LIBRETTO “MYSTERIES IN THE VALLEY”

Under the lightnings flash more than 2300 years ago at the foot of this Sacred for the Tracians mountain Seuthos the 3rd – the King of Odryses was buried.
>From that night he returned to a Legend that is alive to this Day...
Mysticism, Faith, Life on the Earth, Life Beyond...
The Thracian Kings-Orphics believed in the Immortallity!
Occult Cognition....
The Way to beyond is a Cognition!...
....And when the Thracian King shall beg the Great Goddess-Mother, who is the Universe, to let Him take the Road to Beyond, she will wince and appear and then...
The rite area is buried in a mistic twilight. Under a mighty tree – symbol of the Antiquity and the Eternity, the Sorceress is coming out as if her own “skin”. She is the Main Priestess, which “pulls the wires” of everything and commands the Fate! By the end of the ritual we will find her presense and interferetion in everything that happen.
The voice of the silence is passing to beat sounds. The Sorceress is beginning her ritual dance, lighting the sacrificial fires and calling her devoted servants to start the Great Ritual. They are coming wordless and spreading out a ritual carpet to designate the Sacred Place where the ritual will happen!
Here comes the Great Tracian King Seuthos 3rd and his Queen – the Odrysian Princess.
Above them it is She – the Great Goddess-Mother – the Universe, who has been called from Seuthos 3rd to enlighten and lead him to his way to Beyond.
The first wife of Seuthos 3rd – the Anatolian Princess Berenika, is arriving and bringing her former husband a gift – gold treasure!
The time has come when the King has to take the Road! The Great Goddess-Mother is giving him a Pomegranate Fruite – a symbol of death and life, soaked with Divine Blood!
Seuthos 3rd is drinking the fruite juice up!
The Pomergranate is tasty!
It is a sign! It is the beginning of the Road!
The King is dying, but his energy is passing Beyond!
>From this Fateful sign the New King is born. The Great Goddess-Mother is giving him a Rite vessel Rhyton, full of wine – again a symbol of Divine Blood.
He is drinking!
The wine is tasty too!
Thus the Heir has been broght in dignity.
Seuthos 3rd, already dead, is presenting his own funereal feast.
In the funereal procession his devoted subjects are bringing his body to the Tomb where it will be laid.
The Queen is willing to accompany her husband in his way to Beyond.
The new King is sacrificing her hitting her with a ritual hammer. The priestesses are laying her in a stretcher and bringing her to the Tomb.
The new King is ascending the throne and in his honnor feasts, games, competitions, fightings and flash entertainment are beginning. The all Thracian inhabitans are celebrating and enjoying themselves.
After his victory in all competitions and fightings and after his painful parting, the First Warrior in the Kingdom is bringing his beloved woman as a gift to the new King. She is the chosen one from the all! She has been predeterminated from the Fate to become the new Queen!
The Great Goddess-Mother dresses her with a ritual mantle and the new King is ascending her to the throne.
The Mission of the Sorceress has been accomplished and it all is over.
It ends and starts from the beginning.
The eternal circle of the Fate closes and continues to rotate...
And it all is beying buried in the timeless and eternity...