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I've listened to Popol Vuh's Bruder Des Schattens-Sohne Des Lichts and Nosferatu soundtrack albums a lot but finally digging deeper into their catalogue with these two albums. Any recommendations?
#PopolVuh #Germanmusic #Krautrock #ambientmusic #Electronicmusic #Moog #DiskUnion #Nosferatu
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Mes écoutes de la semaine du 09 February 2026
#OrenAmbarchi, #CrysCole, #KeithRowe, #FéliciaAtkinson, #BardoPond, #TheBartlebees, #Bégayer, #NicolaeBrînduş, #Clogs, #DaleCooperQuartetAndTheDictaphones, #DedalusEnsemble, #Ensemble0, #ExodusSexus, #France, #Hydroplane, #Hyperculte, #TheIcicleWorks, #Jessamine, #ChuckJohnson, #Metrotone, #TheeOhSees, #Pavement, #PeterParkerExperience, #PopolVuh, #ReignOfFerns, #TonyRolando, #RomeoSuspect, #Stereolab, #SunburnedHandOfTheMan, #Supersilent, #Swell, #TheoryOfGhosts, #Various, #Vindicatrix, #FloraYinWong, #SébastienRoux
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Djong Yun - Ave Maria (1972)
Ripubblicato come bonus nella ristampa del 2004 dell'album Hosianna Mantra dei Popol Vuhhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QFps8LkoI8&list=RD1QFps8LkoI8&start_radio=1
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Popol Vuh - "Herz aus Glas" OST (1977)
#NowPlaying #PopolVuh #FlorianFricke #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords
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🟡 Creation Popol Vuh K?iche? Maya 1931 Diego Rivera
#CreationMyths, #DiegoRivera, #Guatemala, #Indigenous, #Kiche, #Maya, #Mayan, #PopolVuh
Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed
Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → https://bigplanetprints.com/go/v1pKYk -
Vendredi / Popol Vuh / In Den Garten Pharaohs, reissue. #popolvuh #indengartenpharaos #krautrock #vinyl #transatrecordshop #confortmoderne #poitiers
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Oggi è #BandcampFriday. È quindi il momento più propizio per supportare i musicisti e compositori di nicchia -- quelli che fanno musica per la musica; quelli che, come diceva Zappa, non hanno alcun potenziale commerciale.
Tra questi ci sono anche io. Faccio musica "strana", non convenzionale, che nasce dentro di me per un bisogno personale di esprimere liberamente quel che musicalmente "sono". Ne vien fuori un misto di jazz, elementi neoclassici, avant-pop. Se vi va di ascoltarne qualcosa, ecco il mio ultimo lavoro, "K'ux":
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/kux
Tutta la mia musica è su #Bandcamp e si può ascoltare e scaricare da https://eidon.bandcamp.com/. Spero vi piaccia e magari possa regalarvi qualche emozione.
#avantpop #jazz #neoclassical #PopolVuh #maya
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It's #BandcampFriday And here's my latest album, "K'ux":
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/kux
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If you want to support musicians, this is the right moment to buy music from Bandcamp. So, visit Bandcamp pages. Subscribe to bandcamper's pages. Buy their music.
One such site is mine: https://eidon.bandcamp.com/. All of my music is name-your-price. You can download all of my albums, including my latest one, totally for free if you want.
Here's my latest album, "K'ux":
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My latest work. K'UX
“The Crux of the Biscuit is the apostrophe”. (Frank Zappa)
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Ecco il mio ultimo lavoro, K'ux. Sedici brani per il mio sedicesimo album. Un misto di jazz, musica neoclassica e avant-pop. Spero che vi piaccia quanto è piaciuto a me comporlo.
“K'ux si riferisce al cuore come alla fonte dello 'spirito vitale' di una cosa, o ciò che le dà vita. Secondo il dizionario di Coto, si ritiene che sia anche il centro del pensiero e dell'immaginazione”. (Popol Vuh: Libro Sacro del Popolo Quiché Maya, di AJ Christenson)
“The Crux of the Biscuit is the apostrophe”. (Frank Zappa)
https://eidon.bandcamp.com/album/kux
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Christianity was formally established in Guatemala in 1534 under Bishop Francisco Marroquín, who sent out priests with portable altars to the various highland Maya towns and
villages in an effort to baptize the indigenous population and to destroy any remnants of “idolatry” that they might find. Ancient temples, as well as the carved and painted images which they contained, were systematically destroyed, their stones used to build Christian churches. Missionaries singled out hieroglyphic codices for destruction in an effort to protect
the Indians from their former religious beliefs. Alonso de Zorita wrote that in 1540 he saw numerous such books in the Guatemalan highlands which “recorded their history for more
than eight hundred years back, and which were interpreted for me by very ancient Indians”
(Zorita 1963, 271-2).Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas lamented that when found, such books were
destroyed:These books were seen by our clergy, and even I saw part of those which were burned by the monks, apparently because they thought [they] might harm the Indians in matters
concerning religion, since at that time they were at the beginning of their conversion. (Las Casas 1958, 346)Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People
by AJ Christenson
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The K'ux of the Biscuit
Was Frank Zappa aware that, in the Popol Vuh, K'ux refers to "the heart as the source of the “vital spirit” of a thing, or that which gives it life"?
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For the ancient Aztecs the highest form of sacred communication was poetry, what they called xochicuicatl (“flower-song”). These were delicately beautiful hymns meant to be recited orally, often to musical accompaniment.
From within the heavens they come,
The beautiful flowers, the beautiful songs.
Our longing spoils them,
Our inventiveness makes them lose their fragrance.
(León-Portilla 1980, 257)Such songs exist only at the moment of their performance, their sound hanging briefly in the air, then fading to silence. It is only when they are spoken that they reveal their divine origin, transforming the poet into a messenger of deity:
Now I am going to forge songs,
Make a stem flowering with songs,
Oh my friends!
God has sent me as a messenger.
I am transformed into a poem.
(León-Portilla 1969, 80)Most poems were learned by heart and were lost forever if forgotten. Thus Aztec poetry had no permanent reality of its own, no more than a dream.
Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People
by AJ Christenson
https://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf -
"Quichés in that area had, of course, seen documents and books like the Bible written in
Spanish but had little conception at that time that it was possible to use phonetic letters to
record their own language. This is a great tragedy, because until about five hundred years
ago the Maya were the most literate people in the Americas, preserving their history and
culture with a sophisticated hieroglyphic script in hundreds of folded screen books. The
Spanish conquest in the early sixteenth century was a devastating blow to Maya literacy in
Mexico and Guatemala. Christian missionaries burned great numbers of hieroglyphic texts in
an attempt to eradicate indigenous religious practices. Native scribes were singled out for
persecution to such an extent that within one hundred years, the art of hieroglyphic writing
had virtually disappeared from among the Maya people."Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Quiché Maya People
by AJ Christenson
https://www.mesoweb.com/publications/Christenson/PopolVuh.pdf -
"With the ascent of Hunahpu and Xbalanque the Popol Vuh returns to the problem the gods confronted at the beginning: the making of beings who will walk, work, talk, and pray in an articulate manner. The account of their fourth and final attempt at a solution is a flashback, since it takes us to a time when the sun had not yet appeared. As we have already seen, the gods failed when they tried using mud and then wood as the materials for the human body, but now they get news of a mountain filled with yellow corn and white corn, discovered by the fox, coyote, parrot, and crow (at the beginning of Part Four). Xmucane grinds the corn from this mountain very finely, and the flour, mixed with the water she rinses her hands with, provides the substance for human flesh, just as the ground bone thrown in the river by the Xibalbans becomes the substance for the rebirth of her grandsons. The first people to be modeled from the corn dough are four men named Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Mahucutah, and True Jaguar. They are the first four heads of Quiche patrilineages; as in the case of the men who occupy such positions today, they are called "mother-fathers," since in ritual matters they serve as symbolic androgynous parents to everyone in their respective lineages.
This time the beings shaped by the gods are everything they hoped for and more: not only do the first four men pray to their makers, but they have perfect vision and therefore perfect knowledge. The gods are alarmed that beings who were merely manufactured by them should have divine powers, so they decide, after their usual dialogue, to put a fog on human eyes."(Popol Vuh)
1) I find it very interesting that the term used here is not "father" or "mother", but one which combines both.
2) Also very interesting that the ability to "clearly see" is seen as a divine power, as it is the case in Leibniz in his Monadology
3) The passage obviously makes one think of the Tree of Knowledge. The gods do not want their Creatures to clearly see and understand. -
#networklayers #popolvuh
When Hunahpu and Xbalanque begin playing ball at the Great Abyss they disturb the lords of Xibalba, just like their father and uncle before them. Once again the lords send a summons, but this time the messengers go to Xmucane, telling her that the twins must present themselves in seven days. She sends a louse to relay the message to her grandsons, but the louse is swallowed by a toad, the toad by a snake, and the snake by a falcon. The falcon arrives over the ball court and the twins shoot him in the eye. They cure his eye with gum from their ball, which is why the laughing falcon now has a black patch around the eye. The falcon vomits the snake, who vomits the toad, who still has the louse in his mouth, and the louse recites the message, quoting what Xmucane told him when she quoted what the owls told her when they quoted what the lords of Xibalba told them to say.(This passage of the Popol Vuh made me think of network protocols and their packets being embedded in payloads of other packets.)
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Maya: Brüderpaare als Menschenopfer. Gebeine von Kinderopfern in Chichén Itzá liefern neue Einblicke in Religion und Ritale. #Maya #Menschenopfer #ChichenItza #Kinderopfer #PopolVuh #Archaeologie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/archaeologie/maya-bruederpaare-als-menschenopfer/ -
One last mash-up for the road: Gurdjieffian goofiness exemplified by Crayon Popol Vuh.
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#OnThisDate, March 13, Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner [The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner] (Werner #Herzog, 1974) is the #FilmDuJour. #WernerHerzog #WalterSteiner #WestGermany #PopolVuh #sports #documentary #film #ShortFilm #cinema #CineMastodon @film #1970s ★★★★☆
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Popol Vuh - "Einsjäger & Siebenjäger" (1974)
I think of this as the more "rock" sibling of "Hosianna Mantra".
#NowPlaying #PopolVuh #FlorianFricke #DanielFichelscher #DjongYun #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
