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ANCIENT CULTURES: MYTHS AND POETRY
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SOUNDTRACK PERFORMANCE GROUP'S narrative series of CD's presents an overview of ancient cultures and attempts to bring them to life through their own words, their beliefs and their stories.
By allowing them to speak to us through their poetry and their myths, we hope to experience some of their wisdom and spirit.
By understanding their view of humanity's role in the world and in the cosmos, it is hoped we will achieve a greater awareness of our own world and our society's place in it.

The GODS, MYTHS AND POETRY SERIES includes myths and legends, history, art and poetry of each culture. Original music written specifically for each project runs in the background giving a more dramatic atmosphere
THE GREEKS
Myths and Poetry Series.

Tracks:
1-Mother Earth: Gea, Chronus/ 2-Zeus, Prometheus/3-Pandora's Box/4-Mount Olympus/5-Poseidon/ 6-The Island of Crete/ 7-The Mediterranean Culture/ 8-Poem by Homer (700 B.C.): From The Odyssey: Ulysses arrives at the isle of the Sirens/ 9-Poem by Menander (343-293 B.C.) "As you walk by..."/ 10-Poem by Sophocles , (495-400 B.C.): "Man"/ 11-Poem by: Leonidas of Tarentum (274 B.C.): "The Wish"/ 12-Poem by Homer: "Achilles Shield"/ 13-Poem by Ariston (B.C.): "The Mice"/ 14-Poem by Leonidas of Tarentum: "Time"/ 15-Music Theme: "Sysiphus"
INDIA

Myths and Poetry series
Tracks:
1-Brahma and the Golden Egg/ 2-Vishnu/ 3-Historical background/ 4-The God Indra/ 5-The Sun -Mitra-/ 6-The Ganges River/ 7-Indian Art/ 8-Poem from the Rig Veda: "Chaos"/ 9-Poem from The Rig Veda: 'Hymn to the Sun"/ 10-A poem from The Mahabharata (composed between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D)/ 11-Excerpt from the poem The Ramayana: "The Death of Ravana"/ 12-A Tamil Poem: "The Bee"/ 13-A poem from a monk (5th century A.D.):"Poem to Nature" / 14-From the Ramayana: "Garuda"15-From the Ramayana: "Triumph of Rama"
THE AZTECS

Tracks:

1-Aztlan: The origin of the Aztecs. 2-Tenochtitlan: the City of The Aztecs/ 3-Coatlicue: Mother of Huitziloptchli/ 4-Tlaloc: God of Water/ 5-Aztec Religion/ 6-Tezcatlipoca: God of Darkness & Quetzalcoatl, God of Light/ 7-Introduction to Poems/ 8-Aztec Poem: "Friendship"/ 9-Poem: "Each Time"/ 10-Poem: "Your Water"/ 11-Poem: "Have They Roots, These Humans?"/ 12-Poem: "Butterflies"/ 13-Poem: "Shall I go?"/ 14-Poem: "My Heart..."/ 15-Poem: "I Weep"/ 16-Poem: "I am Here"/ 17-Poem: "The Dream of a Word"/ 18-The Fall of Tenochtitlan
EGYPT

Tracks:

1-Creation Myths: Num & Atum/ 2-Evolution of Myths in Egypt/ 3-Osiris & Set/ 4-Arts in Egypt/ 5-Poem: from The Book of the Dead: "Hymn to Osiris" 6-Poem: from the Book of the Dead: "First Interrogation"/ 7-Poem: love song from the Middle Kingdom: "In Love"/ 8-Poem: "The Song of the Harper"./ 9-Poem: Love Song: " My Heart"/ Poem: From the Instruction of Amenophis: "The Angry Man"/ 11-Rah and Apep (myths)
NORTH AMERICAN NATIVES


Tracks:
1-Creation Myths -Innuit, Plains, Navajo, Pawnee, Haida- / 2-Tricksters -Coyote, Raven-/ 3-History and migrations of different tribes on the American continent./ 4-"The Toad" -story from the Pueblos tribe-/ 5-Apache song: "Above Us"/ 6-Malecite song: "I Draw Near Our Village"/ 7-Sioux song: "Make Arrows"/ 8-Song from the American South West: "The Roadrunner"/ 9-North West Coast: "Mourning Song for a Lost Child"./10-Navajo song: "Earth's Beauty"/ 11-Cree song: "The Sky Blesses Me"
THE CELTS

Tracks:
1-The legend of the Celts/ The Dagda/ 2-TheTuatha da Dannan. Fovorians. Celtic heroes. Irish books. Archaeology. 3-The God Lugh. Cuchulain. 4-Celtic history and art. Celtic expansion. Female goddesses./ 5-Samhain Festival. Vercingetorix./ 6-Poem: Welsh elegy. 7-Poem: traditional folk song from Scotland./ 8-Poem: "Mael Duin."/ 9-Irish poem (XI century)./ 10-"Poem: Gobon"./ 11-Poem:Tree of Life./ 12-"Poem: Winter"
THE ROMANS
Tracks:
1-Romulus and Remus(foundation of Rome)/ Roman gods/ 2-The Etruscans/ 3-The Sybil/ 4-The Roman Empire/ 5-Poem's introduction/ 6-Poem (excerpt) from The Aeneid: "The Cyclops" (by Virgil 70-19 B.C.)/ 7-From the Aeneid: Mercury and Aeneas (excerpt)/ 8-Poem by Ovid (43 BC-AD18)(excerpt from the Metamorphoses/ 9-Poem by Avianus (6th Century A.D.) "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" / 10-Poem by Catullus (c.84-c.54 BC)./ 11-From the The Gallic War (Julius Caesar (-102? B.C.-44 B.C.)
AUSTRALIA
Tracks:
1-The Whisper/ 2-Dreamtime/ 3-History/ 4-The Kangaroos/5-Songs / 6-Religion
CHINA

Tracks:
1-Tien Hou/ 2-Ying Yang/ 3-Father Heaven/ 4-Moon Goddess/ 5-The Great Wall/ 6-Chinese Art/ 7-Rain cycle

"THE AZTEC CALENDAR"

This recording explores the mythical origins of the Aztec Calendar, as well as astronomical, historical, and social influences. It also explains every detail of the Calendar Stone (housed in the Museo de Antropologia in Mexico City): the Inner Circle -- the God Tonatiuh and the Four Creations; the Circle of Days-- 20 day-symbols, with their corresponding god-patrons, directional references on the compass and human anatomical correspondences. There is musical background which makes the narration more interesting and dramatic.