I know next to nothing about them, but I'm still fascinated by the "Mystery Religions" of ancient Rome and Greece ... by the so-called "Mysterian" approach to the riddle of consciousness ... and by poetry and music and philosophy that wrestle with deep enigmas. Recently a Sarah McLachlan song grabbed my ear; it's called "Building a Mystery" and begins:
| You come out at night That's when the energy comes And the dark side's light And the vampires roam You strut your rasta wear And your suicide poem And a cross from a faith That died before Jesus came You're building a mystery ... |
What does it mean? I have no idea!
(then there's the bizarre and funny Japanese movie The Mysterians, with its badly-translated-into-English sountrack that includes a reference to a "little star" when they meant to say "asteroid"; see also TheMysterians (2 Aug 1999), ColinMcGinn (30 Oct 2003), ManOfMystery (12 Aug 2004), ...)
TopicFaith - TopicArt - TopicLife - TopicMind - 2005-02-08
(correlates: Extraordinary Gentlemen, FreudianParalysis, GreatestInvention, ...)