Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - The First Function of Mythology lyrics

Consciousness has other notions
Of how things ought to be what virtue is
And so on and so on

One of the problems
That man has to face
Is reconciling himself to the foundations
Of his own existence

And this is the first function
Of mythology and this
Is the first function of mythology
That reconciliation of consciousness
With the mystery of being and this
Is the first function of mythology
Not criticizing it
Shakespeare
In his definition of art in Hamlet
Where he says "Art"
"Holds the mirror up to nature" is a perfect
Definition i would say
Of the first function
Of mythology

When you hold the mirror up to your self
Your consciousness becomes aware of
Its support
What it is what it is
That it is supporting it you may be shocked
At what you see you may be greatly pleased
But one way or another you become aware
Of yourself your consciousness becomes aware
Of that darkness that being
Which came into being out of darkness
And which is it's own support

And this is the first function
Of mythology and this
Is the first function of mythology
That reconciliation of consciousness
With the mystery of being and this
Is the first function of mythology

And the realization of their mystery
As something that consciousness
Is not going to be able to criticize
Not even going to be able to elucidate
Not even going to be able to name
It is something beyond naming
Beyond all definitions
That is the first point
And when that is lost one loses
This sense of awe
Which Goethe calls, "The best thing in man"
The sense of gratitude for one's
Privilege of having
This
Center of consciousness aware of these things

And this is the first function
Of mythology and this
Is the first function of mythology
That reconciliation of consciousness
With the mystery of being and this
Is the first function of mythology