In his study of Elbetitsa, Dr.TachoTanev provides a description of the celestial observations and structures
in the Old Bulgarian Calendar and thus also of the Old Bulgarian image of Time.
It is based on the idea of interacting cyclic but unevenly ordered nonlinear
structures. For example, the heavenly equator passes through 28 5th and 6th
magnitude stars - as two by two are opposite, but lying at different distances
from each other. Thus, adjacent groups of two or three stars form and their
interactions form the type and sequence of one uneven course of events and time. Curiously, these star pairs are
relatively small stars - like the Sun - and most of them are not visible to the
naked eye.
Our current vision and the one in
Europe is similar to the one in classical physics and considers a linear, progressive time course. You can see
that the Old Bulgarian ideas are closer as a vision to modern physics and maximum
away from Balkantourist ethnography of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Some
years ago I read an exciting research on the topic by Tsvetan Todorov. It was a
true revelation.
Now imagine that you are
attempting to express through symbolic geometry structure two theories – the big bang theory where from the
point of singularity a Universe arises and the other is the process where a
cell, by fusing genetic information, generates life rising to a complete awareness of the World.
Now imagine that you have the
hypothesis that these two processes form an
interaction with a clearly constructed structure which internally expresses
and IS the origin of life through Consciousness
and externally - the origin of the Universe. Imagine that while building with a
line and a pergolet, you actually manage BOTH
processes simultaneously ... Every action you take REPRESENTS the processes,
which are one process .... The ritual is based on that. The combined idea of
this common and complete theory about Consciousness inside and outside is
Great Yantra. In the human body, it is associated with Crown chakra.
Please forgive me that things look so crazy, but that's because of our harsh attitude towards the cultures preceding us. We are the pinnacle of development. Right? I have been subscribed to the scientific journals of the US and the USSR. In the Russian “Science and Life” there was an article by a team at the Moscow University – Mathematics Institute, in which they published their three-year research on the geomorphic structure of Great Yantra and were struck by the fact of their failure. Moreover, they provided some kind of construction suitable for practical ritual needs, but they said in a pure-hearted way that it was mathematically incorrect. And it is not possible - the paradigm in Yantra to be different. "We have never suspected" concluded the article, "that in the old days there had been such profound and complex constructions surpassing the possibilities of modern science."
Please forgive me that things look so crazy, but that's because of our harsh attitude towards the cultures preceding us. We are the pinnacle of development. Right? I have been subscribed to the scientific journals of the US and the USSR. In the Russian “Science and Life” there was an article by a team at the Moscow University – Mathematics Institute, in which they published their three-year research on the geomorphic structure of Great Yantra and were struck by the fact of their failure. Moreover, they provided some kind of construction suitable for practical ritual needs, but they said in a pure-hearted way that it was mathematically incorrect. And it is not possible - the paradigm in Yantra to be different. "We have never suspected" concluded the article, "that in the old days there had been such profound and complex constructions surpassing the possibilities of modern science."
At that time, I was exploring the
geometric structures of our patterns and I rose to the bait. That's it. After
several years of twenty-four-hour of drawing, I made the pyramid of air. The pyramid of air is my reading of the
vertical Axis.
Solstice. Power. Consciousness.
These things should be done, not to
be talked about. There is a requirement in the Erminii the icon-painter to be a
righteous man who, before he starts drawing, must keep the fast for one year. I
kept the fast for three years – from 1986 to1989. I restored the lost practices
over the construction of Great Yantra. Seized by those moods and attitudes, I
built the almost ethereal Pyramid of Air.
On June 21st, 1989, at sunrise, in the meadow next to Hristo Botev Hall, Sofia, I had outlined with a white mosaic a large diameter circle in the grass. It was open from the point where the Sun would enter the center. I had entered a square in the circle - I stuck 4 pins, I tied to each of them a thin white rope. The ropes assembled and connected to the central one, where I had tied them to a meteorological balloon. Their length was such that by lifting the balloon they would stretch and outline the four edges of the Pyramid. Placed on the ground - from the top of the square - a cross was drawn to the center. They were longer than the projection - of course, and that's why I had rotated them around the spike in a spiral that was unwinding when the rope was lifted from the center. The Central Rope was the World Axis.
When the Sun began to appear, I
started filling the balloon with Helium - Helios. It went up and those who came
for the ritual claim to have seen the walls of the pyramid as liquid glass. I
was in the center and looking up. I have not seen them. I have felt something
else. Everyone - his own sensation. It was a group meditative act ... One of
the viewers - a very old scholar of I Ching (who later taught this discipline at
the New Bulgarian University), shared that he had observed in the sky the movements and structures that I performed on earth.
In contemporary art, traditional
and avant-garde visions are relatives, expanding the scope of perceptions and
thus the world. А story from the pre-Ottoman period is well known in our spiritual
culture, when in the cell of the hesychast Theodosii of Tarnovо someone entered unpredictably and untimely. He saw the hesichast
raised above the floor in a prayer posture .... maybe like that?
