Country | Performance Hall | Date | Time |
Finland | Vantaa/Heureka Science Center |
Saturday 22nd January, 2000 |
at 13.00 |
Estonia | Tallinn/Kiek
in de Kök Ocean Museum |
Sunday 23rd January, 2000 |
at 15.00 |
Human - animal relationship is a complicated phenomena. Adam of
Bremen, the bishop of Germany, Scandinavia and Finis (the
utter End) of the known world at that time (Finns, Finland) wrote a
chronicle 1074 AD. In his chronicle there is a chapter describing a
communication between "great whales", "grandia
cete maris" and aboriginal Finns or Sami-people.
Obviously aboriginals communicated with whales using throat singing type of
sounds "potenti
murmure verborum".
[English verb murmur, German verb
brummeln, both verbs are as close as possible with the concept of throat
or Tuva singing].
Jim Nollman's presentation tries to reach and go beyond this "Magical Charged Border" between human and animals. He will guide us through the pathless wilderness of a communication space using Adam of Bremen as a key in this labyrinth.
References:
Here follows the whole quotation, originally observed
by Dr. Ole Lindquist
Book 4, ch 32, of Adam of Bremen's 'Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum' (from ca 1074/75 AD):
[Latin original:]
"Omnes vero sunt christianissimi, qui in
Norvegia degunt,
exceptis illis, qui trans arctoam plagam circa
occeanum
remoti sunt. Eos adhuc ferunt magicis artibus
sive
incantationibus in tantum prevalere, ut se scire
fateantur, quid a singulis in toto orbe geratur; tunc
etiam
potenti murmure verborum
grandia cete maris
in
littora
trahunt, et alia multa, quae de maleficis in
Scriptura
legentur, omnia [265/266] illis ex usu facilia
sunt. In
asperrimis, quae ibi sunt, ...".
[Finnish translation by Vesa Oittinen:]
"Kaikki
Norjan asujaimet ovat kristittyjä, lukuunottamatta niitä jotka
asuvat kaukana napapiirin takana Valtamerten rannalla. Heitä mainitaan
vielä siinä määrin taikakeinojen ja loitsujen taitajiksi,
että he
kertovat tietävänsä, mitä itse kukin tekee missä
tahansa päin
maailmaa. Lisäksi he houkuttelevat voimallisia
sanoja mutisemalla
suuria meren valaita rantaan, ja monet
muutkin niistä asioista mitä
Raamattu kertoo noidista, ovat
heille kokemuksesta tuttuja. Siellä
olevissa mitä
kolkoimmissa..."
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