Adventures in Urban Sociology

Saturday, February 16, 2008

Thoth

It is hard for me to figure out Thoth although in reading what Festad is it almost sounds like he has taken work from the Bible and used different names to talk about the 7 day creation of the world, the crystal broke could symbolize the apple, etc. I will try to grasp what he is about since I do not read or watch movies that he has found fulfilling in regard to his life.

Since he enjoys playing his music in the tunnels we could superimpose his image inside of a Chinese underground tunnel in Oklahoma City. Although his music does not have the Chinese sound that I think of he does have a calmness about him and a spirituality that may come from that culture.

I decided to close my eyes and listen to his music and what he played sounded much like what my yoga teacher plays on her CD during yoga. Much of it is a soothing sound that can become rather repetitive. This is supposedly to give you a calming effect. His music reminds me when we reach for the heavens with are arms up and hands together in prayer giving thanks for what we have.

His dress reminded me of a cross between Indian, with the bells on his ankles, and was that a feather on his head? And a little Aztec? I am not sure. In one of the pictures he has three women sitting by him and the way he sits he reminds me of a yoga master. I wonder if he was in a spirtual prayer mode. I do believe that he does or did have a hard time trying to identify himself because of his ethnic heritage of his parents and this is the way he has found himself. I wish that a heritage could be based on talent because since both of his parents are musicians he definitely has their genes and his ethinicity would be musician/creator.

You can tell he has passion for what he does but I do not think that you can define him as one culture but as of a mixture of cultures which have made him Thoth.

1 comment:

Julie Cowgill said...

In response to the lack of heritage for musicians.

Musicians definitely constitute a subculture (of course, different types of musicians, jazz, new age, etc. all could be referred to as subcultures or in some cases, a counterculture). Musicians possess the "ingredients" for a subculture:
1) Their values and practices differ from (but are not typically in opposition to) dominant culture.
2) They possess an argot or specialized language to communicate.