Inanna, also spelled Inana ([pronunciation?]; Sumerian sign form DINANNA; Akkadian sign form DINANNA ) is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. Alternative Sumerian names include Innin, Ennin, Ninnin, Ninni, Ninanna, Ninnar, Innina, Ennina, Irnina, Innini, Nana and Nin. These names are commonly derived from an earlier Nin-ana "lady of the sky", although Gelb (1960) presented the suggestion that the oldest form is Innin (DINNIN) and that Ninni, Nin-anna and Irnina are independent goddesses in origin. Her Akkadian counterpart is Ishtar.
Inanna can be considered the most prominent female deity in ancient Mesopotamia. As early as the Uruk period (ca. 4000 to 3100 BC), Inanna was associated with the city of Uruk. The famous Uruk Vase (found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period) depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler. This figure was ornately dressed for a divine marriage, and attended by a servant. The female figure holds the symbol of the two twisted reeds of the doorpost, signifying Inanna behind her, while the male figure holds a box and stack of bowls, the later cuneiform sign signifying En, or high priest of the temple. Especially in the Uruk period, the symbol of a ring-headed doorpost is associated with Inanna.
Armand Amar (born 1953) is an Israeli-born French composer, who grew up in Morocco. Amar won the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Le Concert (Radu Mihaileanu) in 2010. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Le Concert (Radu Mihaileanu).
Amar was born in Jerusalem, to an Israeli mother and a Jewish-Moroccan father with a French passport. As a child, he immigrated to Morocco with his father. In 1968, he began playing the congas. He also practiced the tabla and the zarb in the following years.
In 1976 he met South African choreographer Peter Goss, who introduced him to dance. In the subsequent years, he worked with a number of choreographers in contemporary dance.
His works are focused particularly on Eastern music. He is the author of several ballets and soundtracks films such as Get up and walk, The Trail, Indigenous, Live and Become, The First Cry, Earth from Heaven and Home. He has also collaborated twice with Costa Gavras, scoring Amen. and The Ax.
Glen Velez is an American percussionist, vocalist, and composer, specializing in frame drums from around the world. He is largely responsible for the increasing popularity of frame drums in the United States and around the world.
Of Mexican American ancestry, Velez grew up in Texas but relocated to New York City in 1967 or 1968.[1] He began by playing jazz on the drum set but soon gravitated to hand drums from around the world (frame drums in particular), seeking out teachers from many different musical traditions. Among the many instruments Velez favors in his work are the Irish bodhrán, the Brazilian pandeiro, the Arabic riq, the North African bendir, and the Azerbaijani ghaval. Although these instruments are similar in construction they all have their own characteristic playing techniques. Velez has studied each instrument traditionally, but has also developed his own cross-cultural musical vocabulary, mixing and adapting techniques from various cultures and developing new ones (such as playing the bodhrán with brushes). Velez has been influential in the growing international interest in frame drums and many younger players now use his techniques.
Carolyn Carlson (born 1943) is an American contemporary dance choreographer, performer, and poet. She is of Finnish descent.
She is the director of the Centre Chorégraphique National in Roubaix and of the Atelier de Paris at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes in Paris.
She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.
She initially studied dance at the San Francisco School of Ballet and at Utah University. In 1965 she joined the Alwin Nikolaïs dance company in New York becoming an outstanding dancer of the company.
In 1968 she won the International Dance Festival in Paris as Best Dancer (Meilleur Danseur).
In 1971 she joined the Anne Béranger dance company and in 1972 she presented Rituel pour un rêve mort at the Avignon Festival. Successively she was invited to join the London School of Contemporary Dance as an instructor, performer and choreographer.
In 1974 she met Rolf Liebermann and was invited to join the Opéra de Paris as a choreographer.
In 1975 she directed the Groupe de Recherches Théâtrales (GRTOP). Creations of this period include Density 21,5 ; The Architects ; This, that and the other; Slow, heavy and blue. Beginning 1974 she taught her improvisation and composition techniques in masterclasses held at the rotonde of the Opéra.
over the skies and sea my love
over the sky and sea
riding the crest of winds
above bringing her back to me
into the starlit sea my love
into the moonlit sea
riding the crest of winds above
i'm begging you stay with me
would you walk ten miles with me my love
would you walk the skies with me
would you walk ten miles with me my love
over the skies and sea my love
over the sky and sea
riding the crest of winds above
bringing her back to me
into the starlit sea my love
into the moonlit sea
riding the crest of winds above
i'm begging you stay with me
would you walk ten miles with me my love
would you walk the skies with me
would you walk ten miles with me my love
inanna
Chaos, the oldest lie of madness
The perfect sin within the thought of men
Sickening souls in some forsaken land
The end begins
Bid your farewell to a deceased age
Failure of human kind
Deceived by his treacherous presence
Lambs will march to the inevitable
False gods guide us to perdition
Victims of some sick
Psychological warfare
In their hands, the gift of life
Higher iniquity, show us the ways of doom
Macabre technology, bringer of an ancient grief
Raping minds
Crushing the old domain
Thought decay, endless lack of morals
The arrogance of a fake divinity
Freedom now reduced to ashes
Morbid ways of a slow, demented…
Mind surgery
Manipulated by the darkest presages
Afflicted beings
Crushed by the scourge of humility
The will of human race, consumed
A terrible realm
They are coming, the winds of death
Millions of lives will cease inside the firestorm
Aircraft of doom, artillery of hatred
Gathered to pray the extinction cult
Megaton chants
Will be vomited from the skies
Courage is just a word
Within the shrapnel of a thousand bombs
Sickness and hunger, are invocated by the atomic psalm
Great decisions will be made in the altar of shame
The new messiah has fall in a seizure of power
His pitiful soul's resurrected and ascended
Our leader have claudicated
Hidden behind the veil of all their lies
Realize the power is approaching
Annihilate and eliminate from the face of the earth
Forced into a meaningless… pathetic age!!!
The cleansing has begun, with iron and fire you will be
blessed
New times are coming, to prevail upon of all you
Behold the fears of those who once commanded you
The pestilence of a shattered illusion
Those who reign on you
Must be punished in blasphemy and pain
A sign of birth
The nuclear retaliation
Your lies and crimes, erased from history
Unworthy words claiming for mercy
I am trapped in the tide, drifted by the grief of time
Our ship's begun to sink, onward to her fatal fate
Blinded and lost, the dead are stalking me
Pierced form inside, no hope nor destiny
I look towards the sky, I look towards the sea
Remember when we set sail, the tales of old are taking
life
Our course was lost, a wall of fog embraced the souls
We hear the call of the waves, claiming for our demise
Restless, anger of the sea!!
Taken, my mind away from me!!
This presence of the unknown, began to grow in me
Madness and savagery, is giving birth to this killing
spree
Taking us into a human-shaped kind of death
Changing as we give our last breath
Take us to those realms of depths
Anger, open your jaws and take away
This flesh and blood, it's at your feet
Restless, raging streams, wrapping us
Within!!
Why did the crew condemned me?
This bloodshed makes no sense at all
Punished by the wrath of the sea
Death, why have you swallowed us,
Falling into your womb
Death… release us from this ripping torment
This dreadful life!!
The answer is there
Inanna is taking me to the end
Our encounter begins
On deck, standing
My vision, now in the end
I am alone
Darkness… you're finally here
Hatred rise from the ash
Demons cross the gates of an ancient realm
Hidden underworld
Domain of tormented souls
An unseen power will take all life
Agony it’s in their eyes
From the skies, fall the scourge of the Nameless
All is lost
Merciless spirits of the dark
Feast upon lacerated beings
Damnation and suffering
The pain has arrived
Within the minds of the tortured ones
Fear lives endlessly
Waiting for the eternal shadow
Unearthed from nothingness
This day has revealed the doom of mankind
I summon the dead from their sleep
Rising the hordes of the undead
Forces of the abyss
Answer to thy call
Winds of pestilence in the air
This world will fall by this unholy plague
Punishment for the faults of Humanity
We are the condemned to suffer for eternity
Exterminated by the hand of extinction
Feel the anguish
And rot away
Fate is now revealed
Your meaningless life is ruled by Satan's pride
See all your fears
Confront… reality!!
The afflicted souls are back from the grave
Cold winds of insanity
The traveler of endless dimensions
Has arrived!!
Torture and mutilation
Disgrace has taken your soul and mind
There's no salvation
No compassion, no dignity
All of you are dead now
Exterminated
Now begins the eternal sorrow
Don't defy this one doom
We are the condemned to suffer for eternity
Exterminated by the hand of extinction
Feel the anguish
And rot away
Fate is now revealed
Your meaningless life is ruled by Satan's pride
See all your fears
What is and what is not
What is won and how it is done
What will never be undone
What has been and never was
Truth inferred from struggles lost
What will be and might be done
I started as a coincidence
A failure condemned to torment
A mere consequence of my predecessors choices
I am the meaning of myself
I am the meaning of existence
In the prediction put before me
The path paved with life
Obsolete conclusions of lives prelived
This path no longer holds my destiny
I am the meaning of myself
Blood of men was once spilled, run through the walls of
Uruk
Oppression and rape rests over the throne of King
Gilgamesh
In tyranny, souls are slaughtered during the endless
Hear our pleas, almighty Anu, unleash all your power on
Earth
Out of the clay, Enkidu has risen, shepherd of the
steppe
Dweller of the mountain, your anger will break all the
injustices
Six days and seven nights
The whore gave you knowledge and power
Not a savage anymore
Go to the city, for wolves and lions
Are already dead
Fight was hard, might of titans was shown
The king has lost, but his dreams have spoken
We are marching now to face Humbaba the Destroyer
A sacrifice needed to end with the grief of the empire
The beast defeated, purification fulfilled
Your old life was cleanse
The vengeance of Ishtar
Eternity was granted to the gods, your will is nothing
but dust
“The thorns gave me the breath of life, which I'll
share with my people”
Go back to Uruk, clean your soul and hang your old
armor
All is lost, you must leave this world as a mortal
Your eyes are lost in the fog of thoughts
Travelling through insanity
The sands of time are cleansing you
A cosmic cell within your mind
Walking on roads of nightmares of old
Grey towers rise to the sky in macabre majesty
Your human horrors are turning to wisdom
The unseen
In front of you, entities of archaic splendor
Their desolate greatness is ruled by this horrendous
Grand Design
The universe is furthest from your locked up reality
Erased is your present, condemned is your past
Condemned!!
Your hidden fears, the ancient dementia
The unknown presence of these almighty visions
Corrodes your conscience, your hope, your pitiful…
Human ways
Search of endless memories and unexplored seas
The truth of your existence is to be revealed
Through occult volumes of atrocious insolence
The learning of your own doom, your final journey
Falling in the eternal dark, in a tomb of timeless
essence
Lurking for sanity within this chambers of sleeping
power
All lights are dead, knowledge embraces your soul
Raining fire from the skies, the lifeless burn forever
Empty human race… immolate!!
Unworthy lambs possessed by remorse and anger
Impaled soulless victims
Back to primordial state, useless souls, enslaved
consciences
Chained again to the magnificent void
Chaotic purification, the substance of immortality
The Uncreated One
Lord of Chaos
The eternal night, no life conscience
No minion can defy you
Marduk… defeater of the Ancient Ones
God of the gods, show your wrath against this foe
Behold the eclipse, know the forbidden arts
Madness to your eyes
Feel the fear, taste rebirth beyond reason
Is the sign of wisdom
Continuing your filthy way of life
Until they awake…
Arise Kurgarru… spirit of the Earth
Arise Kalaturru… spirit of the Seas
Arise and set thy feet to the gate Ganzir
Archaic Gods back from your sleep, crush the gates of
Divide the dreams from reality, bring them truth
forever
We knew the real darkness, we saw the Chaos
We embraced the fleshless ecstasy
The insignificant flame will be extinguished
Nameless majesty, rise from the Absu
Souls being sanctified within the debris
The scorched soil, expelling stifling winds
Living beings possessed by desolate spirits
Constructions of your past, corroded
Your eyes don't see the outraging power
Ages will fall forever into oblivion
Wars of anger, overwhelming terror
Masters of futile doctrines shall perish
Treacherous marks written in dying fire
Feeding civilization with complacency
Your eyes don't see the outraging power
Ages will fall forever into oblivion
Follow the worms into your endless sleep
Existence degraded to the lowest plague
Unworthy be the ones tied down to denial
The sunset of Men's era
All of you hear, the call of fate
It's the decline of your puny tragedy
Your primal weaknesses are revealed
Your flesh will burn away 'till the end of times
Perpetual wandering
To find your salvation
Times of suffering have begun
To crown your useless pride
Clinging onto the void, away from human hope
You must confront decadence, the putrefying act of God
There are no more aborted creations
Humanity inflamed in deceit
Spectral forces, swallowing entities
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
I can't believe
how my life has changed
I've opened up now
in so many ways
I saw the light
deep in my soul
It took so long
to finally let go !
Chorus
It feels so pure
(and wonderful)
feels so divine
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
my hearts on fire
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
Your the answer
(let go of your fears)
And I love you all
Can't you see
I give you my love
your my family
and it's time for us to change our ways
the children are here to show you the way
Just remember who you are
remember we came from the stars
your not alone
its all inside
you can feel it in your heart tonight
CHORUS
It feels so pure
(and wonderful)
feels so divine
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
my hearts on fire
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
Your the answer
(let go of your fears)
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HE YA
WAY YA HE
Just remember who you are
remember we came from the stars
your not alone its all inside
you can feel it in your heart tonight
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
Feels so pure
Feels so divine
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
feels so pure
(it feels so pure)
feels so divine
(so divine)
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HEYA
WAY YA HE
WAY YA HEYA