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Post by gadoo » Sun Jul 27, 2003 7:58 am

some more self indulgence
Hovaness Toumanian wrote:2. Legend : Akhtamar



Every night , some stranger ,

In the dark , without boat

Makes his way to a small island

In the middle of lake Van .



He makes his way boldly

Through the heavy waves .

Directed by the strong and bright

Shine of the remote light .



Night by night the faraway light

Radiates promise and love .

Night by night , hidden in the dark ,

Tamar is waiting for her beloved .



The delight that awairs him

Helps the lover fight the heavy waves .

Seeing his Tamar wrapped in passion

Waiting for him in the dark .



It is worth all the waiting

When they thrown themselves

In each other's arms ,

Feeling like angels in heaven .



Yet tomorrow will come ,

And again the light will signal promise .

Everything will be the same :

The love , the delight , and the dark .



But the secret love was soon revealed

By some jealous enemies .

They put down the light ,

And the lower lost his way .



All frustrated were his hopes ,

To see the familiar light in the dark .

Pulling all his strength together ,

In vain he tried to find his way .



As the sun broke though the dawn ,

The water brought a dead body ashore .

On his face a frozen grimace ,

"Akh , Tamar ! " the dead lips said .



Many years have passed since then .

Still the island keeps its spell .

Gloomily , it raises over the water ,

And is called Akhtamar .
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Post by gadoo » Sun Jul 27, 2003 8:32 am

I found a more english friendly version

Akhtamar
Hovhannes Toumanian

Into the moonlit waters of the sea of Van,
From the shores of a tiny hamlet,
Enters the water as thief in the night,
Each and every night a lad.

He enters the water without a boat,
With arms powerful and virile,
Parting the water he swims on,
Towards the island on the opposite shore.

From the dark island, clear and bright
A beaming light beckons him on,
A powerful beacon just for him,
To help guide him on his path.

The fair Tamar every night,
Prepares a fire on that isle,
And she awaits him impatiently,
In the dark bushes nearby.

The untame water crashes and roars,
And the lad's heart crashes along,
The water howls in frightful screams,
And fight it does menacingly.

Now Tamar, with her heart pounding,
Finally hears the sounds nearby,
The splashing of water and with all her being,
She's ablaze with love severe.

Silence, along the dark shore,
Stands a lone shadowy figure,
Alas! It's he, they find each other,
On this mysterious quiet night.

Only the waves of the sea of Van,
Now gently caress its shores,
Subsiding as they retreat,
Murmuring unintelligibly.

You may say they're whispering
And the stars arched above,
Glance down and slander away,
At impudent, shameless Tamar...

Their gaze disturbs the maiden's heart,
It's time to part...and once again,
One enters the turbulent sea,
Whilst the other prays on its shore...

Who might that daring young man be?
Intoxicated with his love,
His heart void of dread or fear,
He crosses the sea by night?

He swims from the opposite shore,
And our Tamar he does kiss,
Snatching a girl from our own hands,
What does he take us for?

Thus they spoke in bitter pain,
The young men of this island,
And Tamar's hand-lit light,
They extinguished this one night.

Bewildered in the darkened sea,
The swimmer lad, her beloved,
And the wind lifts and it carries,
His merciful sighs, "Ah! Tamar!"

His voice is near, in the deafening darkness,
Wedged between the jagged rocks,
Where the untamed water roars,
At times muffled and at times lost,
And at times feebly heard, "Ah! Tamar!"

At dawn the calm water floats in,
Upon the shore it leaves a corpse,
On his stiffened and frozen lips,
Perhaps you'd say at time of death,
Frozen were two words, "Ah! Tamar!"

For this reason since that day,
The island was named "AKHTAMAR."

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Post by Propyro » Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:11 am

:lol: LMAO ... thats classic

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Post by Otohiko » Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:37 am

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The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…

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Post by Propyro » Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:54 am

google image search is my new favorite toy ...

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Post by fyrtenheimer » Sun Jul 27, 2003 10:20 am

I'm going to copy you and do this as well , gadoo. Under, fyrt there's:

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Apparently 'Fyrt' is the name of some land mark or something, I don't know. The pages were in another language I couldn't read.
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Post by Otohiko » Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:00 pm

fyrtenheimer wrote:I'm going to copy you and do this as well , gadoo. Under, fyrt there's:

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Apparently 'Fyrt' is the name of some land mark or something, I don't know. The pages were in another language I couldn't read.
hehe, I remember I randomly posted that in a thread a month ago or so :lol:

It's a castle somewhere in Sweden, it seems....
The Birds are using humanity in order to throw something terrifying at this green pig. And then what happens to us all later, that’s simply not important to them…

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Post by fyrtenheimer » Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:05 pm

Oh shit. Well, that's fascinating.
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Post by gadoo » Sun Jul 27, 2003 4:26 pm

interesting indeed

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