Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsies Knew.

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gardenshed

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Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsies Knew.

Pythagoras codified music after hearing a smith working on different sized anvils, which produced different sounds directly in proportion to their size.
Seguiriyas is the most primal form of flamenco. Based on the anvil, and who knows what cross-conception of magic and hell which the blazing forge conjured up in the minds of the Gitano, who were expert smiths, of course.
Seguiriyas is also the most cosmic of the flamenco forms. A true cry of the lone, travelling individual soul in the vastness of the universe and time. A child of rhythm and vibration – not that old trickster Melody. The Bare forked Being. The Thing itself, as Shakespeare says. And now we learn that iron is the element on the periodic table which all other elements try to be.
It is the most stable organization of atomic particles there is. It is the rhythm of the universe. The anvil of the cosmic forge. And also the forge of music and of flamenco.

Again the Gitano knew something without being told. Without having to be taught. No wonder they have always been so persecuted.

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Jan Willem

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RE: Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsi... (in reply to gardenshed)

Interesting post, thx

JW

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gardenshed

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RE: Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsi... (in reply to Jan Willem)

Not forgetting the Iron Age - which gave us the Roman Empire, and its non-violent guerilla resistance - Christianity.

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Samarto

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RE: Iron In The Soul. What the Gypsi... (in reply to gardenshed)

They were persecuted because they couldn't be controlled! They refused to be parrots and puppets ... they danced to their own rhythms not a reaction from the pulling of puppet strings. They played guitar strings from true emotion ... the strings didn't play them.

Thoughts on iron

The earth's inner core is solid iron ... iron is magnetic ...

Magnetism establishes direction

Prehaps the gypsies relationship with iron was more than the frequecies produced by hammering on it.

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