Ye by command of yonder Dyaus, God bright by day! have gone to heaven. 8. Song-lover! like a charioteer come songs to thee when Soma flows. Together, they have called to thee as mother-kine unto their calves. 9. Come now and let us glorify pure Indra with pure Sama hymn! Let mil...
The Siri Singh Sahib taught us about the unique classes of languages. He called them phonetic languages where the sounds of the syllables impart meaning by the way they resonate with the archetypal human psyche. He described Gurmukhi, Sanskrit and French as three such languages. In the ...
HYMNS 1 - 3, TRANSLATED BY A. W. MAIRHYMN I. TO ZEUS[1] At libations to Zeus what else should rather be sung than the god himself, mighty for ever, king for evermore, router of the Pelagonians, dealer of justice to the sons of Heaven?
Hymn written by Fanny Crosby “Near the Cross”, alternatively titled “Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross” or “In the Cross”, is a Christian hymn written by Fanny Crosby and published in 1869. English / Chinese Version 中英文版 English / Chinese Version中英文版–...
We can change God instead. The new lyrics transform sin into a mere matter of diversity. But we do not love a concept called God, we love Him. And if we love him, we try to keep his commandments. God is real, not a mere thing that we mold to the whims of the day. By ...
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(for all stanzas), and he used its tune as a cantus firmus. After an opening sinfonia, the variations are arranged symmetrically: chorus–duet–solo–chorus–solo–duet–chorus, with the focus on the central fourth stanza about the battle between Life and Death. All movements are in...
Kristen and I wrote “My Song In The Night,” the theme song of this website, after being inspired by an anonymous American folk hymn text of the same title. We only included two lines from the original, though. WHAT KIND OF SONGWRITERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HYMN-WRITING?
His most famous, of course, “A Mighty Fortress,” often is called “The Battle Hymn of the Reformation.” The song embodies with strength and gusto the very spirit of the Reformation, breaking free from the flaccidity and poverty of medieval theology with rich God-confidence. Continue ...
The twentieth book of the Samhitâ, with the exception of the so-called kuntâpasûktini (hymns 127-136), seems to be a verbatim repetition of mantras contained in the Rig-veda, being employed in the Vaitâna-sûra at the sastras and stotras of the soma-sacrifice: it is ...