Bulgarian - Who are we ? Where do we come from ? Part 4

Bulgarian - "Who are we?", "Where do we come from?", "What cultural and historical traditions do we have?".
Isihia is the sound tangle of pure folklore motifs of the Bulgarian song and melody, the Hesychast sound of the Christian singing, the mystery of the Balkan spirit and the romance of national drama in Bulgarian history.
Isihia is the musical tale of the times of the most genuine belief in the history of the Bulgarian spiritual life -- Hesychasm.
Isihia is the musical glance back to the history of the Bulgarians.
The very end of the 20-th century was a time of severe trial for the Bulgarian people and the Balkan peoples as a whole, whose belonging to the European Christian civilization both in geographical and cultural, as well as in historical aspect is certainly doubtless. Most threatening to the Bulgarian nation today are not the political failures, the economic instability, not even the demographic collapse, but the weakness and impersonality of spirit. In such times, each nation turns to the stronghold of its traditions and history where its hidden strength lies. It is to reach the roots of that strength and to draw invigorating spirit from the shell of the Bulgarian identity that Isihia was born for, Isihia -- the bridge from the past to the present. The ancient spirit of the Bulgarian land, whose roots have been marked by the cultures of Thraceans, Romans, Slavs, Proto-Bulgarians, Byzantines and Ottoman Turks -- a spirit combining the pagan and Christian traditions is the strength giving inspiration and creating the musical aesthetics of Isihia.

The name "Isihia" epitomizes the search for the conceptual link making a reference to the Hesychast religious movement that occurred in the last years of the Byzantine existence and the Second Bulgarian Kingdom. The Hesychasts of those times believed that everything mortal was doomed to death but what had to be saved and what had to survive were the spirit and the Orthodox faith. On the eve of the Ottoman occupation of the Balkan Peninsula, the Hesychast movement of the 14th century returned to the pure faith of the first Christians as a reaction to safeguard the Balkan Orthodox identity. In the very beginning of the 21st century, Isihia is going back to the Middle-Age Hesychast concept bearing the initial Christian ideas, which are so necessary today with their true faith, intact morale and genuine dedication of spirit. To the Middle-Age Christian person the word "Isihia" referred to the essence of Hesychast ideas and its literal meaning was silence, contemplation, peace -- the spiritual practice to accomplish the mystic union with God
The ancient Thracian city of Perperikon is located in the Eastern Rhodopes, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria, on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place. The village of Gorna Krepost ("Upper Castle") is located at the foot of the hill and the gold-bearing Perpereshka River flows near it. Perperikon is the largest megalith ensemble in the Balkans.
According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods save the sun, whom he called Apollo. One early morning he went to the Oracle of Dionysus (there are ongoing discussions whether this is Perperikon or Mount Pangaion) to salute his god at dawn, but was torn to death by Thracian Maenads for not honoring his previous patron, Dionysus.
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[diorio83]

bulgad kaji mi molqte koq e pesnata na kraja kogato pee SLUNCE ZAJDE,MRAK NA POLE.mercy

[bulgad]

za sazelenie ne znam ...i az iskah da razberano uvi

[bulgad]

The Bulgars (also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians) were a seminomadic people, originally from Central Asia, who from the AD 2nd century inhabited the steppe north of Caucasus and the banks of river Itil (now Volga).(probably). At present Bulgarians is mix - Bulgar, Slav , Celtic, Thracians and more...

[Machtwille]

bulgad, The Bulgars are Aryan people who came from Persia, but it's native land are the BALKANS, Bulgars and "Thracs" are one and the same people, about Slavs - there haven't been Slavs at out lands.

[novozagorec]

The movie does,not say an important thing.Beside old religion bulgars were prosecuted for theyre language.They were FORCED together with new religion to obey slav language.This is very important part of our history!

[123peda123]

@Machtwille

the part with the thracians and slavs is not true, since "Thracian" is just another name for the slavic peoples.

[123peda123]

Ancient Bulgarians are an iranic (Aryan) tribe, which settled in the volga region, there they already mixed up with east slavonic peoples (80% Iranic 20% slavic), then they moved to the balkans where they mixed up with south slavonic peoples although, at this time the slavonic people were speaking one common language.

[pillsburydoughboy47]

shut the fuck up; Belisarius kicked your ass, and you were only able to win against the Byzantines only when he died!

[spa05akw]

I think you need to read Gantcho Tsenovs book and other sources:

1. Joan Malala (Byzantine source) wrote in the VI century about the Troyan war: And Achilles departed with the Artidies, [] army of 3000 people, who were called Mirmidons at this time, and now are called Bulgarians.

(That is Ancient and Local Bulgarians who migrated from Thrace 2000 BC and conquered Caucasus and Asia. A branch of them came back to Balkan)

[diorio83]

a kude pise na tazi ploca tova.I ako e vqrno zasto navsiakude v istoriata dori i sega ne e popraveno.nama logika v tova koeto pises.

[ZiGenov]

A NEJA PLO4A IMA KARTA NA BALKANS - I PISHE 'in stone" - TRAKIJA, MIZIA, MAKEDONIJA - kato oblasti - A NA VSI4KOTO OTGORE S GOLEMI !!! BUKVI E UDARENO IN STONE - "BULGARI" !!!

S obratno "A" lato sega6nata "Italianska" butic - firma sa bijuta, parfumi etc., "Bulgari" !!!

TA ZAPOMNI TOVA OT MEN - STARITE TRAKI I NIE BALGARITE - SME EDNO I SA6TO NESTO - BALGARI - PAN-Bulgaria etc., etc. !!! Sega si spomni za Spartak, Orfei i t.n.

[ZiGenov]

Ta TEZI FAKTI SAM GI VIDJAL v British Museum of History in London - GOLIAMA KAMENNA PLO4A ot RIMSKO VREME - II /2-ri VEK - 261 -va godina ili ne6to takova. Tazi plo4a - KAMAK e napravena NE ot balgarite , a ot RIMLJANITE, TEHNI ISTORICI, NE BALGARSKI, taka 4e nikoi ne moje da ja ospori 4e nie BALGARITE si izmisljame ili sme ja izfabrikuvali ? i postavili v British Museum of History ? RIGHT ?!

[ZiGenov]

Ne vjarva6 - SIGURNO ! Tozi pak idiot kakvi gluposti prikazva ? - 6te se zapita6s? Otkade gi znae ili si gi izmislja ?

ZNAE6 LI OTKADE ?

AZ SAM BALGARIN SA6TO. RODEN SAM NA PAPA NA SOFIA - Patriarh Eftimii i Vito6a do NDK, no ot 18 godini sam vav USA. Tova ne mi pre4i da se 4USTVUVAM po_BALGARIN otkolkoto kogato bjah v Balgaria.

[ZiGenov]

MNOGO PROSTO ! Starite Balgari - PI6I GI VE4E PAN-BALGARI /PAN-BULGARIANS( ili The Bulgars (also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians - Imperial Russian, later Komunist interpretation of Bulgarian origin ) sa ( ARE the TRACIANS and ILIRS ) => starite TRAKIICI !!!

NIE, BALGARITE SME TRAKIICI, MIZIICI, MAKEDONCI, DAKI - VSE EDNO PLEME , VZETI ZAEDNO !!!

Zapomni TOVA i NE POVTARJAI pove4e glupostite na "NAJ - NOVATA NI IZMISLENA " istoria.