Wednesday, June 13, 2007

a first drum....


dearest ayllu...

just to add to the part i wrote last week about Shiva's drum...

it's interesting to note that he also creates the drum... in the story of Shiva and Ash Demon, he finds a coco de mer, a sea coconut that washes up on the shores of India... and so, with the flame of his third eye, he slices the coconut in half... he then covers each half with skin from the snakes that encircle his body, and then begins to play...

from the drum on his right there comes the sound of birds singing, of brooks bubbling, of leaves rustling in the breeze... all the creatures of the world stop to hear his music...

and when he plays the drum on the left, there comes the sound of the earth shaking, of booming thunder, of trees cracking in a storm...

and sooo, this was the very first tabla drum... now known so famously in India and all over the world...

with much light and love...
weaver (((o)))