The Names of the Goddess

Posted on Ιουλίου 3, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Working with my friends on the mystery of the goddess of Nas Ikaria

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In the Name of the Goddess

Posted on Ιουλίου 3, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

About the goddess in Nas Ikaria

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Legends about Ikaria : THE MYTH OF ICARUS

Posted on Ιουλίου 2, 2009. Filed under: exploring, flying, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Is Ikaria the island where Icarus fell?

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ΤΑ ΠΑΛΙΑ ΚΑΡΑΒΙΑ (…)

Posted on Ιουνίου 30, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

ΤΑ ΠΑΛΙΑ ΚΑΡΑΒΙΑ

Ειδα τα παλια καραβια να περνουν
αρμενιζοντας κοιμισμενα σαν κυκνοι,

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Picture and Poem to match (October 08, 2006)

Posted on Ιουνίου 30, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

“Ειδα τα παλια καραβια να περνουν
αρμενιζοντας κοιμισμενα σαν κυκνοι…”

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It’s getting better all the time…

Posted on Ιουνίου 30, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, festivals, flying, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

a jar of Ikarian wildberry jam while looking at sweet photos

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IF *I am tourist promoter*, so …

Posted on Ιουνίου 28, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, flying, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

So now that *I am tourist promoter*…
let me get busy ! The island’s economy is at stake (Ω Θεέ μου !)
SO…
Ikaria is mostly known for and associated with the myth of Icarus and to some extent for its medicinal (just *warm* if you like) springs most of them located in the village of Therma very [...]

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“Leni in Ikaria with Galanthi”

Posted on Ιουνίου 25, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Τι είναι τούτο; Η ιστορία.
Τι είναι τ’ άλλο; Είν’ η φύση.
Διάλεξε το δεύτερο που είναι το πρώτο.
(Νίκος Καρούζος)
What’s that? History.
What’s that other? It’s nature.
Choose the second which is the first.
(Nikos Karouzos)
Tags: eleni, galanthi, ιστορία, poetry, history, my-photo, iam, ελένη, γάλανθοι, καρούζος, karouzos | Edit Tags Saturday March 18, 2006 – 12:26pm (PST) Edit | [...]

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lilies in wasted-sand 9

Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, photography, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

This is exactly the spot where the first real tourists set a tent in Ikaria a looong ago in the mid-70s. They were young Germans, most of them students, most of them from Frankfurt, and they read the philosophy of Marcuse. (according to old local chronicles)
It is believed that in spite of the Weirdo cult, there [...]

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Eleni in Ikaria with flowers, (Feb 03, 2006)

Posted on Ιουνίου 22, 2009. Filed under: choses vécues, exploring, hiking, stories | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

(correct) Θαλασσόκρινος

So it wasn’t the Lady but the Lord with the Lilies.
Nana “la fauve”, my living library walking (on a perfect pair of legs btw) sent me this picture. Noone knows who he was, so they call him conventionaly “the King-Priest with the Lilies”. This is from the palace of Knossos in Crete. Professeur [...]

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