For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (332): Inertia of Inertia (178)

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Published: Tuesday, October 20 2020 19:57

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TRIUMPHANT RETURN
(Bucharest, July 19, 2020)
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

On December 8, 2019,
I took the picture below,
including the Palace of Parliament
(the largest civilian-administrative building in the world),
the Cathedral of National Salvation
(the largest Orthodox Church in the European Union)
and the planet Venus
(the brightest heavenly object with a stellar aspect).

Uranus (“sky” in old Greek)
was the sky god in Greek mythology
and inspired both the names of a planet
and a beautiful Bucharestian district,
built on a hill (closer to the sky).

But the totalitarian regime demolished
much of the hill and the entire district
to make way for the “house of dictatorship”
(1984-1989).

The same regime also demolished
(or moved on rails) the churches,
as if it wanted to drive away
the One who created the galaxies
(people usually call him God).

But the Romanian people diverted this plan
eliminating the atheist regime (1989),
finalizing the building (1990-1997)
and turning it into a “house of democracy” -
the national parliament.

Moreover, on December 1, 2018,
the Romanian Patriarchy
inaugurated in the same area
the Cathedral of National Salvation,
100 years after the Romanian Great Union.

It seems that the Creator of Galaxies
wanted to return triumphantly
to the sky district.