This is a picture of the beautiful Rila Mountains and the seven Rila Lakes in Bulgaria, with a recording of the song Napred Tchada. The song must have been sung there thousands of times by Peter Deunov’s followers when they camped there every summer.

Napred Tchada
The words…

‘Forward children forward’
‘En avant les enfants, en avant’

This is a recent photograph of Peter Deunov’s followers dancing the Paneurhythmy on the same spot between the Rila Lakes, as in the black and white pictures from the 1930s, with Peter Deunov leading (in our gallery).

Rila 1b