Joseph Campbell in "The Power of Myth", talks of that pygmy legend of the
little boy who finds the bird with the beautiful song in the forest and
brings it home.
He asks his father to bring food for the bird, and the father doesn't want
to feed a mere bird, so he kills it. And the legend says the man killed the
bird, and with the bird he killed the song, and with the song, himself. He
dropped dead, completely dead, and was dead forever.
It seems to me this story is about what happens when human beings destroy
their environment. As Joseph Campbell said, "...they destroy their own
nature, too. They kill the song."
Pardon any cross-posting
Best regards,
Lynda Roberts
http://www.artecology.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
