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Ancient Mother
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Price: $12.32
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 7187951017264
Label: Spring Hill
Manufacturer: Spring Hill
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Spring Hill
Release Date: 1994-07-26
Studio: Spring Hill
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Customer reviews of Ancient Mother
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Summary: A must have for chant, trance, or ritual work!
Comment: This is one of the few CDs on my list of must haves for chant, trance, or ritual work. The "Ancient Mother" track is the absolute best. With 5 overlaying tracks of the surf, the harp, the most complete goddess name chant I have ever heard (at least 30 names), an ethereal humming and the most powerfully inspirational words: "Ancient mother I hear you calling, Ancient mother I hear your song," this CD is easily worth it just for this one track alone. More than half of the rest of the tracks on this CD may not appeal to "western" ears as this is truly a world view of the Ancient Mother, with singing chanting from African, Indian, and Hawaiian sources.
I am conflicted what to think of the "reclaiming" of the 23rd Psalm. Even though it is beautiful poetry in its own rite, I say leave the patriarchal monotheists liturgy alone so we may come up with our own. Changing the word father to mother everywhere it exists in this poem seems almost like cheating.
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Summary: Was a little disappointed.
Comment: The sound quality was not as good as I had hoped, I found myself having to crank the volume on my cd player, to double what I would on any other cd to even hear it. However that being said, the music itself was beautiful, even though it was quiet. I do have some favorites; "the ancient mother", "may the circle be open" and "the circle is cast".
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Summary: A Beautiful Variety
Comment: The rafter-shaking gospel version of "A Circle Is Cast" is worth the entire purchase price of this CD. If you end up playing the rest of it, more's the better. The music embraces a diversity of styles and moods, from pure, fine chorale to more raw and primal chants. Whether or not you love every single song in this eclectic mix, you will definitely find something that you will play over and over. Some songs are in English and you can sing along, others are not but definitely "hummable." I've recommended this to numerous people in our pagan circle and everyone has given it a thumbs up.
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Summary: great goddess CD
Comment: I love this CD, I have had it for years (I had it on tape before I got the CD if that tells you anything) and I never get tired of it. Yemaya is one of my favorite songs of all time!
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Summary: Spend sacred moments with Goddess
Comment: I've read people say Goddess is not Christian, to which I have to reply Goddess transcends all religions. Mother Mary happens to be the Goddess that has been worshiped the most throughout the globe, much more than any other Goddess, She is the Magna Mater today. As such, She is Sophia, and She is also an expression of the Virgin and the Mother (First and second persons in the Goddess Trinity).
Having said that, Ancient Mother is a tapestry, a mosaic of Goddess music from the Wiccan and Pagan, Polynesian, Native American, African, Hindu, and Christian traditions. Ancient Mother, Yemaya, and Circle is Cast can be used in groups, and I have used them, but most of the other songs are best used in private meditation, worship, and prayer to Her Spirit.
There is a lot of beauty and magic in the first track, Ancient Mother. Yemayá is traditional Santeria / Ifa music, and those who aren't familiar may not know this but its drumming rhythm is meant to imitate the tides, the back and forth movement of Yemaya's tides, for Yemaya is the Lady of the Seas.
Viridissima Virga is simply paganism clothed in monastic guise: the boundaries between Christian and Pagan are blurred entirely in the verbiage of this Gregorian chant. The music is for worship. Enjoy!
Goddess bless.
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