How did ISTRA get its name?

   In the myths and legends passed on in different forms from culture to culture originating from the glorious Empire of Greece, we stumble upon the obscure fable of Istra.  With unsurpassed exquisiteness, her beauty stunned any man whose gaze would meet her figure.  No one could resist her elegance, neither man nor god.
  The Brute, the god of the forest, son of the almighty god Ungit, looked down from his celestial abode and was struck by Istra’s splendor.  He longed to bring her to himself, and to make her his eternal companion.  The Brute achieved what he desired, as the gods usually did, and he provided Istra with all she could ever want and then some.  Beyond his eternal love and endless, sacrificial provision, he gave her only one simple command:  she was never to set eyes on him.
   Istra disobeyed.
   In heart broken desolation, The Brute cast Istra from his presence.  She had disobeyed his one command, and now, the two could no longer remain together…
  We are very much like the girl Istra.  God looks down to us and sees us as He created us, in our forgotten excellence, and His heart aches to be with us.  He draws us to Himself, but because of our defiance, because of the stains of our sin, we cannot co-exist in the same plane of perfection.  It is because of this eternal quandary that God had to make the ultimate sacrifice to be reconciled with His once perfect creation, mankind:  
 “God demonstrates his own love for us in this:  while we were still sinners Christ died for us”  Romans 5:8
No man ever found God; God has always sought to find us.

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