Is that all right to accept Florin Bogardo invitation that sounds like: “Never forget to love roses?”, the symbol of love. The roses scent surrounds us with mysteries and unforgetable memories.
Stolen with the daily worries, caught in day by day activities, we forget to stop from time to time in front of nature, to admire its beauty and welcome it properly.
This is a tribute for the garden flowers which beautifies the Garden od Eden, the wonderful gardens of Babylon, weaving in sap secretly the future red flowers in the warm spring rains.
The Divine Saphho (600 B. H.) not accidentallynamed the rose Queen of Flowers, leaving behind whispers and legends.
It is said that long time ago, in the distant lands lived the most beautiful girl in the world – Rodante and her incomparable beauty was conquering any mortal.
But she loved the Sun and she stood every day to watch the sun shining, ignoring the young urging people who wanted to marry her.
One day, upset that she doesn’t pay any attention to them, they broke the door of her house intending to kidnap her.
Then, the godess Diana was grieved terribly and transformed the young girl in a rose to protect her and the young lovers in thornes to remain with her forever.
The rose, born from a love story became the most sincere message of love and source of inspiration for writers and poets.
Zaharia Barsan translates in verse the love story of a young man who gave every night to his lover a rose stained with his own blood. Love and sacrifice are the supreme proof of fulfillment.
In these songs is the soul of me/That I leave here to play near you
To brighten your mind and life for the future
And summer nights with their charms. (The Red Roses)
Poetry is the rose that grows in the gold cup with beautiful soul. (M. Eminescu)
The legends based on roses are:
Homer who described in Iliada that shield of Achilles, like Hector’s helmet were decorated with roses to protect them in battles.
In Ancient Greece, rose was considered the flower of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love.
The legend tells that the red rose was born from Adonis blood, killed by Ares, because he fell in love with Aphrodita.
During holidays, nero let to rain from the ceiling with rose petals and guests put around their necks garlands and wreaths of roses on the head because Dyonisus (Bachus) would tell that roses make you thnk clear and don’t make you confess secrets when you’re drunk.
Cleopatra bedded at Marcus Antonius feet such a thick carpet of rose petals that he was sinking in it to his knees.
In Hinduism rose symbolised perfection, the cup of life, soul, heart and love.
Beginning with the fall of Roman Empire, roses began to be cultivated only in monasteries, as herbs until Charlemagne restored their cultivation.
in the first period of Christianity, the rose was not mentioned so often, remembering of the pagan Rome,lust and sensuality.
Starting with the 19th century, the rose gained a new understanding, a certain contribution being brought by the allegorical poem The Divine Comedy of Dante Aligheri.
To Christians,red roses, especially red colour symbolizes the mystical rebirth.
Red rose is associated with the blood of Jesus lost on the cross.
