The crater 3

The crater 3

Greece
Aegean Sea
Dodecanese
island of Nisiros(for more information please refer to the first photo in the series Nisiros. Thank you very much).

Benevolence and Malice

Setting foot right on the bottom of the crater and looking up the height of the side walls, iniiated a strange feeling to me together with thoughts that sometimes can be proved more substantial and instructing than those I had when lying nonchalantly on one of the several plasant shores of the island and enjoying the sea. Noticing the miniature of my human figure I felt a certainty that human societies, even in the peak of their most notable state of evolution, lie and depend on the mercy of Nature. It's only enough, I thought, for this gigantic and presently deadly silent whole to decide to abandon it's state of inertia and the underground powers buried within to regain an urge to resurface and put in conflict a prehistoric past with a contemporary present,no matter how progressed is that and the former will certainly be the winner... In the middle of it's roaring and exhuming rage the human heartbeat will be just a faint and dying sound, his cry for help a desperate echo lost in the coming centuries and his body will probably end an interesting exhibit in the museums of future, as in Pompei.History has a lot of examples to provide of human impotence to Nature's supremacy..Nature has been through and stood inummerable stages of evolution that have altered radically its figure. Man, comparatively, very few and remains more or less the same. And on top of everything the same fragile and mortal.....Only few years ago, somewhere in Iceland, just an amount of ash released in the air as a result of a minor volcanic agitation, caused a temporary chaos in air traffic!
As much Nature is benevolent and generous as much can turn malicious, vindictive and punishing.
And that's why primitive societies were fast to coincide Nature with God being more impressed and subdued by her power than by any benevolence...

But Nisiros isn't only a volcano......
In the photo, visitors wandering on the crater surface as...ants on buffalo's horn...