The Eternal Struggle on the Threshing-Floor

(Above) 1935 photo by L. Johnson, 

from Karl Asplund, Hellas, Stockholm, 1931

Waiting on the threshing-floor!

(Above) Tservari, 1954, 

from Paskalomansis, Eleni Oikonomidou-Douvli 

A photograph by Nelly's

“All the footpaths lead to the High Threshing Floors.

The air is sharp up there.”

"They have met Dhighenis on those same threshing-floors and have dined there,
cutting their sufferings in two, just as they cut their loaves of barley bread over their knees".

Ritsos, Romiosyni (translated by Kimon Friar)

Solomos' alonaki:

"My eyes have never seen a more glorious spot than this small threshing-floor"- Dionysios Solomos

"I believe in Man's heart, that earthen threshing-floor where night and day the defenders of the borders fight with death" - Nikos Kazantzakis.

Four Threshing-Floor Photographs from the superb "Zagorision Vios, Zagori: The Life of a Community"

(book and exhibition)