Revelations, Oracles, and Ancestors: Volume III, Act III

"Footprints" introduces life's double shadow, a force that can create or destroy. "Jubal," the forebear of music in ancient Hebraic tradition, is bound to this force whose shadow motif joins the mind's unifying "Fides" (trust, fidelity) mythos-of-memory with its flipside, the divisive "Phobos" (fear, envy, ego) Logos-of-reason. The shadow begets art, love, intimacy, philosophy, and, of course, music. It begets mathematics and science even as it seduces vain mortals into "Either/Or" and "Us ...