"Firmamentum [Earth Journey] - Sound Myth #11." Dedicated to Steve Tibbetts. By Willi Paul, Mythologist & Planetshifter.com

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I. Original Story

(Septuagint stereoma ; Vulgate, firmamentum )

The notion that the sky was a vast solid dome seems to have been common among the ancient peoples whose ideas of cosmology have come down to us.

Thus the Egyptians conceived the heavens to be an arched iron ceiling from which the stars were suspended by means of cables.

To the Babylonians the sky was an immense dome, forged out of the hardest metal by the hand of Merodach (Marduk) and resting on a wall surrounding the earth.

According to the notion prevalent among the Greeks and Romans, the sky was a great vault of crystal to which the fixed stars were attached, though by some it was held to be of iron or brass.

That the Hebrews entertained similar ideas appears from numerous biblical passages. In the first account of the creation (Genesis 1) we read that God created a firmament to divide the upper or celestial from the lower or terrestrial waters.

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II. Settings & Metaphors in the Sound Myth #11 (Climate Change) version

(a) Hell / Dying Earth / Heaven

(b) Past - Present - Future

(c) Unconsciousness - Semi-consciousness – Consciousness


III. Sound Archetypes

Scene 1 – Hell

Thunder / Fear
Weird Voices - Psychic Aberrations; Paranoia

Scene 2 - Dying Earth

Bells – Human Calming
A Calling for Change

Scene 3 – Heaven

Trumpets
Church-like organ music


IV. Transmutations – consider the segways between scenes

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Seen this reference?

"Sound Myths - Exploring a New Storytelling (Universal) Language" by Mythologist Willi Paul and Planetshifter.com