Lessee... There's Borknagar from Sweden who write songs about Norse Mythology Nile, who do a Egyptian Mythos thing
There's more.... Scott A. Stewart, Web Application Developer Engineering Consulting Services, Ltd. (ECS) 14026 Thunderbolt Place, Suite 300 Chantilly, VA 20151 Phone: (703) 995-1737 Fax: (703) 834-5527 -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 02:09 pm To: CF-Community Subject: non-christian songs about religion (was Re: Songs about heaven/god/religion) Importance: Low Yeah, that's why I said they probably don't fit the category. On a side note -- I'd be interested to see how many songs folks on the list can dredge up which have religious references or themes that are outside of the judeo-christian ethos ... Barring generic, non-denominational themes (which are sort of assumed to be sung by Christian artists in most cases) and barring (folk) hymns -- secular music, so Hari-Krishna doesn't count. I'm looking for secular tunes that mention things like Buddha, Apolo, Odin, Legbha, Anansi, Shiva, Osiris, Tyr Na Nog (sp?), the Vedas or the Green Man. It occurs to me that I can name more fo the Greeks than any of the other ethos, but I don't want to put out a complete list here, just examples... Anansi is a little known african spider god for instance. Avalon would be acceptable in spite of the fact that Arthurian legends are very Christian oriented because Avalon as I understand it was not a Christian myth. (Muslim is sort of out of the equation just because they place too many restrictions on their music for it to be popular.) When I think about this I want to jump immediately to Cat Stevens because he had an album titled Buddha and the Chocolate Box, but I can't think of any actual song he recorded with the name Buddha in it. A Cold Wind To Valhalla - Jethro Tull Xanadu - don't know (don't care for it, but...) the Rebel Jesus - Jackson Browne (I think -- see below I know he at least calls himself a pagan) Jesus - Cat Stevens (oddly enough -- see the second verse below) They called him Gautama Buddha Oh long time ago He turned the world to order Don't you know He used to sit knowing Oh long time ago Where you and me were going And in the evening his love will lead the blind > Those are really using religious symbology as metaphor for > other > things though. Sort of like Holy Diver that I mentioned. > But that's probably over analyzing it. > On 7/7/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Oh, it occurs to me that there are religious references >> in both Big >> Time ("and I will kneel in a big church, as I pray to a >> big god... and >> my heaven will be a big heaven and I will walk through >> the front >> door") and In Your Eyes ("I see the doorway to a thousand >> churches"). >> Neither of which likely fit the category... s. isaac dealey 954.522.6080 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get Instant Hacker Protection, Virus Detection, Antispam & Personal Firewall. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=62 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:163480 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
