10-07-2016, 03:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2016, 03:47 AM by Dekalb_Blues.)
(10-03-2016, 08:26 PM)herald Wrote: link to slideshow^^ ^^
"Birds" by Adrian Belew, from Inner Revolution,
and "Birdland" by Weather Report on This is Jazz Vol. 10, from Warner.
A hundred bird images from Beautiful Birds Facebook page.
[BTW, the unique dance-styling we see here of Steve Wahrer, the Trashmen's drummer and vocalist, is lovingly carried on in this vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMbu5qYuts (the fellow on the left)]
The superorganismic Simurgh in Sufi poetry:
Decoration outside of Nadir Divan-Beghi madrasah, Bukhara
In classical and modern Persian literature the Simorḡ is frequently mentioned, particularly as a metaphor for God in Sufi mysticism. In the 12th century Conference of the Birds,* Iranian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar wrote of a band of thirty pilgrim birds ("si morgh" in Persian) in search of the Simurgh. In the poem, the birds of the world gather to decide who is to be their king, as they have none. The hoopoe--
--the wisest of them all, suggests that they should find the legendary Simorgh, a mythical Persian bird roughly equivalent to the western phoenix. The hoopoe leads the birds, each of whom represent a human fault which prevents man from attaining enlightenment. When the group of thirty birds finally (after many and many a trial and tribulation, traversing seven realms' worth of increasingly intense experiences) reach the dwelling place of the Simorgh, all they find is a lake in which they see... their own reflection.
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conference_of_the_Birds
A modern cartoon adaptation of this teaching-story:
Regarding a recent edition of this almost 900-year-old work:
Gor blimey, some bloody bird, that 'un!