![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Sep. 23rd, 2006
Well, I did it
Sep. 23rd, 2006 10:07 am
It was weird, this morning. Rob was reading a post on tribe.net I was making, asking my Las Vegas Pagans for drum contacts. He said he heard about some concert ticket giveaway involving a feat of conspicuous consumption - whoever made the best show of smashing a guitar would win the tickets. He said he thought about calling the radio station & making a plea to someone to give him one of the guitars to give to me, but then decided better of it because he didn't really want to be an object of ridicule on the radio. I can't blame him - most of the radio stations around here are hideous.
So he started asking me about the whole drum thing, and I went over the points of why it's not a high priority -namely because of the price, but he asked what kind of drum I was looking for - apparently he's been thinking orcish war drum. Which would be cool, but where do you get a skull that size? So I typed in 'frame drum shaman drum' into my web browser & a site popped up that I had not seen before.
(I tried to insert the link, may not have worked)
http://www.magictails.com/abydos/mid-east/btfsr_drums.html
Anyway, the name of the company is 'Abydos Enterprises' . Abydos is of course, a city of ancient Egypt... here's what Wikipedia has to say about the nature of the worship occuring in Abydos:
" The worship here was of the jackal god Upuaut (Ophols, Wepwoi), who "opened the way" to the realm of the dead, increasing from the first dynasty to the time of the 12th dynasty and then disappearing after the 18th. Anhur appears in the eleventh dynasty; and Anubis, the god of the western Hades, rises to importance in the Middle Kingdom and then vanishes in the 18th."
Hmmm... interesting, neh? Abydos is important to me for another reason, but I'm not revealing that here. Anyway, I scroll down the page, basically showing Rob the frame drum design when I saw this:
It's called a 'rain drum' - it's a double-headed drum with beads inside to simulate the sound of thunder and rain.
Wow.
I had just been looking at hyaenas & jackals on Google two or three days ago, trying to figure out just what in Hel a hyena really is, and thinking that golden jackals look an awful lot like coyotes. I can't tell golden jackals & coyotes apart, really, at least not in photographs, so my computer might be full of 'coyote' pictures that are mislabeled jackals. Which is a very coyote-ish thing all on its own. Black-backed jackals are different - they look like Anubis in all his pointy-eared glory, only brown. Anubis was colored black - as much for the color of an embalmed body as for the fertile soil of the Nile after the flood season.
For some reason, something's been going through my head this past couple of weeks:
"A rain maker does not make the rain. A rain maker just knows the best time to dance. "
I don't know if I heard it somewhere or if it just popped up from the danker recesses of my soul, but it holds the flavor of truth.
I don't know, but it all seemed like too good a coincidence to pass up, so I ordered it.
So he started asking me about the whole drum thing, and I went over the points of why it's not a high priority -namely because of the price, but he asked what kind of drum I was looking for - apparently he's been thinking orcish war drum. Which would be cool, but where do you get a skull that size? So I typed in 'frame drum shaman drum' into my web browser & a site popped up that I had not seen before.
(I tried to insert the link, may not have worked)
http://www.magictails.com/abydos/mid-east/btfsr_drums.html
Anyway, the name of the company is 'Abydos Enterprises' . Abydos is of course, a city of ancient Egypt... here's what Wikipedia has to say about the nature of the worship occuring in Abydos:
" The worship here was of the jackal god Upuaut (Ophols, Wepwoi), who "opened the way" to the realm of the dead, increasing from the first dynasty to the time of the 12th dynasty and then disappearing after the 18th. Anhur appears in the eleventh dynasty; and Anubis, the god of the western Hades, rises to importance in the Middle Kingdom and then vanishes in the 18th."
Hmmm... interesting, neh? Abydos is important to me for another reason, but I'm not revealing that here. Anyway, I scroll down the page, basically showing Rob the frame drum design when I saw this:
It's called a 'rain drum' - it's a double-headed drum with beads inside to simulate the sound of thunder and rain.
Wow.
I had just been looking at hyaenas & jackals on Google two or three days ago, trying to figure out just what in Hel a hyena really is, and thinking that golden jackals look an awful lot like coyotes. I can't tell golden jackals & coyotes apart, really, at least not in photographs, so my computer might be full of 'coyote' pictures that are mislabeled jackals. Which is a very coyote-ish thing all on its own. Black-backed jackals are different - they look like Anubis in all his pointy-eared glory, only brown. Anubis was colored black - as much for the color of an embalmed body as for the fertile soil of the Nile after the flood season.
For some reason, something's been going through my head this past couple of weeks:
"A rain maker does not make the rain. A rain maker just knows the best time to dance. "
I don't know if I heard it somewhere or if it just popped up from the danker recesses of my soul, but it holds the flavor of truth.
I don't know, but it all seemed like too good a coincidence to pass up, so I ordered it.