terça-feira, 3 de abril de 2012

"Kill Them All, For God Will Know His Own" (Arnaud Amaury) - The Béziers Massacre July 22, 1209


Arnaud Amaury


Peire Cardenal




















Peire Cardenal`s (1204-1272) satirical and moral account with the orgy of violence which ended the Albigensian Crusade ("everyone has what he deserved
according to its vice or virtue")

Razos es qu'ieu m'esbaudei


Razos es qu'ieu m'esbaudei
E sia jauzens e gais
E diga cansos e lais
E un sirventes desplei,
Quar leialtatz a vencut


Falsetat, e non a gaire
Quez ieu ai auzit retraire
Qu'us fortz trachers a perdut
Son poder e sa vertut.



("J'ai toutes les raisons de me réjouir,
d'être joyeux et gai,
de chanter, de dire des vers
et de déployer mon sirventès


car Loyauté a vaincu
Fausseté:
on m'a rapporté il n'y a guère
que le plus perfide des traîtres
a perdu sa force et son pouvoir.")



Dieus fa, e fara e fei,
Aissi com es Dieus verais,
Drech als pros e als savais
E merce, segon lur lei.
Quar a la paia van tut,
Pope Inoncent III


L'enganat e l'enganaire,
Si com Abels a son fraire.
Que·l trachor seran destrut
E li trait ben vengut.





("Etant Dieu véridique,
Dieu fait, fera et fit
droit aux preux et aux méchants
et miséricorde selon leur propre loi.
Car, à la paye, tous y vont ,
le trompé comme le trompeur,


et, de la même manière qu'Abel avec son frère,
les traîtres seront détruits
et les trahis bien venus.")




Dieu prec que trachors barrei
E los degol e los abais
Aissi con fes los Algais,
Quar son de peior trafei.
Quez aisso es ben sauput:


Pieger es trachers que laire,
Qu'atressi com hom pot faire
De convers monge tondut,
Fai hom de trachor pendut.



("Je prie Dieu qu'il renverse les traîtres,
les précipite et les abaisse,
comme il fit des Algais,
car ils sont de pire commerce.
Et ceci est bien connu :
"Le traître est pire que le larron" ,
et, de même qu'on peut faire


d'un convers un moine tondu,
on fait d'un traître un pendu.")


De lops e de fedas vei
Que de las fedas son mais,
E per un austor que nais
Son mil perditz, fe qu'ie'us dei.


Az aisso es conogut
Que hom murtriers ni raubaire
Non plas tant a Dieu lo paire
Ni tant non ama son frut
Com fai del pobol menut.



("Pour ce qui est des loups et des brebis,
je vois que les brebis sont en plus grand nombre,
et pour un autour qui naît
il y a mille perdrix, par la foi que je vous dois.


D'après cela l'on connaît
que l'homme meurtrier et ravisseur
ne plaît pas autant à Dieu le Père
et qu'il n'aime pas autant sa lignée
que celle des petites gens .")



Assatz pot aver arnei
E cavals ferrans e bais
E tors e murs e palais
Rics hom, sol que Dieu renei.


Doncs ben a lo sen perdut
Aquel acui es veiaire
Que tollen l'autrui repaire
Deia venir a salut,
Ni·l dons Dieus quar a tolgut.



("Il peut avoir en suffisance armures,
chevaux gris et bais,
tours, murs et palais
l'homme puissant, pourvu qu'il renie Dieu.
Donc il a bien perdu la raison
celui à qui il semble
qu'en s'emparant de la demeure d'autrui
il doive arriver à son salut,
et que Dieu lui donnera parce qu'il a pris.")



Quar Dieus ten son arc tendut,
E trai aqui on deu traire
E fai lo colp que deu faire:


A quecs si com a mergut,
Segon vizi o vertut.

("Car Dieu tient son arc tendu,
et il tire où il doit tirer
et il porte le coup qu'il doit porter :
chacun a ce qu'il a mérité,
selon son vice ou sa vertu.")

"Béziers was a Languedoc stronghold of Catharism, which the Catholic Church condemned as heretical and which Catholic forces exterminated in the Albigensian Crusade.
Béziers was one of the first places to be attacked. The crusaders reached the town July 21, 1209. Béziers' Catholics were given an ultimatum to hand over the heretics or leave before the crusaders besieged the city and to "avoid sharing their fate and perishing with them."[5] However, they refused and resisted with the Cathars. The town was sacked on July 22, 1209 and in the bloody massacre, no one was spared, not even Catholic priests and those who took refuge in the churches. One of the commanders of the crusade was the Papal Legate Arnaud-Amaury (or Arnald Amalaricus, Abbot of Citeaux). When asked by a Crusader how to tell Catholics from Cathars once they had taken the city, the abbot supposedly replied, "Kill them all, God will know His own" - "Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet". (This often quoted phrase is sourced from Caesarius of Heisterbach along with a story of all the heretics who desecrated a copy of the Gospels and threw it down from the town's walls.[6]) Amalric's own version of siege, described in his letter to Pope in August 1209 (col.139), states:"While discussions were still going on with the barons about the release of those in the city who were deemed to be Catholics, the servants and other persons of low rank and unarmed attacked the city without waiting for orders from their leaders. To our amazement, crying "to arms, to arms!", within the space of two or three hours they crossed the ditches and the walls and Béziers was taken. Our men spared no one, irrespective of rank, sex or age, and put to the sword almost 20,000 people. After this great slaughter the whole city was despoiled and burnt.."
The invaders burned the cathedral of Saint Nazaire, which collapsed on those who had taken refuge inside. The town was pillaged and burnt. None were left alive. (A plaque opposite the cathedral records the 'Day of Butchery' perpetrated by the 'northern barons'.) A few parts of the Romanesque cathedral of St-Nazaire survived, and repairs started in 1215. The restoration, along with that of the rest of the city, continued until the 15th century." (Wikipedia source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béziers")


sábado, 31 de março de 2012

"She's My Rushmore, Max!" My Favourite Film Rushmore



Ooh La La - The Faces
Poor old Granddad, I laughed at all his words
I thought he was a bitter man
he spoke of women's ways
they'll trap you when they use you


before you even now
for love is blind and you're far to kind
don't ever let it show



I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger



the can-can such a pretty show
will steal your heart away
but backstage back on earth again
the dressing rooms are grey


they come on strong and it ain't too long
for they make you feel a man
but love is blind and you soon will find
you're just a boy again



when you want her lips, you get her cheek
makes you wonder where you are
if you want some more then she's fast asleep
leaves you twinkling with the stars


poor young grandson there's nothing I can say


you'll have to learn, just like me
and that's the hardest way



ooh la la
ooh la la, la la, yeah



I wish that I knew what I know now


when I was younger
I wish that I knew what I know now
when I was stronger














Ending Scene




Rushmore - Hardest Geometry Problem in the World (Opening scene)

Norse Goddess Freya


Great Goddess, Mistress of cats,
Lady of love, beautiful Vana-Goddess,
Fulfill my greatest needs, O glorious one.




Teach me the magic I need.
Give me a glimpse of your deep wisdom.


Teach me in dreams. Enrich my life.




O Lady, you are Golden-Tears of Asgard
Lady of love, beautiful Vana-Goddess,
You are the Shape-shifter, the Sayer,
The Independent One.




Give me the strength and the magic I need.










Queen of the warrior-women,
Freyja of the Black Swordhand,




Mistress of Magic, enchantments deep,
You who beckon to fallen heroes,
Hearken to this, your child.

I would weave strong magic for protection,
Deep magic to bind and chasten.




I lift up my sword to repel all attackers.
Beware, foul troublemakers!
For Freyja whispers her spells in my ear.




Freyja, Queen of the Valkyries, stands at my side.








Freya, Goddess of gold,



inspire me today.
Teach me to walk through my day
with pride in my own being,



with confidence, 
with power.



Goddess of fiery passion,
bless me with the insight


to the marrow of my bones
that I am a person of worth


in the eyes of the Gods
the eyes of the ancestors
and of myself.



May I radiate this
and transforms all I meet.
That is my prayer for this day, oh great and powerful Goddess,
that I may mirror Your presence throughout my day.



In return, I shall praise You always,
and lay amber before Your image,
consigning it to the sacred fires that burn
when the day is at its longest.
Hail Freya, shining Goddess of gold.
I praise You.



























Norse Freya Faun´s (German Pagan Volk Band) Singer Fiona Rueggerberg












Faun - Unda



Faun - Andro