Full Moon #4

The kingdom of Thanatos

The Buddhists in their book Bardo Thodol (in Spanish: "release by hearing during the intermediate state"better known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead), consider life and death as part of a natural process similar to the cycle of the four seasons, where life and death are two sides of the same coin.

We have been inspired by this concept and have identified four ways of approaching the theme of death in literary expressions.

SPRING
Walt Whitman - Song of Myself, no.49
Asif Ali Khan w. Manzoor Hussain Santoo Khan & Ensemble - Rone umaraa de

SUMMER
Virginia Woolf - Suicide letter, 1941
Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une Infante Défunte

AUTUMN
Francisco de Quevedo - Constant love beyond death
William Blake - True love happens
George Frederic Händel - Saul, Dead March

WINTER
Charles Baudelaire - The end of the day
The 'Lileh' Choir of Dmanisi - Zari' ritual lamentation (excerpt)

FINAL ISSUE
Johann Sebastian Bach - Passion according to St. Matthew

BACKGROUND MUSIC
Kevin 2009 - Just Lay Down And Forget It

Produced by Shak Benavides and Ea7_dmZ