What also comes to mind is poetry and mythology - oral tradition of pass
me down metaphysics. This tune in the words helps relate words in a way that
simply by monotoning the words won't do. The tune is a major part of the
metaphysics, of reality itself, thus, a quality life.
Here's another excerpt from this book I quoted by Calvin Martin:
"It's not so much that something is conjured up in speech and art or
artifice as it is that connections, linkages, or hinges are made between
things, or better yet, between beings. There is a handshake. Mythology
maintains that all of creation existed first as thought, which was then uttered
as speech, by which powers the primal beings took shape (or were given space in
which to function) [not my parenthesis]. These primal beings, including animal
beings, among them the notorious trickster-transformer, created in turn by
manual artifice - again, so the stories say. Hunters think of humankind as the
keepers of these formulaic stories, the narrators and symbolizers of the
blueprint of creation. They believe themselves responsible for repeating these
tales in order to keep them alive and, further, to regenerate the system.
Mankind, in fine, has the mind uniquely capable of imaging the vast yet
interconnected network of creation and rendering it
in language and material structure. In this sense, hunters view themselves as
the historian-regenerators and artist-regenerators. This, for them, is the
great calling of our kind."
woods,
SA
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMIvAsZvBiw&feature=related
> >
> > P.S. Remind anybody of anything... string theory?
>
>
> SA: Also reminds me of this:
>
> "Nature, for hunter-gatherers throughout recorded
> time (we imagine this held true for paleolithic hunters),
> is, above all, song. Power songs. Songs with flattering
> words; they are always songs of courtesy, conveying care
> and respect. 'Because he who comes looks so fine'
> was the caribou lure song... (of an) old man... (who) sung
> it when courting, hunting, caribou persons over the
> years... [others recorded this song was sung by others from
> the region where caribou live and] "...the song has an
> old lineage among the Indians of this region of
> Canada."
> Women in hunting societies tended to have a
> complementary revelation at first menstruation, being then
> made privy to the earth-plant power of
> creation-procreation-sustenance which they housed within
> themselves. They, in turn, would learn the lyrics and
> music of plant beings, who were by definition medicine
> beings." [Calvin Martin; In the Spirit of the Earth:
> Rethinking History and Time]
>
> Song! Songs in these societies had the
> relationships, the reality, the existences' of these
> ways come alive.
> hmm, sound makes form.
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