Dead Can Dance have a release I would have sworn was an African
religious chant... don't know the name but it's recent.
On 7/7/05, S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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>
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> http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm
>
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