The amazing white birds on the Danube

I don't remember them coming before. If a few swans appeared on the coast, it would be a real attraction: for the children and all the locals of that small town. And these some people who live by the river have a special relationship to it. They walk along the coast and take pride in that piece of land. The river separates the urban landscape from the pure nature. In the summer, music from the beach bar and birds chirping on the other side flock over it. And in that cacophony, the nut absorbs the prints of one time.

The holidays are over. Everything is slowly catching up to a steady pace. Morning accustomed to the usual sequence of actions that accompanies breathing for the rest of the day. So calm down. Night. Awakening. Behind the time of gifting and celebration remained pounds of excess, a mountain of plastic made in the function of toys, and in fact a huge ballast of planets, and some surviving conifers that by the spring will struggle and struggle to revive and scar their root at the place where a rare fortune planted it. But looking beyond the walls of the small world in which we build our understanding of reality, there is an extraordinary sight on the river.

Everyone knows the story of the ugly duckling. It is a pity that her idea does not come to life in the modern world to the extent that it should. It's a shame that beauty has the prestige of a plastic toy, and that conformism is often the most visible form of behavior. The world, blind to the outer frames of modern life, will not see potential in the ugly duckling, but surrogacy. Superficial beauty, jumping into the expected outfit, and behavior are all measures of value. Even a holiday is a holiday if celebrated according to the rules of consumer mentality. Or not.

And as the city glowed in the light of kitsch lights and figures, a real spectacle was happening on the riverbank. Nature has allowed holidays to take another form, allowing man to absorb beauty that has no market value. A swan flock defied the river this beautiful day. And in this, this day will be different from many previous ones. Their beauty and grace instills confidence in the power of nature.

In its traditional symbolic meaning, the swan has a solar meaning, and as a combination of air and water, represents the bird of life, thus symbolizing - the dawn of the day. Its whiteness, strength and grace are the embodiment of light. And this combination of symbolic meaning and their appearance at a given moment of the beginning of the new year, when the sun makes a new circle and when life is reborn and the growing power of light contributes to the magnitude of the event we can attend.

There are, however, different interpretations by which the swan represents the opposite principle or the evil woman. The explanation for this myth is related to the symbol of a nightmare, whereby the sea represents an evil goddess who has the power to induce the feeling of suffocation in the dream of animals or humans.

Swan also denotes solitude. It's the poet's bird. They say that the swan before death has the most beautiful voice. Hence the term "swan song" denotes the zenith, the best thing that a person leaves behind at the end of his own life. Many peoples and religions attribute to the swan positive symbolic meanings. Thus, in the Greek - Roman tradition, he represents the supreme god Zeus, that is, Jupiter and symbolizes infatuation. In Hinduism, the swan is a divine bird that laid on the waters an evangelical egg from which Brahma came out. In the Christian tradition, the white swan is purity and grace and represents the Virgin Mary, and with its song on the exhale it indicates martyrs and Christian serenity. Celtic mythology attributes to the swans benignity, love and purity, while their music has magical properties .