Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - COSMIC ORDER lyrics

This notion that out of death comes life
Becomes a very important theme in the later
Religions of the world
"He who loses his life" "Shall find it"
Is a spiritualization of this idea
Then when the
First cities appear in Mesopotamia
About 3000 BC large communities grow up
Based on agriculture
Planting has to take place at a certain time
Reaping, a certain time
And there are professional priests
Watching the heavens
To know when those times were
When those times came
And those men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars
And they calculated and recognized
That these planets
Were moving in mathematically


Inevitable courses
And the idea came into being

Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars of a cosmic order
Of mathematical precision
Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars the neighbors now
Were the stars and the planets

On and on as the day comes and goes
The year comes and goes the eons come and go
And the whole society must go into accord
With that
This idea that the human society should
Reproduce the heavenly order comes in
The neighbors now were the stars
And this still lives with us
In our religions
All of our religions have inherited
This motive from the old Babylonian world
It went out with the higher civilizations
To India to China
Even across the Pacific to Mexico and Peru
And you see these great towers
These great temple towers that represent
The mountain of the world
It’s the axis of the world
Around which the world turns
As it does around the pole star
The whole world and society
And the individual in it
Are like the planets moving
In a great course and society
And the individual in it
Are like the planets moving
In a great course

Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars of a cosmic order
Of mathematical precision
Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars the neighbors now
Were the stars and the planets

Now in the 1920s sir Leonard Woolley
Excavating in the graveyards of Ur
Found graves in which there were thirty
And forty people buried all of them in court
Attire who had been buried
Alive when the King
Died or was killed
At a certain time
In the movement of the planets
When the Moon goes down
And the planet Venus along with the Moon
That was the end of an eon
The King and his entire court walked
Into the grave
They were playing a game
Just as the hunters were imitating animals
Just as the planting people
Were imitating plants
So the high civilizations began
With princely aristocratic
Little groups imitating the stars
To the death going all the way
The whole court, at the end of an eon
Went in the grave so that another court
Could come

Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars of a cosmic order
Of mathematical precision
Men became aware
Of the movement of the planets
Through the fixed stars the neighbors now
Were the stars

And it’s a very poetic thing really
The little girls who played the harps
We have these harps
They have been excavated and restored
These little skeleton hands
The girls’ hands
Were still on the harp strings the women
In one of the graves had golden hair ribbons
One girl didn’t have
Her golden hair ribbon on it was found
In her pocket
She had been late for the party
And hadn’t had time to put her ribbon on
Well now, we don’t do that anymore
That kind of action has fallen
Into desuetude nevertheless
The king still wears the golden
Crown of the sun

The sense has gone yet the poetry somehow
Echoes