Saturday, April 26th, 2008 ~ Delphi, Greece
(this is the continuation of a travel journal that began with the April 18th entry further below)
Like a dream…
I woke up this morning to the sounds of the streets of Giza and the most amazing view of the Sphinx and Pyramids, and will sleep tonight in sight of the most amazing valley from Delphi…surrounded by towering green mountains covered in red and yellow spring flowers, leading all the way to the Corinthian Gulf in the distance…
I am in the land of Oracles, and tomorrow I will wake up and walk down the road to the place where so many sat and spoke the words that would change the world, over and over again, through a veil of gases and smoke. Already the mountains are speaking…the springs and the stones have never lost the knowing.
We had such a wonderful time in Cairo with our dear friend Abdullah, and since we stayed at an apartment belonging to a family we know, we really got to feel the life of Giza (the part of Cairo at the edge of the Sahara where the pyramids are) and we had the most incredible view…the building is the closest to the Sphinx and our window looked directly out to its face, with the three pyramids spread out behind it.
Driving to Giza after we flew in to Cairo the pyramids appeared on the horizon and I stopped breathing for a moment. They have such an effect on me that they create an involuntary response in my body. They just dwarf all the development around them. They are literally like an apparition from the past, but solid.
By this morning we were dying for fresh food and clean air, and we got it, and the cost of leaving one of the most magnificent places on earth. However that was also buffered considerably by the fact that we were on our way to an equally magical place. I could hardly believe we were headed for Delphi…
Climbing the mountains to come here is like ascending to the heavens…like entering the celestial realms. You begin to feel it about thirty minutes away. Something shifts noticeably. It is this quality of energy, this pristine presence that made it so perfect for the Oracles to meet, and to give prophecy.
For me it is a return to a sacred vessel. A place that held the Oracles so perfectly that they could give themselves completely to the art of their souls…to remembering.
We checked-in to our hotel and went to a restaurant to eat our first meal of the day aside from bread and cheese, and had the most unbelievable greek salad. I have never tasted anything like it. Now we have strolled the streets in the chilly evening (weather so much like what we are used to at home) and enjoyed a greek coffee. Life is very, very good.
It only took two hours to fly from Cairo to Athens. It seems unreal, and yet unsurprising as well. I have come from the land where Isis reigns, to the place where Gaia speaks…and in both cases her sweet voice is just the same. And this, is just the beginning…
Love, Jennifer
