SUMMARY (MOVIE)
Legends say that by stepping on hot coals, the ancient Thracians worshipped their Sun God, asked him for health, to protect them from enemies and for an abundant harvest. That is how the ancient fire-dancers met the coming summer, praising the name of the Sun God, who brought the fire.
There are different views about the semantics of the expression "Fire Dancing". Its root is to be found in the words "sighing", "fire" and "resurrection". Traces in our land of the ancient cult of the Sun can be found throughout different periods. Its appeal lies in the legends which it has revealed to the world. Stigmatized by the church as heresy, this tourist attraction is now under UNESCO`s protection. It has been jealously guarded for centuries. These people have no holidays, or better they do not value them, and even work on Sundays. They celebrate only, and with special rites, St. Constantine and St. Enya (St. Enya`s day - Midsummer) ... " Although, the fire-dancers play over the embers with an icon of St.. Constantine (who declared the Christianity as a religion in the Roman Empire) and his mother St. Helena, even today the custom has not been recognized by the Church.
It is persecuted by the Church and the fire-dancers themselves are claimed to be "possessed by the devil." The painful nature of the rituals has thrown into the background the awareness of the fire-dancers' ethnicity - magic, prophecies, healing from diseases and ritual trance.
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