Creation Stories
Now on Bandcamp!
Three miniature works celebrating sacred making-of-the-world stories from Hebrew, Norse, and Ancient Greek traditions. The album includes access to downloadable audio and a Misha-designed PDF with liner notes and exclusive links to the Creation Stories music videos, plus a mobile-friendly secret webpage to view and listen. Thanks for joining me on the journey!
Creation Stories III: Maker of Stars
The third of 3 Misha Micro-Operas in the full moon-sacred series Creation Stories released on the Autumn Full Moons. This one, below, celebrates the November Full Moon in Taurus: Maker of Stars is inspired by Ancient Greek cosmogony.
Maker of Stars
Misha Penton: voices, music, words, film
Chaos
Abyss
All is Darkness: Maker of Stars
My writing, above, is inspired by Works and Days and Theogony by Hesiod (circa 800 CE). Translated by Stanley Lombardo (1993). Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Creation Stories II: Edge of Sky
The second of 3 Misha Micro-Operas in the full moon-sacred series Creation Stories released on the Autumn Full Moons. This one, below, celebrates the October Full Moon in Aries: Edge of Sky is inspired by a fragment of Norse cosmogony in the Icelandic Poetic Edda, circa 13th century CE (the stories are far older than the manuscripts!).
Edge of Sky
Misha Penton: voices, music, words, film
No sea, no sand
No waves, no land
No earth, no sky
No forests
Sun holds a sliver of moon
She grasps the edge of sky
Night is named, moon is named
Morning named, midday named
Afternoon and evening named
And the wheel of time begins to spin
My writing, above, is inspired by the beginning of the Poetic Edda - ‘Vǫluspá’ - wherein a seeress summoned by Odin tells of the beginning of the world and many other things...
Inspired by these translations:
Crawford, Jackson, trans. 2015. The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company.
Dronke, Ursula, trans. 1969. The Poetic Edda. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Hollander, Lee M., trans, 2011. The Poetic Edda. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Larrington, Carolyne, trans. 2014. The Poetic Edda. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Creation Stories I: Over the Water
The first of 3 Misha Micro-Operas in the full moon-sacred series Creation Stories released on the Autumn Full Moons. The first one, below, celebrates the September Full Moon in Pisces: Over the Water inspired by Genesis I.
The poetic energies of the Full Moon in Pisces are imaginative, changeable, intuitive, and creative. Pisces is also my Sun Sign so I’m intimately familiar with riding its mutable waves. Hang on!
Over the Water
Misha Penton: voices, music, words, film
The earth unformed, formless
The void
With darkness
Over the surface of the deep
And wind
Sweeping over the water
Inspired by Genesis I
Berlin, Adele, and Marc Zvi Brettler. 2014. The Jewish Study Bible. New York: Oxford University Press.
Next month: Creation Story III will be released on the November Full Moon, inspired by the Greek Mythology. Later this year you can collect all of my micro works on Bandcamp with exclusive goodies to go with—stay tuned, stay safe, and #StayInspired
