Venusian Verses

Word Warriors, Writers, Poets, Musicians, Artists; Emotional Evocateurs if you will.

Venus Tag A Series of Essays and posts.
Check out My Herstorical Maps to learn more about Earthly Queenship throughout the ages.

Visit : Other Women’s Voices -Translations of women’s writing before 1700

I raise my fist, first! To Maya Arulpragasam
A.K.A M.I.A. who travels with me by mp3.

Maya Arulpragasam has the beats to make you bang, slang tang? That’s the M.I.A.’s thing.Her haunting lyrics, and rapid fire beats assail delusionment like the flaming sword of an angry angel.

She is an agitator, communicator, artist, poet, musician, She asks London, New York and Kingston to quiet down so she, “Can Make A Sound!”

M.I.A has woven art, sound, motion and activism into a seamingly choesive formula.

You can watch M.I.A. video’s, fan created and otherwise at my new You Tube I.X.O.X.O.M.I.A. List

Peaches!

For more of Peaches, go here read, watch, listen
Hint launch the boombox when you get there.

(In the top right hand corner of the site.)

PodCast: Peaches Interfaces via AOL
RE: Her Album “Impeach My Bush”, XL Recordings

Kicks off with one of her explicit songs “The tents so big in your pants baby …”

Jeff interviews Canadian artist Peaches. She explains how she went from being a school teacher to, “The high priestess of potty mouth cock rockin booty tech.”

I Love her philosophy of Creativity, and her inspirations.

5 things (to write on your hand) about Peaches

1.Took her name from Nina Simone’s feminist anthem ‘Four Women.’

2. Worked as a private school teacher before becoming a musician.

3. Describes herself as having “hermaphrodite envy.”

4. Her provacative lyrics have been the subject of college classes in her native Toronto.

5. Former roommate Feist (along with Joan Jett, Josh Homme and Beth Sorrentino from the Gossip) guests on the new album ‘Impeach My Bush.’

Enheduana

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En-hedu-Ana is a title and means “The High Priestess [named] Ornament of the Sky”

Enheduana lived 4,500 years ago was a poet, priestess and a warrior. She saw her Goddess as personal and immediate and it was up to Enheduana to soothe her lady’s passions. She did just that by an inner alchemical process that gave rise to her art, the first of its kind in existence. She is remembered for being the first author of all time, it was her temple hymns that formed the basis of temple worship for the next few thousand years.

Inanna is Enheduana’s Muse, personal goddess and intimate. Inanna IS the goddess of Love and War, and has been known by a myriad of names throughout herstory, depending on the aspect she chose to reveal herself through. She is Isis, Ishtar, Venus, Laksmi, Aphrodite.

She is NOT Hera, Athena or Artemis. As these three have taken vows of virginity.

Audio Poetry Blog

What did the earliest anti-war poetry look like? What did the poet talk about? Did she/he feel the same helplessness and rage, poets today go through? What better way to find out, than go to the source?

Lament to The Spirit of War – Listen
Translation version © 1988 by Daniela Gioseffi

The ‘En-hedu-Ana Research Pages‘

Through her powerful incantations/songs to Inanna, the goddess of Love and War she changed the course of history and was remembered for centuries after her death. Her writing is so intricate, scholars call her the “Shakespeare of Sumerian literature“.

Enheduana (later 2300s or early 2200s BCE)

“THAT WHICH HAS BEEN CREATED, NO ONE HAS CREATED.”

Sappho Of Lesbos

Sappho (c.600 BCE) “SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US… EVEN IN ANOTHER TIME.”

“Some say the muses are nine – how careless – behold, Sappho of Lesbos is the tenth”. – Plato

kai` poðh’w kai` ma’omai.
I Yearn and I Seek
- Fragment

Charles-August Mengin.
Oil on canvas, 1877

Although they are only breath, the words I command are immortal,” -Sappho

Wikipedia

Sappho by Gustav Klimt

Sappho is believed to have been the daughter of Scamander and Cleïs and to have had three brothers. She was married (Attic comedy says to a wealthy merchant, but that is apocryphal), the name of her husband being in dispute. Some translators have interpreted a poem about a girl named Cleïs as being evidence that she had a daughter by that name. It was a common practice of the time to name daughters after grandmothers, so there is some basis for this interpretation. But the actual Aeolic word pais was more often used to indicate a slave or any young girl, rather than a daughter. In order to avoid misrepresenting the unknowable status of young Cleïs, translator Diane Rayor and others, such as David Campbell, chose to use the more neutral word “child” in their versions of the poem.

Sappho was born into an aristocratic family, which is reflected in the sophistication of her language and the sometimes rarefied environments which her verses record. References to dances, festivals, religious rites, military fleets, parading armies, generals, and ladies of the ancient courts abound in her writings. She speaks of time spent in Lydia, one of the wealthiest and most powerful countries of that time. More specifically, Sappho speaks of her friends and happy times among the ladies of Sardis, capital of Lydia, once the home of Croesus and near the gold-rich lands of King Midas.

The Poems of Sappho, Index of first lines

.. Po`das de’

poi'kilos ma'slhs e?ka'lupte, Lu'dion ka'lon e?'rgon.

A broidered strap of beautiful Lydian work covered her feet.

Her shining ankles clad in fairest fashion

In broidered leather from the realm of Lydia,

    So came the Goddess.

Homage

The 10th and 11th Thundercast of 52 is dedicated to The double edged Planet of Love and War.Sex and Violence. Life and Death. Love and Hate. Venus! The Morning and The Evening Star.

Warning! Not to be listend to within earshot of children.
Tends towards explicitness.

Enjoy!

10/52 The Warbyrd Mix

Includes a 4,500 year old poem penned by En-Hen-Du-An-A called Lament to the spirit of war.

I first found it on Audio Poetry .

The CD can be purchased here.

Of course I added my own special touches.

Normally each compilation is only 7 songs long, but for this special protest mix, I decided to add an extra little treat on the end.

Media List 4 10/52

11/52 Seven Steps To Heaven (Erotic) Mix

Notice a theme?

Thats right Love and War.

Two sides of the same coin.

Its our choice.

Love or War?

Media list 4 11/52

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