LONG AGO Orpheus lived. He lived in the heart of the first musician, and in the songs that came of them, the melodies that remain in the very air we breathe, even if we do not remember them. Something remains of every vibration in every universe in every song and every event in the world. Orpheus lives on.
Now Orpheus went with the civilizations of the world, living in them and through the people, especially in those talented and creative, and those who listened and heard. But mostly after Orpheus was born through the sound and light of God, he became a man in each place, living through the time and ways of the people as best he could, and becoming something of a myth to those who sensed him, but did not know him well. Orpheus alone knew what he was, and the muse sings through him, like the sound and light that lives in each man, and without which, none could exist.
Orpheus has walked the world, in each era, and time, through single individuals who may not even have realized all that was being created and done through them. The story of the world is the story of the one, but the one is like the tree with a million limbs. So the one seed has flourished, from Elysium to Eden, and from Greece to the Present time. And Orpheus still walks among us.
Orpheus life is a mystery, but we may track the one Orpheus through the history of the music, and the songs, and the events of our times. Orpheus was alive in New York during the Brill Building songwriters and Carole King, and when Dylan and Hendrix and still when Ono and Lennon came, or during the Fillmore years, and he was in England during Apple and the Beatles, and saw Donovan's flowers in Royal Albert Hall. He was in California with Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, and the entire Santana overture.
UNSEEN ORPHEUS and the FIVE DEATH'S
It was then the dark mood of Rock took over, in Punk, and Metal times, Disco and Dearth alike, Pop control and U2 battles, the times when Orpheus seem to have disappeared. He was said to have been seen in Island tropical sunsets, and writing music about music and the sound and light, on the Beaches of Hawaii, or in the high desert of the west. He may have been in Texas as Country music rose, and in Arizona when Stevie Nicks did Trouble in Shangri La. His walls may have been covered with the history of Music, for a time, while alone and unknown, he still was full of Joy.
But Orpheus too has seen a lot of death, as the day the music died, in New York in 71with disciples Jimi and James and Janis and Duane, the All-man that was taken away. He was living also in the south at Rock's third death, when Elvis took his life, as Disco flourished, and pop media power took control. (Rock's first death was Buddy Holly and the three on the plane in 59"). He was also relative as John Lennon fell as Rock's fourth death occured, and he slept near the place where the killer had dwelled. He was close to South carolina when James Brown slipped, for this is true that each time and breath is another step in the rise and fall, life after life. For Orpheus lives on even as the music died and lived so many times, even in the same lifetime.
It is possible Orpheus returned to the mainland, and traveled, and lived again as the Music revived, while the estranged one lived near Orpheus lived in the northwest and Malibu Canyon, near as Dylan himself returned to music and film just down the beach, and River Pheonix' ultimately passing in Johnny Depp's club. He was on the coast during Rock's fifth death by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. But Orpheus had nothing to do with any of these things, only that he was near, channeling to those who could hear, and who heard the sound current flowing in them, to live life, not death, and find a way in the spirit through its' expression which is impossible to repeat, though many have tried, even as a few boldly go where none have before. Orpheus takes his hat to each and all, grateful for them, just as when he hears any of the songs.
"Every song you hear comes back to you returned
if you learn love of life, you will learn,
to just imagine, and in a moment, you will see,
you have risen above this world, and you can be,
we together we can be, on this wave of light and sound!"
(lyrics from the song Light and Sound, paneagle, eagleworks, copyright, @2000)
THE SOUND REMAINS THE SAME
Now today we have "American Idol", and "So you think you can Dance", to comprise vehicles for music and the dance of life in sound and light. But Orpheus knows he like many now are channels again for this eternal sweet song, from Jewel to Eminen, to Jack Johnson or John Mayer. Each fallen angel perhaps, so many unseen, something so often in the way of the true creativity. They may say it is money, or power, or greed or control, each a God itself, each is a channel as best they can be. That is the world, and the world is as it is. But Orpheus knows this well. This is not so much loss, but a tool and a way. To gain the renewing spirit of light within them, so they may once again become liberated and free, as the original in the nation, or the world. The Orpheus song plays in the Orpheum theatre of life, especially in the sound of HU, that speaks to the world each day within Soul, within us as sound and light.
Where Orpheus is, his spirit lives. Rock was born in the 50's and the 60 year cycle is going to be complete in this next decade. What music will arrive? What shall
express the new incarnation of Orpheus alive? Who can say how many will now become pure channels for its' love, this spirit reality, that Orpheus like all true Gods, maintain? It has nothing to do with power, and so it shall remain.
The power of music is in love. And for this, we are all beyond repair. Orpheus may one day not exist, and in this possibility, what Orpheus is, must ever be. Because without him, we are so far the less, that all would end. So the song goes on forever, and each day comes another sun, and another SOL, and the birth of another life. As Orpheus' creations live, and brings us to see, we are the poet or pan the piper and the player, each a story in itself, to then see we become what we cause to effect. This endless prayer is one of those songs to sing.
