Olympic Games and their spiritual message [antikvár]

OLYMPIA This is Olympia, the place where the Olympic Games took place and l'rom which they got thcir name. The date we have for the beginning of Olympic Games is 776 B.C, However, it is ccrtain thai the games had staricd many centuries before. The Greekx believed that Gods themselves had startcd the Games followcd by the heroes. Hercules being the first among them. This indicates how deep into the centuries the beginning of Olympic Games lies. However, at somé point ufter the fali of the Myccnaean culture, a horrible decline followed. Fights, civil wars, famines, plagues and natural disasters swept everything. It was in thosc years ihat the athletic games stopped. Then the peopie in desperation tumed to God. The king of Peloponnesus Ifitos went to Delphi to the temple of God Apollo to cnquire Pythia. the médium, what they should do to overcome the disasters. Pythia spoke with the words of Apollo: "Start immediately (he Athletic Games!"