Maslina

Olive is a sacred tree. Throughout history, there are not a few trees that have gained the status of sanctity among certain peoples and cultures, but few trees have deserved it for several reasons. Not only is it fertile, it bears miraculous fruit, it is long-lived, it is also aesthetically unsurpassed, each olive tree is a story and a scene in itself. That entanglement as a code of duration. As her instruction to people. An essential lesson that is nowhere more beautiful than the cauldron.

It's an olive, he explains Matvejević u Mediterranean Breviary, the first border of the Mediterranean circle - the fig marks the second, wider circle...

But is that the only Mediterranean sign that someone in Montenegro wants to erase, to cancel? Let's just think - how the Mediterranean architecture, the Mediterranean culture, the Mediterranean sound has passed here - all of that was erased in one way or another, disappeared in favor of some inauthentic fashions or fascinations.

Mediterraneanism was often perceived as something suspicious, foreign and even dangerous in Montenegro.

"Without Mediterranean influence Chaucer i Shakespeare they would never become original poets," he wrote Aldace Huxley. And listen to another Englishman who was fascinated by the Mediterranean, Lawrence Durrell, writer Alexandria Quartet: "The entire Mediterranean - sculptures, palm trees, gold jewelry, bearded heroes, wine, ideas, ships, moonlight, winged Gorgons, bronze figures, philosophers, all of this emerges through the sharp and acrid taste of black olive between the teeth. It is older than the taste of meat and red wine. It is as old as cold water.”

If there is a plant that is a sign of identity, a sign of civilization, then it is the olive.

Old and New Testament plant (Mount of Olives), and for Prophet Muhammad, the olive tree is "light above light - neither eastern nor western."

In this light, isn't it really an incredible idea for someone to cut down olive trees, to do anything with that land - even to build a cathedral or a university... Because the land can hardly be more consecrated, it can hardly be filled with more meaning but in the case where olives grow there.

As noted by Matvejević u Breviary, "It was taken care of by the statutes of cities by the sea and the constitutions of maritime countries."

In those statutes and constitutions, the current and supreme deity of our time and space is certainly not mentioned anywhere - the investor...

Bar and Ulcinj used to have more olive trees than the rest of the eastern coast of the Adriatic... Someone told me, or I read somewhere, that in of King Nikola A coastal Montenegrin had to plant ten olive trees in order to get married.

So, someone came up with the idea to cut down the old olive trees, the millennium olive grove, so to speak, in the center of Bar, why not build there - new apartments, cafes, so-called. tourist content...

It seems creepy, bizarre, disappointing, it shows a society without landmarks. But we also know that without olives. Cases like this show it sadly flagrantly, so explicitly... How executed today's Montenegro is, how far it has fallen from any civilizational reason.

At one time, the Bar cypresses made a kind of civil movement, although they were eventually cut down, so it is to be hoped that the fate of these Bar olives will be different, as well as the final outcome of the whole story.

The Old Olive is also in vain, although every olive is a whole mythology, a book in which the ages are piled up like chapters.

Last but not least, one of the key songs of Montenegrin modern lyrics is Zogovićeva Instruction to olives, and that is also binding. That is, it should be binding. Where there is someone to oblige. In that song is the famous wording: "Strength for a stone".

But the last government that could be said to have read anything in Montenegro was the one they called "unpopular", and which was overthrown in 1989 when the "young and beautiful" came.

Someone should feel immense shame about all this. And what do you think - will it happen?