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Utena: Student Council Saga Lyrics Notes
The following are in order of the duel fought.
The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse
Apocalypse: Cultures all over the world have their own Apocalyptic myths. An Indian myth
says the world is created, destroyed, and recreated over and over again. Brahma creates it,
Vishnu sustains it, and Shiva then destroys it. During this cycle the Four Ages of man will be
repeated. In Christian theology, at the last judgement, all humanity will be judged for their sins
or good deeds. Those who are not worthy will be cast into Hell for eternity, while the
righteous spend eternity in Paradise. The Islamic legend also includes a last judgement, where
at the end the wicked and righteous are separated. Both will cross a bridge to Paradise, but
only the righteous will walk it easily, and the others will fall into the chasm of Hell. Some will
be able to crawl out through repentence and perseverence. At the end of the journey, the just
will drink of Muhammad's Lake and never know sorrow, hunger, thirst, or suffering.
Darkness: The other half of the duality of light. It can be a symbol for the removal from God
and light, ignorance, or the underworld of the afterlife. It symbolizes the coming of the end of
the world in the Book of Revelation.
Lost Paradise: In the beginning, it was thought humankind dwelled in an earthly Paradise, free
of danger, and filled with innocence. But at one point, humans were thrown out of this
Paradise (Adam and Eve for example), and now strive to return.
Midwifery: The word was originally Anglo-Saxon and meant witch or wise woman.
Shangri-La: The hidden Buddhist lama Paradise described in James Hilton's Lost Horizon.
Sodom: It and the city Gomorrah were destroyed by divine judgement in the Old Testament.
It came to symbolize an immoral city, after the rumored wickedness of the people.
When Where Who Which
Marginaux: French. In the margin, fringe, margins of society.
Sphinx: Mythical Greek creature with a human head and lion body. This winged creature
lurked at road sides, challenging unwary travelers to riddles, which if they could not answer
(they usually couldn't), she would devour them. She symbolizes the riddle of human
existence.
Paleozoic Within the Body
Ammonite: Coiled, chambered fossil shells of cephalopod mollusk of the extinct order
Ammonoidea.
Bennetites: Mesozoic plants.
Cambrian: Paleozoic. 500-600 million years ago. Marine and algae invertebrates.
Carboniferous: Paleozoic. 270-350 million yrs ago.
Caytonia: Mesozoic plant.
Cretaceous: Mesozoic. 70,000,000-135,000,000 yrs ago. Giant reptiles extinct, modern
insects.
Devonian: Paleozoic. 350,000,000-400,000,000 yrs ago. Fishes, amphibians, and
ammonites.
Jurassic: Mesozoic. 135,000,000-180,000,000 yrs ago. Dinosaurs and conifers.
Lycopsida: A clade, lycopsids are members.
Ordovician: Paleozoic. 440,000,000-500,000,000 yrs ago. Seaweed and algae.
Paleozoic: 220,000,000-600,000,000 yrs ago. Fish, insects, and reptiles.
Permian: Paleozoic. 220,000,000-270,000,000 yrs ago. Existence of many reptiles.
Pleuromeia: Type of lycopsid during the Triassic.
Selaginella: Any terrestrial, mosslike cryptogamic plant of the genus Selaginella.
Silurian: Paleozoic. 400,000,000-440,000,000 yrs ago. Breathing animals.
Stromatolite: Bacteria that formed layers on top of each other and created a structure like a "living rock."
Triassic: Mesozoic. 180,000,000-220,000,000 yrs ago. Marine reptiles and dinosaurs.
*Defs. from Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language
Spira Mirabilis Theatre
Alchemy: "Alchemy was primarily striving to extend the spiritual realm of light by
systematically pushing back the world of matter, felt to be heavy and dark... From primal
matter (materia prima), via several purifying steps, the philosopher's stone (lapis
philosophorum) is to be formed, which will enable its possessor, among other things, to turn
base metals into gold and silver-the metals of the sun and the moon-and to produce a
universal medicine for all disease" (Biedermann, 6-7).
Ammonite: see above.
Scarab: To the Egyptians the scarab came to symbolize the sun and renewal. To early
Christians it was a symbol for the Resurrection.
Scipio: Roman general. There was a piece written by Cicero called "The Dream of Scipio" and in it Scipio is in Heaven looking down
upon the Earth and other planets.
Spira: Architecture. A series of moldings at the base of a classical column.*
Mirabilia: Latin. Marvels or miracles.*
Also in "China and Japan, scholars collected tales of marvels or miracles called Mirabilia... Such marvel tales, folk stories and legends were usually retold by the
collecting scholar, sometimes embellishing and usually improving the quality of the story."**
Spira Mirabilis: Miraculous spiral. Term from the mathematician Bernoulli.
*Defs. also from Dictionary.
**From the Online Asian Encyclopedia: liquid2k.net/lhadatto/m.html
Angelic Creation, Namely Light
Androgynous: Greek. Being both woman and man. Many ancient creation myths tell of a
single being creating the world, and later is portrayed as two halves. Sometimes the
androgynoous signifies a divine unity of opposites. Angels were thought by some to also be androgymous.
Angel (Lucifer, Michael): In lore, the once angel Lucifer led a rebellion in Heaven, and lost,
he and his followers being banished from God's presence for eternity. The archangel Michael
is often portrayed fighting the dragon Lucifer.
Apocalyptic: see above
Erebus: In Greek mythology he sprung from Chaos and represented primeval darkness.
Nirvana: It was the eternal non-being, the disappearance of self into the infinite.
Nyx: Greek, night. Associated with mysterious darkness and the protection of the womb.
Her sons in mythology were Sleep and Death (Hypnos and Thanatos).
Thanatos: The Greek personification of Death.
Uranus: His name meant heaven, and was the god of the sky. He was father to Cronus, and
sealed his children from the light until Cronus realeased them and overthrew his father as lord
of the heavens.
Last Evolution (Eve of the Evolution Revolution)
Laplace: 1749-1827 French astronomer and mathematician.
Seal Spell
Dich: You in German.
No One Has Anything To Tell
Evening Star: Also called the Morning Star, Lucifer, the planet Venus.
Firefly: An old folk belief in Japan says that the souls of the dead take the form of fireflies.
Seven Ancient Wonders: The first were-the pyramids of Egypt, hanging gardens of Babylon,
tomb of Mausolus, temple of Diana, statue of Jupiter, and the Pharos of Alexandria. The
second listing was-the Coliseum of Rome, the catacombs of Alexandria, the Great Wall of
China, Stonehenge, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Porcelain Tower of Nanking, and the
Mosque of San Sophia at Constantinople.
Stars: They are symbols of the cosmic order, or of spirits in some beliefs.