Author: Nilüfer Bilge Aytekin

Publisher: Edenacademia Mouseion

Published: 2020-10-11

Total Pages: 35

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I believe that the stories we tell have written somewhere in the universe many times ago, and transferred to humans’ hearts by people connecting with the universe with their hearts in their own unique way. Some of them transferred these stories with musical notes, some of them used words told in a scene, and some of them with dance or texts. Since when I have connected with my heart and discover what it is, my way is to write what was born into my heart. This story I told you is a fiction about the woman within us, whom we have not taken out of the darkness, courageously confronting the darkness with an intrinsic call, finding herself and leaving her rooted and settled fears and coming to the stage of her own life. This fiction which is fed by mythological characters tells us about one of Lilith’s and Samael’s daughters called Ophelia. In some beliefs, it is believed that her mother, Lilith has been created before Eve and when she wanted to equal rights with Adam, she was fired from the paradise. On that day, to this day, she had been excluded from every mythology, became hated and had been sentenced to darkness with Samael in our collective fears. Ophelia was born in the darkness and had no any idea about lights, she just could see world’s shimmer too far away. She faces with her darkness by an intrinsic call, ascents to the light on her own life stage and courageously discovers what she is, what is unique to her. She goes on a journey with her heart, leaving everything behind, all her labels, which she does not know where she is going, by following the craving and quest in her heart from the darkness, where all the fears imposed on her mother, the woman who demands to take place in the stage of life with her own light. The journey confronts Ophelia the devils inside her, her fears, her longings that she dares and gives up, her injustices to herself, all the fearful lives she has turned down, covered, and hidden. And Ophelia continues to look into her heart, although her fears, despite her own demons. At the end, Ophelia meet with hidden things which into her deepest of heart and things what she was. And she comes out to her own life scene, taking care of herself, her soul, her heart, her abilities, all the values that make her that, and leaving all her fears, worries, judgments. Darkness is an area that we often fear, not dare to get into and stay away from. Whereas we continue to look at all the fears which we don't want to see, we discover all our treasures those we cover in darkness. I believe that a world full of happy people will be created when we bring our talents in the dark to the light and make them visible, when we let go of our fears and give ourselves the chance to be ourselves and become our true authentic self. This story is dedicated to all women who bravely took place on their own stage, excluded, harmed, killed throughout history, to Hypatia and to my own soul. The brightest, the most attractive pearls are in the deepest seas. As long as you dare to look at your heart, to find it...