Aaron Turner said something about Wavering Radiant being about dreams. One of the themes I see reoccurring in the lyrics for Wavering Radiant, which by the way, you can read more here:
is sleeping, but I don't think lucid dreaming is the main focus, even though it is mentioned, and may have something to do with the concept.
What I did find was something called dreamtime, which was an idea by the Aborigines, that a separate but parallel stream of events that occur during our dreams influence the way they lived, their rules and other important aspects of life. It's believe that dreamtime is more real than real life.
This part jumps out at me and seems to be similar to the dreamtime theme.
"embodied by a boy
His voice small and weak
wisp of smoke to be chosen
All by their heads
he places crowns
to witness entire towns
The boy blesses whispers into words
in the painted valleys they await rain "
"embodied by a boy"
I think means that this person is just a humble person this story is describing, and not someone really in any prominent position.
"all by their heads he places crowns"
The meager 'boy', has given 'power' to someone that didn't have any in the first place.
"The boy blesses whispers into words
in the valley they await rain"
I think this part means goes with the part where he gives power, but he is acting as an intermediate or an interpreter ("whispers into words", the 'into words' part, he is dictating it as some kind of stated law) between the dreamtime and real life. The people looking to him 'await rain', or just wait for something he has said will happen that he has no control over (rain), but it could just be an allegory for anything that is out of their hands, that they expect or are in need of.
Aaron Turner said something about Wavering Radiant being about dreams. One of the themes I see reoccurring in the lyrics for Wavering Radiant, which by the way, you can read more here:
is sleeping, but I don't think lucid dreaming is the main focus, even though it is mentioned, and may have something to do with the concept.
What I did find was something called dreamtime, which was an idea by the Aborigines, that a separate but parallel stream of events that occur during our dreams influence the way they lived, their rules and other important aspects of life. It's believe that dreamtime is more real than real life.
This part jumps out at me and seems to be similar to the dreamtime theme.
"embodied by a boy His voice small and weak wisp of smoke to be chosen
All by their heads he places crowns
to witness entire towns
The boy blesses whispers into words in the painted valleys they await rain "
"embodied by a boy" I think means that this person is just a humble person this story is describing, and not someone really in any prominent position.
"all by their heads he places crowns" The meager 'boy', has given 'power' to someone that didn't have any in the first place.
"The boy blesses whispers into words in the valley they await rain"
I think this part means goes with the part where he gives power, but he is acting as an intermediate or an interpreter ("whispers into words", the 'into words' part, he is dictating it as some kind of stated law) between the dreamtime and real life. The people looking to him 'await rain', or just wait for something he has said will happen that he has no control over (rain), but it could just be an allegory for anything that is out of their hands, that they expect or are in need of.
Oh sorry I forgot to give the link to dreamtime: here it is
Oh sorry I forgot to give the link to dreamtime: here it is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime_(mythology)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamtime_(mythology)