Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - Grown Out Of MYTH lyrics

All of the high cultures
And low cultures and primitive cultures
And charming simple cultures
And great big enormous ones
Have grown out of myths
They are founded on myths
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration
Now where do these aspirations come from?
They come from a very wonderful
Childlike thing fascination
You know if you wanted to make money today
I'm no economists but I’ll bet
The thing to do
Would be to invest your money
In something like cameras
Things that people play with
Things that they are fascinated by these
Fascinations are the creations of new
Activities
And when we look at the old cultures
We can see

All cultures
Have grown out of myths i said all
Cultures they are founded on myth
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration

And some of it is very strange to see
Indeed

What is most fascinating to begin with
Is one's neighbor particularly
If the neighbor is a
Very strange looking creature
Now think of man in the old days
He was a minority on - on - on the planet
And when he looked at his neighbors
They had four feet they had horns
They had great woolly bodies
They were very strange playmates furthermore
He was eating certain of them
And they were
Rather dangerous he had to
Arrange some kind of arrangement
With his neighbors and we know
That the first religious rites
And the first religious address so to say
Was to animals their neighbors
These were the images of God

All cultures
Have grown out of myths i said all
Cultures they are founded on myth
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration
Aspiration

The animal world was the first inspiration
And the divinities were animal divinities
And not only that but just as kids
When they identify with something
When they are fascinated by something they
Act like it they play it
So the original rituals
The hunting people
Danced buffalo dances they were in covenant
With the animal world
That through this covenant
The animals gave their bodies willingly
To be eaten because
Only the body dies the being
Comes back if you return the blood
Of the animal to the earth
The life is in the blood the earth
Is the mother of life and the animal
Will be back next year

All cultures
Have grown out of myths i said all
Cultures they are founded on myth
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration
Aspiration

People who lived then
In the plant world
The world of the tropics
Where nature was a plant world
They saw something else they saw
That out of rot out of decay
There comes life there comes life
And this notion that out of death
Comes life becomes a very important thing
In the tropical cultures
And it led to what to us is
A very horrible
Pattern of rituals
Rituals of human sacrifice killing people
Letting them rot burying them
With the notion that out of this death
There would come life

All cultures
Have grown out of myths i said all
Cultures they are founded on myth
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration
Aspiration

All cultures
Have grown out of myths i said all
Cultures they are founded on myth
And what these myths have given
Has been inspiration for aspiration
Aspiration