“Golden Conch Shell” –|– Anthony Satori
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Some people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music playing very loudly on the radio.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
The music of the conch shell, for many cultures, has for millennia been the means for calling together the community for celebration, ritual, or a collective endeavor of some kind. For other cultures, it has represented a musical entreaty to communicate with the supernatural world. And for other cultures still, the conch produces nothing less than the sound from which the very universe was created.


I enjoyed your post, Anthony. Here’s a clip from one of Eric’s movies showing a Master Navigator in Micronesia using the conch to call upon the “Spirits of the Voyage” to protect the sailors at sea:
http://www.tritonfilms.com/youtubespiritsclip1.html
Take care, Betsy
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