i think this is about all human origins, the sacredness of women, and the primal part of women and humanity in gerneral...primal instincts are not something that women are forced into, it is part of their nature, they are typically more comfortable with this primal part of them, the wild part, than men are, and so this is not something to fear, but embrace as women do...and we have to in many ways re-learn that or become re-aquainted with our natural selves...instead of suppressing them as our artifical society has forced us into...
this song is a journey, it shows our origins, that we all owe our lives to women, and the sea as it were is an archetype of maternity, as is the earth...
what happens though is that we are given a picture of our primal origins, of how humanity used to live, close to the earth, and the blinding with skins of animals is a very clever nod to the phenomenon where european traders slowly eroded this closeness to the earth with the greed induced by large demand for furs, and converting the indigenous population into a work force for the sake of animals skins...they forgot their connection to the earth and were taking more than they needed, and became dependent on the foreign economy, eventually succumbing to the social strains amongst themselves and turning on each other even more than had been true in the past...the social and ecological fabric was upset by this and so they were blinded by the animal skins...
then the chorus to me is speaking of people covering hills, in modern social gatherings, centers of culture and activity, maybe at the beach, maybe in parks and other places humans gather for recreation, as if nature were a museum exhibit instead of something we are a part of...
i also think the second part of the chorus, the reference to doors and screams is many fold...going to clubs, amusement parks, and even parties...and maybe even a sexual reference to screams behind motel rooms...both part of the chorus are as if the ancient native were giving a prophecy of where humanity would go to in the future...a bleak and disconnected future
she then points us back to our origins again, how we all come from this vine of entangled geneology, this is very interesting because writing down the daughters is exactly how maternal mitochondrial DNA works...
nature guards this secret, like a weeping willow tree with spanish moss and creatures inhabiting every nook and crannie...a very beautiful reference to point us back to the hidden secrets in nature that we are connected to, if we just recognize that...or again re-aquaint ourselves with that...
the last bit is almost from the point of view of the ancient prophet again, showing how humans have grown accustomed to living inside of frameworks, cages, and restrictions, in the attempt to tame nature instead of be a part of it, it is a perversion of the natural...and finally the last part i think is a reference to even controlling reproductive power in an unnatural way so we do not have offspring, in effect, a self inflicted genocide...based off of our departure from nature and the primal closeness to the earth, something we have lost in trade for a very inefficient mode of living...
this song is as much a lament from an ancient sage's point of view as it is anything else...
i think this is about all human origins, the sacredness of women, and the primal part of women and humanity in gerneral...primal instincts are not something that women are forced into, it is part of their nature, they are typically more comfortable with this primal part of them, the wild part, than men are, and so this is not something to fear, but embrace as women do...and we have to in many ways re-learn that or become re-aquainted with our natural selves...instead of suppressing them as our artifical society has forced us into...
this song is a journey, it shows our origins, that we all owe our lives to women, and the sea as it were is an archetype of maternity, as is the earth...
what happens though is that we are given a picture of our primal origins, of how humanity used to live, close to the earth, and the blinding with skins of animals is a very clever nod to the phenomenon where european traders slowly eroded this closeness to the earth with the greed induced by large demand for furs, and converting the indigenous population into a work force for the sake of animals skins...they forgot their connection to the earth and were taking more than they needed, and became dependent on the foreign economy, eventually succumbing to the social strains amongst themselves and turning on each other even more than had been true in the past...the social and ecological fabric was upset by this and so they were blinded by the animal skins...
then the chorus to me is speaking of people covering hills, in modern social gatherings, centers of culture and activity, maybe at the beach, maybe in parks and other places humans gather for recreation, as if nature were a museum exhibit instead of something we are a part of...
i also think the second part of the chorus, the reference to doors and screams is many fold...going to clubs, amusement parks, and even parties...and maybe even a sexual reference to screams behind motel rooms...both part of the chorus are as if the ancient native were giving a prophecy of where humanity would go to in the future...a bleak and disconnected future
she then points us back to our origins again, how we all come from this vine of entangled geneology, this is very interesting because writing down the daughters is exactly how maternal mitochondrial DNA works...
nature guards this secret, like a weeping willow tree with spanish moss and creatures inhabiting every nook and crannie...a very beautiful reference to point us back to the hidden secrets in nature that we are connected to, if we just recognize that...or again re-aquaint ourselves with that...
the last bit is almost from the point of view of the ancient prophet again, showing how humans have grown accustomed to living inside of frameworks, cages, and restrictions, in the attempt to tame nature instead of be a part of it, it is a perversion of the natural...and finally the last part i think is a reference to even controlling reproductive power in an unnatural way so we do not have offspring, in effect, a self inflicted genocide...based off of our departure from nature and the primal closeness to the earth, something we have lost in trade for a very inefficient mode of living...
this song is as much a lament from an ancient sage's point of view as it is anything else...