Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - What is this MYSTERY? (Songs of Mythology) lyrics

Many of you I’m sure
Have heard the saying that
Mythology is other people’s religions

Now I am going to ask you
To put yourself in other people’s shoes
And have a look at your own as mythology
As mythology

What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?

Nietzsche has said
"This is the age of comparisons"
It works on all levels

And in the realm of
What I’m calling "mythology"
Which many people call "religions"
There are cross-influences operating today
That would have been thought impossible
A hundred years ago
Furthermore, it is good to recall
To remember that our cultures
And our races are very, very late arrivals
In the history of the human species
And we already have very interesting
Evidence
Of religious, or mythological practices
In races long antedating ours
For instance in the high Alps
There were discovered in the (19) 20s in
Very small caves right below
The ice level of the glaciers little shrines
Containing the skulls of cave bears
Now during the course of the last glaciation
The Würmglacial period
Those caves were covered with ice
No one could have gone there
And after The time of that glaciation
There were no cave bears in the world
So these little shrines
With these cave bear skulls and little fires
And little
Instruments of showing that there had been
Worship practice there
Date from 200, 000 years ago
200, 000 years ago

What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery?

What is this mystery?

Each of us has been brought up
In some tradition that has it's imagery
Of that mystery but the point I want to
Start out with is that in the human heart
And in the human mind no matter what
The race the culture
The language the tradition
There is this sense
Or at least the possibility
Of experiencing the sense of a mystery
And an awesome mystery and a very
Terrifying mystery inhabiting the whole
Universe the very
Mystery of being
Itself
And here in these very early little signs
These very early shrines
We have the evidence
Of man 200, 000 years ago bowing
And asking for something
And devoting themselves to something
In this way of religion which we continue
To know in this aspect
That inflection and that other
Throughout the world today

What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? That makes the
Human species bow
Before some sign of mystery?
What is this mystery? What is this mystery?