatest therapy for our daily impasses.
How many times haven't we realised the maintenance and existence of our culture through the unique ways of humans in the passages of Nature?
How many times haven't we turned our look there, in those places, where distortion has not leaned yet, seeking an exit from the adversities?
Nature is omnipresent, ready to accept our love and interest......

Katerina Kostaki
Spiritual author-poetess
My article was published in "Postal World "newspaper in Mai 2006

The Melody of Soul

We go ahead to a factitious reality, full guilty, secrets and evident temptations.
The magic calls of charming Sirens are full of challenge and rich (but fake emoluments......).
People, who keenly keep their volition, are those who close their ears and march in life tested in the great path of knowledge and self development.
Those who venture to succumb to temptation, face the lustful attacks of mythological beasts in a "modern storm" form.

Time changes occurred, but data never changed.

Dangers and temptations are always skulking in the people's lives
and altering each time their mask.
The modern "Sirens" were differentiated concerning form, figure and means of attraction.
They became flexible and intelligent, hidden artfully behind secret passages.
They use each effect in order to make a convert of their candidate victims.
The greatest antithesis between those we perceive and experience
through our five senses exists in our volitional escape from the innumerable hitches of everyday routine.
An escape in the magic depth of ethereal Nature, a secret passage
in the enchanting fields of legendary Spring, we inwardly seek.
Ethereal notes travel in space and time, penetrate the fields of compatible reality and like smooth waves touch the edge of our existence.
Hymns strike the chord of our sensitive heart and compose brilliant, sublime songs,transcendental songs, songs out of time that twinkle in the dark landscape of our materialised life.
We accept ethereal music and celestial melodies like the small drops of rain on thirsty - for spirituality -lips.
Since Spiritual Development gains ground in this anhydrous environment, morbidity and vanity disappear.
Just go ahead and leave behind that is oppressive.

Each step, a progress.

We create our own "Truth" .

We make our own reality,that stems from the "Melody of our Soul" .




My article was published in " Postal World " newspaper -June 2006



Η Μελωδία της Ψυχής


Πορευόμαστε σε μια πραγματικότητα πλασματική, γεμάτη ένοχα μυστικά και έκδηλους πειρασμούς.
Τα μαγικά καλέσματα των θελκτικών σειρήνων είναι γεμάτα πρόκληση και πλούσιες (αλλά ψεύτικες απολαβές).
Όσοι διατηρούν με πείσμα την θέληση τους κλείνουν τα αυτιά τους και προχωρούν δοκιμαζόμενοι στο μεγάλο μονοπάτι της γνώσης και της αυτοβελτίωσης.
Όσοι τολμούν να υποκύψουν αντιμετωπίζουν τις λάγνες επιθέσεις των μυθολογικών τεράτων με την μορφή της σύγχρονης καταιγίδας.
Οι εποχές αλλάζουν , αλλά τα δεδομένα παραμένουν τα ίδια.
Πάντα στην ζωή του ανθρώπου παραμόνευαν οι ίδιοι κίνδυνοι και οι πειρασμοί αλλάζοντας κάθε φορά το προσωπείο τους.
Οι σύγχρονες " Σειρήνες " διαφοροποιήθηκαν ως προς την μορφή, το σχήμα ακόμη και τα μέσα πρόσκλησης.
Έγιναν ευέλικτες και έξυπνες, κρυμμένες έντεχνα πίσω από μυστικά περάσματα.
Χρησιμοποιούν κάθε τέχνασμα για να προσηλυτίσουν τα υποψήφια θύματα τους.
Η μεγάλη αντίθεση ανάμεσα σε όσα ζούμε , αφουγκραζόμαστε, βλέπουμε αντιλαμβανόμαστε με τις πέντε αισθήσεις μας έρχεται μέσα από την θεληματική απόδραση μας από τους αμέτρητους σκοπέλους της καθημερινότητας.
Μια απόδραση στα μαγικά βάθη της αιθέριας Φύσης, ένα μυστικό πέρασμα στα μαγευτικά πεδία της μυθικής Άνοιξης, που όλοι ενδόμυχα αναζητάμε.
Αιθέριες νότες ταξιδεύουν στον χώρο και στον χρόνο.
Διαπερνούν τα πεδία της συμβατής πραγματικότητας και φτάνουν σαν απαλά κύματα στις παρυφές της ύπαρξης μας.
Ύμνοι αγγίζουν τις ευαίσθητες χορδές της καρδιάς μας και συνθέτουν υπέροχα τραγούδια ανώτερης κλίμακας.
Τραγούδια υπερβατικά, χρονοτράγουδα που λαμπυρίζουν στο σκοτεινό τοπίο της πλαστικοποιημένης ζωής μας.
Δεχόμαστε την αιθερική μουσική, τις ουράνιες μελωδίες σαν τις μικρές σταγόνες βροχής πάνω στα διψασμένα από πνευματικότητα- χείλη μας.
Μέσα στο άνυδρο από ερεθίσματα περιβάλλον, η νοσηρότητα και η ματαιοδοξία εξαφανίζονται, όσο η πνευματική ανάπτυξη κερδίζει έδαφος.

Ένα βήμα μπροστά και αφήνουμε πίσω μας ότι μας βαραίνει.

Κάθε βήμα, μια πρόοδος.

Δημιουργούμε την δική μας « Αλήθεια ».

Φτιάχνουμε την δική μας πραγματικότητα, που πηγάζει αποκλειστικά και μόνο μέσα από την « Μελωδία της Ψυχής μας ».


Άρθρο μου που δημοσιεύτηκε στην εφημερίδα "Ταχυδρομικός Κόσμος " -Ιούνιος 2006