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MITHRAS

The cycle Mithras was composed 2005 – 2006 and consists of 4 different pieces, Stadium, Explosion, Transformation and Evolution. The cycle is based on a 40 seconds long four part musical material consisting of distinct characters [gestalt]. These are, for example, glissando, chromatic scale, and arpeggio. These characters always appear in new contexts, they are expanded, contracted, both vertically and horizontally, i.e. Mithras is not a variation form because all characters always remain them selves. Each piece has one of the four parts as a focus and basis that determines the length, form, dynamics etc.

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    1. STADIUM
    2. EXPLOSION
    3. TRANSFORMATION
    4. EVOLUTION


"Zeus-Zen (æther), and Chthonia (the chaotic earth) and Metis (the water), his wives; Osiris and Isis-Latona -- the former god also representing ether -- the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, the primeval source of light; the goddess earth and water again; Mithras, the rock-born god, the symbol of the male mundane-fire, or the personified primordial light, and Mithra, the fire-goddess, at once his mother and his wife: the pure element of fire (the active or male principle) regarded as light and heat, in conjunction with earth and water, or matter (female, or passive, elements of Cosmical generation) Mithras is the son of Bordj, the Persian mundane mountain (Bordj is called a fire-mountain -- a volcano ; therefore it contains fire, rock, earth and water: the male, or active and the female, or passive, elements.), from which he flashed out as a radiant ray of light. Brahma, the fire-god, and his prolific consort; and the Hindu Agni, the refulgent deity from whose body issue a thousand streams of glory and seven tongues of flame, and in whose honour certain Brahmans preserve to this day a perpetual fire; Siva, personated by the mundane mountain of the Hindus, the Meru: these terrific fire-gods, who are said in the legend to have descended from heaven, like the Jewish Jehovah, in a pillar of fire, and a dozen other Archaic double-sexed deities, all loudly proclaim their hidden meaning.¨

         [The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky]

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