Thread: "The Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl, Russia" by Anastasia Usvayskaya. The cathedral was built by the Grand Duke Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152.
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@MagicalEurope The transfiguration of Jesus is one of the "miracles" of Christianity and reffers to the moment when Christ's "true nature" was revealed to his disciples. The event happen on top of Mt Tabor and was witnessed by Peter, James and John. It was described in gospels like this:
@MagicalEurope This is an Icon from The Transfiguration Cathedral in Pereslavl, depicting the moment when "Christ's true nature shone out of him like the sun"...
@MagicalEurope The Feast of Transfiguration has been celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox church since at least the 6th century, It is celebrated on the 6th of August. Why on this date?
@MagicalEurope The beginning of August marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. This change is marked by the Day of St Elijah the Thunderer. He brings the first autumn rains and cooling of the northern hemisphere. Which is why Serbs say that "From St Elijah, sun becomes ever dearer"
@MagicalEurope This is the time of the year when a major shift in the balance of power in the Sun-Earth system takes place. The power and influence of the sun (Yang) is at its maximum and starts to decrease. The power and influence of earth (Yin) is at its minimum and starts to increase...
@MagicalEurope I talked about this in detail in this post oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2018/02/yin-an…
So there is definite change in nature in the Northern Hemisphere that starts at the beginning of August...Maybe this is the reason why it is then that we celebrate the feast of Transfiguration?
So there is definite change in nature in the Northern Hemisphere that starts at the beginning of August...Maybe this is the reason why it is then that we celebrate the feast of Transfiguration?
@MagicalEurope By the way, it turns out that the arrival of the St Elijah's thundering chariots corresponds with a natural phenomenon which was only discovered very recently: the yearly maximum of the bouncing of the solar winds off the tops of the clouds...
@MagicalEurope I talked about this in: oldeuropeanculture.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-th…
Interestingly, Elijah, who is in Serbian folklore both Perun (Thunder god) and Veles (Sun god), basically old Sky God, Dabog, is present at Jesus's transfiguration...
Interestingly, Elijah, who is in Serbian folklore both Perun (Thunder god) and Veles (Sun god), basically old Sky God, Dabog, is present at Jesus's transfiguration...
@MagicalEurope In Serbia people believed that the Feast of Transfiguration is "Dan kada se preobražava i voda i gora" (The day when both water and forest are "changing")...
@MagicalEurope The usual explanation for this belief is that it comes from the fact that at the beginning of August leaves on trees start getting yellow and water in rivers and lakes starts getting cooler...
@MagicalEurope But there is another interesting scientific discovery which shows that the beginning of August is the time when water changes in another, less obvious way...
@MagicalEurope According to the Serbian folk calendar, the year only had two seasons. White, Warm part, between St George's Day (start of May) and St Mitar's day (start of October). And Dark, Cold part, between St Mitar's day (start of November) and St George's day (start of May).
@MagicalEurope The Feast of Transfiguration which is celebrated at the beginning of August, falls right in the middle of the old Serbian White, Warm half of the year (today end of summer beginning of autumn)...
@MagicalEurope Recent study by the Belgrade school of mereorology has shown that the rainwater in Serbia is getting more acidic between St George's day and The Feast of Transfiguration (summer) and is getting less acidic from The Feast of Transfiguration to St Mitar's day...
@MagicalEurope The water indeed "changes", gets "transfigured" around the beginning of August.
I wanted to check if this was just a local fluke. What I found is that this annual fluctuation of the rainwater ph value has been observed in other parts of Europe too...
I wanted to check if this was just a local fluke. What I found is that this annual fluctuation of the rainwater ph value has been observed in other parts of Europe too...
@MagicalEurope Diagram showing annual fluctuation of rainwater acidity from Portugal. From:
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@MagicalEurope Diagram showing annual fluctuation of rainwater acidity from France. From: researchgate.net/publication/45…
@MagicalEurope If anyone has any links to similar studies from around Europe, please post them here.
Anyway, I think that this is seriously cool stuff...
Another coincidence...
Anyway, I think that this is seriously cool stuff...
Another coincidence...
