Inspired today by the music of Philip Glass and the film work of Godfrey Reggio who worked together on the Qatsi trilogy. Speficially, from KOYAANISQATSI.
From the definitions page:
ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living.
Hopi Prophecies quoted in the film:
- If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.
- Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky.
- A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky which could burn the land and boil the oceans.