RUSALKE / RUSALKI – tv add

.. restless souls … Rusalki .songs of dark laughter .an archetypal adventure .a ritual beyond the limits of reason .an erotic primordial bond between a human being and the nature .metaphysics of the good and the evil … songs between worlds … Rusalki .based on the motifs of Slavic mythology .inspiration from the ancient Greek treasury .songs from soil and water .screams, cries, laughter and songs … between death and the dead Rusalki .undead and deadly beings .weavers of natural cycles .miraculous female characters existing between death and the dead .a symbol of potent, not yet realized female creativity Rusalki are miraculous female characters of Slavic tradition. They appear in ancient tunes sang by old women in Russian, Slovak, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and many other European villages. Rusalki are restless spirits of women who died accidentally or took their own lives: brides on the evening of their wedding, young mothers at birth of their child, newly-born girls, young women disappointed in love who took their own life. Rusalki are a symbol of potent, not yet realized female creativity and transformed fertility. Rusalki are myths about death and the dead. Rusalki are weavers connecting human, animal and vegetal fertility, and natural cycles with weather changes. In folk art they appear with ghostly crowns or as incredible beauties, looking like sirens: half-women half-birds, half-women half-fish, young women with wild, unkempt hair Their image changed …
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During the “Siegfried” Film Project of 1995. This was one of the best scenes… If you know anything of the Nibelungenlied, Siegfried marches off into the forest deeps to forge “Balmung”, a Pagan Blade who’s metal was the stock of the Viking Gods.. As Siegfried forges this Sword in a mighty blaze, the King of Storms & God of Thunder; “Thor” descends Valhalla… The Winds & Lightning pick up as this Norse Deity of great power swings his Hammer “Mjolnir” into the flames to give them the heat to bind the metal into an invulnerable state.. Siegfried welcomes the Thundergod & a wild gyrating innvocation follows as the blade is cooled by the rains of the Fertility God “Frey”.. The Soundtrack is perfectly fitted for this scene… I use Greig’s “Hall in the Mountain King” which increases in speed & intensity to accentuate a climactic scene & the Ritualistic dance segwaying into a slow dramatic “Siegfried Motiff” from Richard Wagner as Siegfied leaves the forge with his Sword divined & omnipotent!..