Ferdinand Samardzhi, Grand Master.
Whenever events come, their peaks, history cries out in its epic, in the ancient wells, the depths of the hones, the nebulae of time, to laure the history, the genesis of the nation, our lands. The more and deeper you trace history, the more you search for the nation's genes, the more the earth appears before your eyes, with its first temple on earth, a divine people, earlier than the people chosen in the Bible, of God . History surprises with its roofs, its flow.
An earth as ancient as history, its first writings learn from mythological fountains, where even the eyes of scholars have not yet reached.
The most ancient history of our nation revolves and revolves around the divine Tomorri, around Mount God, where its peaks are located, the splendor of glory, holiness, greatness and pride of the Albanian genesis. The most ancient temple, the first on Earth and all over the world, its history can be seen far and deep, breaking the nebulae of time, the thread of space, flying with the wings of the Deodonin eagle, Zeusian. Although the times with the deep distance of centuries seek to transform it, to diminish this greatness, history shines brighter, the contours of the temple grow and dimension. The genesis of the nation shines and radiates endlessly history.
HOMER- THE PELASGIANS, THE ANCESTORS OF OUR GENESIS
Hesiod, the seventh book, p.16, mentions as the place of the shrine of Dodona the city of Sella of Sellopia. Hellopia is a place full of fertile fields and full of large herds of sheep, cows, laughter. The first of this country were shepherds, cowboys or as they say otherwise, vuvote.
Mythological evidence and historical findings prove that the ancient inhabitants of this country were called ara, argë, arkadhë and later pelasgians, lycaons, hand, cadmej, hierarchs, hylae and in antiquity, Illyrians. In Homeric times, the inhabitants of these places were called Pelasgians, in antiquity Epirote and Illyrian, synonyms of the general ethnic national names of our genesis.
Homer in the "Iliad" says: "After the Enians come the Persians, who live around the evil Dodona". These two tribes, according to Homer, were participants in the Trojan War and inhabited near the Pelasgian Dodona.
Hesiod, in the c. VIII-VII p.e.s. claims that "Dodona and Lisi were the center of the Pelasgians"; that the god Lycaon was the son of the Pelasgians, thus reinforcing the saying of Homer centuries ago, that the Pelasgians, the ancestors of our genesis, were divine.
Therefore, Zeus wanted the most valuable shrine for mankind to be built here, in Dodona, on this high peak, Tomorr, and it to be her Oracle.
The other author, Stefan Bizantini, to better connect the continuity and arrival of the genesis claims that Hellopia, to which the name of the province is associated, is the mythological fountain of the name where the temple is located. Hellopi was the son of Ion, the ethnic name of Hellopia, the province around Dodona. Joni is the son of Durrah. Joni is also the son of the Illyrian king Adria, from whom the Adriatic Sea took its name. The Ionian Bay is the bay where Zeus was born. The Sea of Cronus and Rea, according to Pierre Grimani, the place where the archangel nymph Ioa traveled, followed by Zeus. According to Aeschylus and Ovid, the Ionian Sea, in deep antiquity, included the Adriatic Sea. Pseudo Skylasi, Tuqididi, Claude Ptolemy, Titus Livy, etc., claim that the ancestors "Eleite", the Epirot tribe, respectively Illyrians, spread to southern Italy. In ancient times there are several Epirote cities with this name, but also the bay of Elatea in Efyra. Herodotus initially believed that the names of the deities came from Egypt, but searching, he discovered that they had come from the barbarians. The origin of the religion comes from the barbarians, the Pelasgians and the Illyrian Epirote saint of Dodona.
The priests who served in the temple, as well as the people in the surrounding area, spoke the language of the Pelasgians. Visitors from the Greek provinces were required to arrange for an interpreter. The population of Atamania (Aspropotam, the districts of Xhumreka and Kalarita) was Pelasgian, the ancestor of our genesis. Their spiritual center was the famous temple of Dodona. The priestesses of the shrine of Dodona, the Oracle of Zeus, today's Tomorri, did not speak Hellenic, but cooed like barbarians, a special language, which with mythological, historical evidence, which in the first Homeric writings is documented and transmitted as our ancestral language.
According to mythology, in the Oracle of Dodona, all the people who came beyond the lands of Northern, Southern Illyria and everywhere, from all over the world, came to learn about their fate, its prediction. The three elders of the Oracle of Dodona, mentioned by Strabo, are related to the name of the tribe "Graik" - "Women", which were located in Epirus. The word women is local, Pelasgian, Thesprotian, Albanian.
THE HELLENIC RELIGION OF ATHENS SOURCES FROM THE HOMELAND OF DODONA, ARKADIA
According to the father of history, Herodotus, the Hellenic religion of Athens originates from the homeland where Dodona is located, from Arcadia, from the "elders", i.e. from the Pelasgians, from Epirus, the genesis of our nation. It is thought that there are several oracles of Zeus, not only in our lands, but in Egypt, Libya, Italy, Greece; there are some Oracles of Zeus even outside Epirus, Toske. Dionysus Halicarnassus, in his first book says: "The Pelasgian was the son of Zeus and the son of Nioba of Foron". We know and think that Zeus was born in Arcadia, in the areas of today's Albania, that Foronidha in mythology represents Ion, Europe, one of the women of Zeus, that the name of the nymph is related to the Ionian Sea. In the second book, he claims that Aeneas arrived in Dodona with the most chosen soldiers, to seek the opinion of God, where they also found the Trojans who had fled with Helen. Aeneas arrived in the land of the Enians, with whom he associates not only the common name, but apparently also the origin.
Halicarnassus states that most of the Pelasgians went to the allies, their brothers in Dodona, against whom no one thought of waging war because they were saints. Since the country could not feed them all, by order of the Oracle of Dodona they were thrown into Italy, into Ombre, into the river Pad or Spine. After this hearth, the tradition of holiness, Dodona, Zeus, has spread in the direction of present-day Greece.
SACRIFICE SYMBOL OF WORSHIP FOR GOD
In ancient times, somewhere between Gjirokastra and today's Saranda, there are two cities, Helano and Helakrano, words where at their roots is helliopia, helloi, selloi, ahello, hellan with the roots "hell", proving that the meat slaughtered in honor of Zeus and Pelasgian Dodona were baked on the spit, as a sacrifice to the gods. This is the origin of the sacrifice that takes place today in Tomorr, the Pelasgian Dodona, from the depths of antiquity, which have come and continue to this day. All of Epirus is "helli", "selleis", the place of going to the roast of roasted meats, as a sacrifice and offering to the god.
ANCIENT TEKKE OF DODONA PELASGIAN - THE HERO OF KERBELASA, ABAZ ALIU, THE CONTINUATION OF HOLINESS AND TODAY'S PILGRIMAGE
At the time when a treacherous, unequal war was taking place in Karbala between its 72 heroes, led by Imam Husayn and the great infamous armies of Yazid, Mavia, the infamous dictator of the time, where blood was being shed and the story of freedom was being written. , democracy and human emancipation, Abaz Aliu, when he saw that the enemy had poisoned the Euphrates River and babies with dry lips were crying, as our great poet of the Renaissance, Naim Frashëri, says in his historical poem "Karbala":… Ç ' is the one who goes past Ika as the north with two or three babies in his arms is Abaz Ali… As the legend says, Abaz Ali came exactly to the oldest and holiest temple in the world, in Tomorr, as our renaissance would later call it, "Throne of the Gods", to nurture the babies and warriors of Karbala, who continued as heroes to shed blood for freedom, human emancipation and to bless this country as a former saint. From there, he went to Olympus and back to Karbala to continue the war. Abaz Ali zu Tomorrë Came near us Albania is not poor That God loved him. Sheh Huseyn Tusiu, who was a scholar and had a great knowledge of the "Later Island of Rumelia", for our lands, starting from his ancestor of the prophetic family, came as a missionary and had brought with him documents of his charge of the mission of spreading of the religion and the then handwritten Qur'an, the sword, a symbol of Islam and a bag of earth, taken from the place where the battle of Karbala took place and its martyrs, its fighters, led by Imam Husayn and Abaz Ali, fell. Since in these lands was the oldest temple on earth, as Homer claims, the most divine people settled and came exactly to this temple, at its highest peak, Çuka e Tomorrit, today Abaz Ali, buried the bag with Dhe, thus creating mechanization, Abaz Ali, his Kanotaf tomb.
Starting from the very life of the mythical heroes, whose life is devotion to the gods, since the century. XIV Bektashi believers took care, especially in the service of sanctification, of this ancient temple, as a continuation and motto of their order, Bektashi, Islam, "homeland, nation, religion".
Tradition, from the beginnings of genesis, dedications, worship, offerings, aferomata, in this ancient temple as historical as sacred, the Pelasgian Dodona, the Oracle of Zeus, today's Tomorri, the legend and pride of our genesis, known today and like the temple of Abaz Ali, continues the arrival of pilgrims from all over the world, as they once came from the lands of Northern, Southern Illyria and from all corners of the ancient world. All the pilgrims come to learn and receive fortune for their lives, as once from the oracle priestesses of this ancient, sacred, historic temple.
Tomorri today, all over the mountain, is a huge temple, hosting hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, an entire town, erected with all the necessary infrastructure, organized by the Bektashi World Headquarters, under the direct care of the World Headmaster, the Holy of Holies. His, Haxhi Dede Edmond Brahimaj, and Skrapar's Dedelik headed by her secretary, Mr. Zalo Qato.
Sleepless, people dancing as they once did on the log and lap of the temple ground, scenographed city with lighting, giant TV screens, LED WAll, programs, ensembles, artists from all over the world, organized by the Artistic Union of the Albanian Nation, decorated "Knight of the Order of Skanderbeg", laureate of the medal "Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg", with president Mr. Azgan Haklaj, Grand Master and Secretary General, Mrs. Enida Çami, Grand Master; people who sacrifice, sacrifice to the god, their temple, the Pelasgian Dodona, Abaz Ali - Baba Tomorri.
People who sacrifice, do aferoma, pray and get lucky from this ancient temple, as great joy, as once for Apollo.