ARTICULATE HANDS COMPREHENDING THE SYMPHONIC MUSES

In classical times Homer's poems were recited to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument, and during the siege of Troy Agamemnon's consul visited Achilles in his tent and found him playing his lyre and singing lays about the heroes.

That so mighty a warrior should ease his soul in the relaxation of music was no surprise, after all he was in fact symbolizing the ancient attitude to an art which was the very core of their lives. The pinnacle of spiritual attainment advocated by the immortal philosophers in those far off days was nothing less than the perfection of man's psyche by immolation to the muses.

The Pythagoreans were said to have been the first to consider the philosophy of music necessary to progressive life but the searching souls quest for musical solace is a timeless event.

Both Plato and Aristotle encouraged the perception of virtue through music, the former philosopher taught the arts of the muses in his Academy called a Museum, and the latter philosopher did likewise in his Lyceum which was also called a Museum.

In our day Artemis's cat greets the Lunar phase with nocturnal serenading, but long before our time the cat received her ancient wisdom because she symbolized the lives of the nine muses.

Phoebe's lunar hallation enthrones the creative symphonic Muses and in the nocturnal watches of time Artemis' cat reveals the secret of her eternal superiority.
- DANIEL

This story reflects the ancient importance of music to the soul and for spiritual attainment. The muses were the Greek dieties of poetry, literature, music and dance. Of the nine muses, Thalia represented comedy and the cat is symbolic of the nine lives of the muses. Artemis is the lady of wild things; the daughter of Zeus and sister of Apollo; a huntress and a lion unto women - thus Artemis's cat.
- LJO