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Stone Mysteries
09:21
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Stone Mysteries
I enter the oval forecourt of megalithic stone walls and temple archways, and step over the flat limestone threshold etched with a snake-like vein. Time draws away and I am swept into the fertile initiatory chambers of the instinctual and wild terrain of the ancient great mother. I open my voice and the sounds emerge pure and simple. Her mystical echo fills me with an aching desire to remember her presence within my flesh.
Vocal Recordings from the Mnajdra Temples, Malta
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Sirens of the Deep
10:21
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Sirens of the Deep
She rises up from the primordial seas to greet me with her Siren Song, leading me into the vast legions of the ancient feminine. Within the shadowy depths of ritual caves, her memory arises from my breath, from my breast, from my womb. From high on the mountaintop, her incantations soothe the long-held pain of separation from body and earth. Passing through ancient theatre court stairways, her buzzing choral strains recall the exuberant and ecstatic celebrations of life that once rang through the air. Lying upon the cave’s stone floor, I return into her embrace with a love song flowing gently through my veins.
Vocal Recordings from the Skoteino Cave, Dikteon Cave, and Phaistos Temple-Palace in Crete; the Acropolis of Patmos Island
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Sounding Dream Woman
08:58
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Sounding Dream Woman
A rumbling clarion call summons me down into the labyrinthian depths of her subterranean home. Trembling with sensations I cannot comprehend, I tip my head back and gaze into a web of red ochre spirals and circles hovering on the ceiling walls above me. My mouth opens and I slide into a reverie of soundmaking that releases my body into her awakening current. Vibrations flood through my opening heart as my voice transforms into a sonic kaleidoscope reverberating throughout the limits of the space, propelling me back into time. My senses enlivened, life-blood pulsing, Sounding Dream Woman reveals her holy ground.
Vocal Recordings from the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta
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Serpentine Dance
10:34
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Serpentine Dance
As tambourines shake and the cicada chorus swells, I begin my dance in a wind swept temple court, stepping into the radiance of the Snake Queen’s immortal presence. Guided by the rhythms of my breath, I sway and spin on the rocky ground as she casts her spell and the sacred knots uncoil from the full length of my spine. Pulsing mantras, nasal modulations and melodic strains swirl forth as an undulating procession of full-breasted priestesses draw me into their ritual dance, their eternal trance. I reunite with my serpentine soul.
Vocal Recordings from Kato Zakros Temple-Palace, Crete
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Temple Muses
08:28
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Temple Muses
The towering stone-layered temple sanctuary enwraps me like an enormous cocoon. Standing before the stone altar, the Muses whisper in my ear: Let the blood run deeply now, Deeply through your veins. Their chants pour forth, rising in vibrant song-chord strands as my body descends into a squat, with heartbeat pounding, to rebirth my wildchild self. I slip into the timeless expanse where sound resides, the juice of her deep red lifeblood singing through me now, returning to comfort and ease aching ancient memories.
Vocal Recordings from the Ġgantija Temples, Gozo Island, Malta
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Into The Hypogeum
07:09
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Into the Hypogeum
Re-entering the womb-like chambers of her moist and resonant earth home, my body and voice effortlessly remember her ‘sound dreaming’ ways. I invoke her many names into the oval oracle hole carved into the wall, and listen back as her vibratory knowledge throbs within my cellular memory. Her message resounds: The Oracle Song of Creation has been opened; the sonic wisdom of Eros is ready to be embraced. In the dark stillness of this elemental holy place, I offer my mantras for an embodied humanity that honours the wild sensual beauty and instinctual sacredness of all life.
Vocal Recordings from the Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta
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Wendalyn Toronto, Ontario
Wendalyn is a composer, vocal performer and sound energy practitioner living in Toronto, Canada. Her compositions are rooted in the contemporary chamber and electroacoustic music traditions, extended vocal practice and soundscape studies. They are inspired by her vision to express the embodied voice of the sacred feminine, the primordial lifeforce energy. ... more
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