RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?chthon01.wav=chthonic

It's much closer to "tha-nick"

xo

Ross

Agent Starchild wrote:
> Chthonic from what I understand is pronounced kah-tah-nick.  I
> discovered the word when writing a term paper about the Greek god
> Dionysus.  Dionysus is the heir of the chthonic lineage starting with
> the Titans whose immediate ancestor is his mother Hecate.  The
> chthonic gods are contantly in clash with the Olympian gods which is
> the source of the ambiguity with which Greeks view Dionysus, the
> unpredictable and dangerous god of wine and revelry.
>
> Even more interesting is the evolution of the myth of Hecate.  In
> pre-Olympian Greek texts, she is understood as the goddess of
> fertility and the "mother-sister of the youth."  She becomes demonized
> to make way for the patriarchal system of order in Olympian mythology.
>  People went to the crossroads to wait for Hecate.  She would manifest
> herself carrying three torches or with three large wolves.  It's
> sometimes theorized that Cerberus, the guardian of Hades, is an
> evolution of Hecate and her wolves.
>
> So all this talk about "going down to the crossroads" to sell your
> soul to the devil like Robert Johnson probably has its root in Hecate,
> who wasn't a devil, just a besmirched goddess who had to be called a
> witch to justify patriarchal dominance.  The "witching" of the Goddess
> has occured in a number of cultures that have gone through a
> transformation from matriarchy to patriarchy.  Morgan la Fey, for whom
> I am named, is a benevolent mother goddess in Celtic myth and an evil
> sorceress in the Christian Arthurian legends.
>
> My record label and promotion company is devoted to the subversion of
> the patriarchal order through music which comes from the deep place
> within the Earth that is at the same time ancient and original.
>
> Thanks for your interest,
> Morgan Guyton
> Chthonic Art Productions
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