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THE UNPURGED IMAGERY OF DAY

 

  • The King of the moon came looking for us
    With blood dripping from his mouth
    And a wide toothy smile, as wide as the Bosphorus,
    Extermination was on his mind.
    Rome had become more lax, more fey, more gay
    Romans escaped the hard work of fighting by night, by day.
    Romans imported mercenaries, began to turn the other cheek..
    In the Second Messenian War of Ancient Man 
    The Greeks refused to accept defeat.
    Unlike the Greeks in Anatolia two millennia later
    who struggled for a while to remain Byzantine after 1457
    but the Ottomans raped them and murdered them and laughed at them and smoked hashish.
    One Greek Abbess, a poet, refrained from vengeance. 
    Uttering such-and-such platitudes in her defence of cowardice.
    Her stoic pagan ancestors were ashamed as was her Christian God:
    ἐλθάτω ἡ βασιλεία σου, γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου, ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς:*
    She reassured her bridegroom of her purity and truth and submitted to Islām .
    Greeks trusted this example, and they and their fathers
    Became Muslim. They no longer exalted the sacred mysteries of Orthodox belief.
    They no longer respected themselves, they were worse than the Janissaries
    Christian boys from the Balkan provinces, who were forcibly converted to Islām
    Then drafted into Ottoman service. 
    This is how a civilisation crumbles. 
  • * — The Lord’s Prayer, Matthew 6:10

The music is a traditional Greek lament on the fall of Constantinople on 29 May, 1453 - a day still celebrated by the Turks under their Islamo-fascist, Daesh-supporting leader ,Erdogan

 

 

◄ For E. Scott Alighieri

St Sophia's - the Church of Holy Wisdom ►

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