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Thread #46797   Message #696561
Posted By: CapriUni
23-Apr-02 - 12:13 PM
Thread Name: Songwriting 101 (part2)
Subject: RE: Songwriting 101 (part2)
That's what I was thinking, MMario... Orpheus' singing enabling Euridice to return to life -- though he blew it when he turned to look at her too soon (though, according to this website: ANCIENT GREEK MYSTICISM, in some versions, he succeeded). I'm a little fuzzy on how he died, though. I know he was torn to pieces by angry women, but I'm not exactly sure why.... Maybe because his music gave him more power than a human being should have. Anyway, I do know that he was seen as the founder of a mystical religion that taught that the human soul was immortal and could be redeemed, and that when Christianity was young, the early sects in Greece borrowed many ideas from Orpheism to describe and talk about the Christ...

Anyway, enough mythological thread drift.