We enter the concert hall, the voices greet us, harmonies flowing around each other like the coils of Ouroboros, the stained glass windows stunning our taxed mind. A momentary silence, as they turn from the delight in their mind to regard the defendant, and then the song continues, but differently. We impose on their time -- our investigator steps forward, singing a plain description of all the data we could gather, the group gently wrapping his words with simple melodies, holding back the subtlety so as not to lose a singular voice like his. He finishes, and we wait. They return to the Oroboros melody, and then a clear note strikes, is held for a few moments, and judgement is passed. We pass from the hall, the decision made. The Oracle, and the Muses, have spoken.

I find myself wondering about Greek mythology -- the battle of the Titans with the Olympians, was the purpose of that narrative at one time to explain a change between the polytheistic traditions of earlier folk and of the people of the classic greek pantheon? I can imagine the cultural value of telling a group of people who worshipped the Titans, in order to move them to the new Olympian set of ideas, that their ideas fit into the history of the Olympian mythos, and in fact it is the logical continuation of the older beliefs (much like christians claim to judaists that christianity is the continuation (or "fulfillment", whatever that means in this context) of Judaism, or how Islam claims to renew/be continuous with Judaism/Christianity, or indeed how Judaism still has little bits left in the sacred texts from the polytheistic proto-Judaism that preceded it).

So, I now have the three currently available Plaid Tongued Devils CDs -- Belladonna, In Klezkavania, and Tongue and Groove. Apparently there was a CD that preceded Tongue and Groove that's really hard to find, with the title of Running with Scissors (remind you of any other album with that title?).. I really like these CDs.