The Olympic Flame

By His Superiority Capital Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou VlasiouThe Olympic Games really begin with the explanation of the Olympic scorch that takes place in ancient Olympia and is carried by athletes to the land somewhere it stimulus defeat place.... I meet superficially to make excerpt to the meaning and history of the explanation of the Olympic scorch.The relationship of the Olympic Games with the explanation of the Olympic scorch was beat introduced in 1936 with the Olympic Games in Berlin, and entered inwards the aims and objectives of Nazism. Submit are multiple elements to this trade.Eminent a paper necessitate be mentioned that was accessible at the 16th Course group in ancient Olympia by Schoolteacher Nicholas Nissiotis, who was Lead of the Multi-ethnic Olympic Institution and a belong to of the Multi-ethnic Olympic Committee, with the arrangement "Olympism and Religion". In this paper the at the rear of Schoolteacher leading criticizes as hysterical the majority involving Olympism and Religion and the reading of "Olympism as a pious ideology", which was observed from the beginning of the improvement of the Olympic Games, according to which "the Olympic imitation is a Religion with its church, dogmas, service... but pompous all a pious brainstorm." This is why nearby was speak of the "religio athletae" (Coubertin), as on the other hand he separates Olympism from Religion and accepts the view that the Olympics necessitate be situated as a genial ideology "that inspires brotherhood between polite society", at the same time as Religion "stimulus call back the Olympic Growth, that the trade of brotherhood of the polite society is broader, deeper and harder than it looks."This paper even now, between other baggage, also sets forth the view of some who be responsible for Olympism as a Religion and that "roughly 'rituals' defeat place at the start of the Olympic Games, such as the use of the Olympic scorch within an territory of religious studies" which is apparent as an "roasting pious consider".Dr. Henri Pouret, a belong to of the French Institution of Games, in vogue the work of the 15th Course group in ancient Olympia, tease on "The Olympic Blaze" and outlined his views on the myth, history and symbolism of the Olympic scorch. In regards to the myth he refers to Prometheus who wrap the sacred fire and stimulated it to earth. In regards to history he clearly identifies that the Olympic scorch was beat partner in crime with the Olympic Games absorbed by Hitler in Berlin in 1936 and was the creation of Dr. Carl Diem, Lead and Secretary of the Olympic Games in Berlin, with the okay of John Ketseas, belong to of the Multi-ethnic Committee for Greece. The explanation of the Olympic scorch beat took place for these Games. In regards to the symbolism of the Olympic scorch, he speaks of the energy of Pierre de Coubertin for his objects, who had a attractiveness for symbolism, and argues that the Olympic scorch is a linking scale involving the old and the modern Games and recommends the improvement of the Olympic Games that draws its power from the ancients. The Olympic scorch, he says, "is for all polite society who wait good stimulus, an image of shut up and ascension." The German Educational Schoolteacher Dr. Norbert Mller, at the 16th Course group in Olympia, developed the return of the Olympic Assemble according to Coubertin and Carl Diem and argued that for Coubertin "the Olympics were deserted the institutional background of the anthropomorphic characterization of concepts, that he called in the beginning the Olympic Assemble, and time was 1912 Olympism. This imitation was doomed to hear as multiple polite society as impending in an Olympic Growth." Really, Diem formed the Olympic Games in 1936 according to the objects of Coubertin "to divider the mutual, forgotten contest, the pedagogical facility of the Olympic Assemble. The greatest pictorial tip was the obtain of the Olympic scorch from Olympia to Berlin, conducted with his buddy and valued friend John Ketseas, after that General Secretary of the Committee for the Olympic Games in Greece."As the Olympic scorch was beat introduced to the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, we can spontaneous the journal complete of this opening by Kyriakos Simopoulos, in the role of, as is prearranged, Hitler related the Olympic Assemble with the Nazi Assemble. In Berlin the benchmark with the Olympic circles was of interest with the "swastika" of Nazism, and in fact the French manuscript "Paris Hair salon" described the Olympics absorbed by Hitler as a "pious liturgy". Simopoulos writes: "The Olympic scorch beautified the dogmatic management. And where was in a meeting with the footer 'Germany pompous all in the conception."Schoolteacher Fr. George Metallinos in his reading complete at a lower house of the Heavenly Synod of the Place of worship of Greece referred to the explanation of the Olympic scorch and using references talked about the relationship with the Third Reich "as a Nazi sign up of ancient Greek culture and even the Unadorned", and "the scorch" with all the prearranged pagan symbolism of dignity Nazism, "fusion" downhill a embellish of intense bodies, the ancient Greek family and the bank account of the Third Reich.Now, the explanation of the Olympic scorch is exclusive related to affair waste in conjunction with the step up of the Olympic Games. At least we scarcity to know the history and this knowledge stimulus stretch us from prejudices and ideological rigidity that is a resale and surprising to the Olympic Games and the tradition of our land.Source: "Ekklesiastiki Paremvasi", , February 2004. Eminent published in "Vema" on Sunday, February 15, 2004. Translated by John Sanidopoulos."See also: ""Show off and Spirituality: An Induction""This Extreme Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Birth of the Burst Olympic Games"