Has
the 'Modern Hellenic State' gone completely mad or does it pretend to be,
in order to be respectful to the parasites of Mt. Athos (aka The Holy
Mountain)? The fact that the monks there are psychotic is even
acknowledged by them and is not something that we 'evil idolaters' have
made up. We need only recall the interview given by a former inmate
of the 'Holy Nation' to a 'Greek' Sunday newspaper, in the summer of 2000.
He had openly stated that new monks are pumped full of psychiatric medications
and that their honeyed, serene and divine gaze owes more to 'psychotropic
training' than to any contact with Jehovah. But let us unravel this
madness from the start and travel a little to the south of the 'Holy Mountain',
to the island of Lemnos and more specifically to a village called Moundros.
Once
upon a distant time, when the villagers were still under Ottoman occupation,
the Kotloumousios (?) Monastery owned land (i.e. a serfdom) in the area.
One day, the body of a slayed Turkish official was discovered in a well
on the property, resulting in a massacre of all the monks. Only one
of the celibates survived, which owed little to any assistance from the
Almighty. He ran to his parent monastery on Mt. Athos to break the
news. The appalled monks placed a curse on the inhabitants of Moundros,
which is repeated even today in the 'Good' Friday penance! (Now there’s
persistence for you). Up to now all this seems like the usual story,
flavoured with mystery and lots of bloodshed. However, the real madness
begins when the prefect of the area suddenly announces that he considers
the curse to be the main cause for the lack of economic progress in the
area!
And
what does this clever and rational man come up with? He concludes
that six parasitic celibates of the Monastery should be brought to Moundros
IN A MILITARY VESSEL. So that they can perform a ritual to undo the
damage caused by the curse, take confessions from the 'sinful' inhabitants
and convert the area back to a christian environment, more acceptable to
investors.
What
happened the next day cannot really be described here: the asphalt cloned
itself and the dirt roads were forced to fearfully retreat to the other
side of the island. The sewerage system, given the blessings that
occurred from within it, was not only sanctified but also miraculously
cleansed itself. Trees suddenly grew to their mature height; stores
served docile tourists and many other great wonders.
The
National Treasury thought that they might send the six marvelous celibates
to other parts of the country that have withered economically. Someone
even suggested that the monks be rented out to other countries, as a new
stimulus for investment. They would probably earn back the money
that the ritual cost the public coffers (2.5 Million Drachmae or 7,336.757
Euros, as the Europeans would say), because that’s how much the 'decursing'
cost the Greek taxpayer (in other words, you and me my Pagan friend).
K.
KEHAGIAS
Translated
from Greek.
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