Il Sole Italiano or The Italian Sun

Ciao a tutti amici,

First I would like to share with you a poem I wrote at the beginning of last week. This poem was inspired by a beautiful sunrise, my grammer lessons in future tense and beginning my mosaic piece of my favorite form of god... the Sun (Ra, Horus, Re, Helios, Solis, Hyperion, Wadjet, Sehkmet, Hathor, Nut, Bat, Menhit, Hathor, Surya etc... Thank you Agnès for your help correcting my Italian. I finished my mosaic tribute to the Sun today, so it was the right time to finish writing and to post this piece.

La Promessa
Prima...
Mi sono innamorata del uomo, lontano da qui
Poi...
mi sono innamorata della sua musica,
Poi...
mi sono innamorata della sua lingua,
Poi...
mi sono innamorata del suo paese
...e un nuovo mondo si è aperto davanti a me,
...e una nuova vità è cominciata per me.
Dove questo mi portera? Che sara? Non lo so!
Un piccolo bambino sa il futuro?
Soltanto la promessa ...il futuro Farò .

In English.

The Promise
First...
I fell in love with a man, far and away.
Then...
I fell in love with his music.
Then...
I fell in love with his language.
Then...
I fell in love with his country
...and a whole new world opened up for me.
...and a whole new life began for me.
Where will this lead me? What will be? I don't know!
Does a little baby know the future?
Only the promise... the future... to create.

With the sun being my favorite form of God, naturally the science of Astrology and the dance of the planets around the sun is the closest thing I have to a religeon. It affects how I live my life on a daily basis. I went 2 months without seeing the sun this past winter and I was so depressed I thought I would go crazy. I had to start going to a tanning booth for some relief.

The Sunrise.
I have not been able to sleep through the sunrise here it is such an incredible event. So I have been getting up at 5:30am. I throw open the window and the spectacle begins with the rooster crowing. My big bedroom window faces the east and it frames the event like a big movie screen only better. There are usually some clouds on the Albanian coast to catch the colors and bend the light beams. There is a little aspen and pine forest to the east of me so the birds that live there start to sing enmass. So many kinds of birds that the sunrise song is like a chorus. As the light grows and the colors change the song intensifies. There is a climax of the song as the first sunbeams break through the clouds and trees.

Like the ancient temples here, I have my altar in a position to catch the first rays of the Sun. I have many types of crystals both natural and cut placed there. The first sunbeams dance around the room. It is esctasy. wow. Then the day begins, people start coming out, moving around and everyone goes about their day.

I am not the only Sun worshipper here. It is obvious that these Southern Italians are a people of the Sun. There are tributes and artistic renditions of the sun everywhere you look. When the Sun is covered up, so are they, all bundled in their heavy coats with their somber expressions. When the Sun comes out there are happy and smiling. In the hottest part of summer over 100,000 Italians come here to worship. On a vision quest during the summer solstice many years ago, I met the people of the Sun. The ones who actually live there! They were a beautiful and very friendly race of people too, just like southern italians, only more... metallic.

Photosynthesis
When I was in college I took a Botany class and we studied the process of Photosynthesis. This is a two part process with several steps, one in the light of the sun and one in the darkness. In the institutions of higher learning there is a class on this process that lasts a whole semester. This process produces two things that are required for life on this planet. Oxygen, so we can breath and complex sugars for our foods. No matter how long the research has gone on, and no matter how qualified and experienced the scientists, there is still one step in the process that cannot be explained. This is not a myth or a legend. A scientific fact.

This unknown photosynthetic step... this mystery... is the key to all life on our planet.


Love to all and may the Sun shine on you! ciao!