In everyday life, symbols represent genuine landmarks, which, through their nature, have the role of ‘revealing’ what they stand for, which is not always accessible to those who get in contact with them. Thus their representation becomes essential through not only its meanings but also through the role it plays in the communication process.

Our insight into mythology has as reference point a special symbol that is meant to get us into a world under the empire of force and intelligence at the same time, a world that remains a real ‘enigma’ for many people.

Actually we refer to the representation of a world whose meanings become its raison d’être, to serve the nation that it represents, with faith and wisdom. In the representations of those who work for it, this world acquires the identity of a power that brings together earthly force and superhuman energies.

The form of this identity is represented by the GRIFFIN, a fabled bird that combines the celestial energy - through its eagle head and claws - with the earthly power, suggested by the body of a lion. The ancient people are known to have assigned the griffin to be the guardian of treasures. The griffin often appears on the Dacian stones before as well as after the Roman conquest. We can also find them on Trajan’s Column as ornaments on the Dacian weapons. The famous Dacian helmets, the numerous fibulas, the harness parts, are proofs of a rich Geto-Dacian tradition connected with the griffin. This did not happen by chance. Ancient authors Pindar, Apollonius of Rhodes, Vergil, speak about griffins as being part of the Thracian pantheon. Thus, Apollo is represented many times accompanied by griffins. Pindar: ‘After building the fortress of Troy with Aeacus and Neptune, Apollo returned to his country, onto the other side of the Histrium (the Danube), to the Hyperboreans’. Therefore, the griffin - half eagle, half lion - is a hieratic creature belonging first and foremost to the Geto-Dacian and Thracian world (see the Alba-Iulia stones where Apollo is flying helped by some griffins). Another tradition refers to Alexander the Great who tried to get up in the air with the help of some griffins luring them with meat chunks. The eagle holds the cross in its beak – thus reminding of the Romanian eagle with the cross (the country’s coat of arms). It holds the keys in its claws (as it guards treasures), which is a symbol of the power to lock up and open secrets of any kind. The eagle that has always accompanied Apollon as well as Zeus and the Roman Jupiter (thus becoming the coat of arms of the Caesars) is a ferocious hunter endowed with a penetrating look. In both the heraldic tradition and its ancient representations the eagle also has ears – this way its vigilance is enhanced as, besides its quick eyes, ears are added up.

To define a symbol is undoubtedly an attempt that implies both knowledge and imagination. Relating to it implies understanding it. We are speaking here about a world in which the secret is the very condition of its existence. The symbol of such a world, the way it is described above, is represented throughout the history as part and parcel of everything that means preserving and passing on some traditions that have lasted for thousands of years.