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buahahaahahah :)) tui kak go sachini bre ;)) pri tova na English.. wow :)
btw.. nqkoi shte interpretirat istoriqta che na Iliya kiliqta e padala.. i sa iskali da vgradqt nqkoq moma v neq (vsichki znaem kakvo znachi tui)... Irina bila mnoo ubava, no i zagrijena za kiliqta na Iliya (ochevidno glupavo momiche.. ruso sas sini ochi.. kvo da vi govorq.. ).. i Iliya ne iskal da q jertva ... predpohitam da se trudi no da ne vgrajda Iliya v stenite... i tn.. i tn..
Simeon Vlahov wrote: | Gradil Iliya Kiliya/Iliya was building a cell | | A Bulgarian folk-song | | with a translation in English, and with literary analysis, by Ivan Vassilev | | | Gradil Iliya kiliya (2) | gradil Iliya kiliya, oh aman, aman | na pqtya, na krqstopqtya | | | Iliya was building a cell (2) | Iliya was building a cell, [hot mama], | on the road, on the crossroad. | | | Otdolu ide Irina (2) | otdolu ide Irina, oh aman, aman | i na Iliya govori: | | |>From below is coming Irina (2) | from below is coming Irina, [hot mama], | and she says to Iliya: | | | "Vzemi me, bacho Iliya, (2) | vzemi me bacho Iliya, oh aman, aman | vqv tvoyta tyasna kiliya!" | | | "Take me, brother Iliya (2) | take me, brother Iliya, [hot papa] | into your narrow cell!" | | | "Ne moga mome Irino, (2) | ne moga mome Irino, oh aman, aman | che ti sa rusi kosite | che ti sa rusi kosite, oh aman, aman | i ti sa sini ochite" | | | "I can't, Irina - babe (2) | I can't, Irina - babe [hot mama] | 'cause your hair is blond | 'cause your hair is blond [hot mama] | and your eyes are blue" | | | "Shte si pritvorya ochite (2) | shte si pritvorya ochite, oh aman, aman | i pochernya kosite." | | | "I'm gonna close my eyes (2) | I'm gonna close my eyes, [hot papa] | and I'll dye my hair black." | | | Now, let us examine what the song means and what the bards of the Bulgarian | nation are trying to tell us: | | [A Literary Analysis] | | Iliya, ladies and gentlemen, is a young, pious fellow, (not unlike many of us | in here) minding his own business and building himself a cell, so he can have | a place to praise the Lord, to contemplate the illusory nature of life and the | vanity of it all. Some of you may ask: "But why the hell is he building a cell | in the middle of a cross-road?" You see, my dear readers, a retirement from | life is only a symbolic act. One cannot simply abandon wordily life and the | secular pleasures in order to achieve an enlightenment. One must abandon not | only the material objects, but the thought of them, one must abolish the | desire for these objects. Thus Iliya, having obviously studied the holy | scriptures, is building himself a cell where all the wordily temptations can | reach him, so he may exercise his powers and reject them. Another thing to | consider here is that probably nobody wanted to deliver him the stone material | for the cell to a place where there are no roads. The Bulgarian contractors | are notorious with their inflexibility in this respect. That is why Iliya is | building a cell on a crossroad. | | But what do you know! Just when the noble lad has finished his cell and has | prepared himself for a long night of prayers and meditations - look who's | coming! Irina, a young, beautiful woman, that has been the downfall of many a | pious monks, has decided to visit Iliya. Notice where she is coming from. The | bards say that she's coming "otdolu", "from below". And we all know, don't we, | what this word refers to. Irina is sent from Satan himself, so she can tempt | Iliya and ensure him the fires of Hell forever. And she is talking to Iliya, | not unlike Eve was talking to Adam in times Biblical, and we all know how that | ended, don't we? | | What is she saying? She says: Take me, brother Iliya". Aha! Eve was urging | Adam to take the "apple" - the evil, but Irina is saying "take ME"! The evil | of the world has reached gigantic proportions since times Biblical and now the | carrier of evil is evil herself. Before there was Eve and the apple, but now | just the carrier of evil - Irina herself - is capable to cause the downfall of | the poor, defenseless man! Note that she perfectly well realizes the absurdity | of her wishes, since she refers to the cell as "narrow" - "tyasna". Why is the | cell narrow? Because in the life of Iliya there is no place for evil, and | Irina knows it, yet she insists to be "taken". Astounding, ain't it!? | | But, of course, Iliya firmly refuses, setting an example for all of us. He | says, I can't, honey-pie, not a phucking chance! Ooohh, but he is smart, for | he knows what a heap of trouble she is trying to get him into. He says, I | can't because your hair is blond and your eyes are blue. And we all know what | that means, don't we? Let me tell you, when I was in my prime, I met a blond, | blue-eyed woman (from Sweden) on a resort on the Black Sea. She took whatever | she was looking for, and then shamelessly abandoned me to suffer in loneliness | and despair. So, probably Iliya has had similar experiences and knows better | than to believe women with blond hair and blue eyes. Atta boy! | | But Irina doesn't give up. She's offering to change her appearance, without | realizing that Iliya is not concerned with the appearance, the form, but he | cares for the essence, for the Truth covered by the form. So she's ready to | close her eyes, and dye her hair, but she's not ready to give up her evil | ways. | | We can't be sure how the story ends, but I for one, am pretty confident that | Iliya has resisted all temptations and had continued on his spiritual | journey. May we all fight any future temptations and uphold the righteous way, | just as he did! | Amen. | | Just sharing... | ILYA | -= Ivan =- | |
- -- Ventsislav Genchev Atlantis BG, Ltd. E-mail: vigour@atlantis.bg phone: +35928757001
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