The Pole, the incorporation, the Androgyne

The mythical traditions from all over the world speak of an auroral golden age in which Man lived "in the company of the gods": this can perhaps be related to creation "in the image and likeness of God" and to tradition of the Platonic primordial Androgynous, homologue of the kabbalistic Adam Kadmon?

Marius Schneider: "The gods are songs"

The peculiar archetypal-symbolic vision of the German philologist and musicologist Marius Schneider is splendidly enclosed in this first chapter of "La musica primitiva" (1960) in which the divine forces are seen, through the meticulous analysis of the origin myths of the most varied traditions, primarily as "sound powers".