SEIKILO Ancient World Music | Sirens Call - Ancient Lyre & Vocals - Bettina Joy de Guzman @SEIKILO | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
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We know all things which come to pass on the fruitful earth. — Sirens Call
Bettina Joy de Guzman sings a story of cursed creatures doomed to sing sweetly only to bring sorrow and death to those unfortunate to even listen to one of their songs. According to Ovid, they were sent to the Underworld by the goddess Demeter to keep company with the young Persephone when she was abducted by the God Hades.
According to Hyginus, the Sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.
Bettina performs on a LUTHIEROS ancient lyre, masterfully handcrafted in Greece with love.
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
// The Real Story of the Sirens (notes from Bettina's album)
They were once human-shaped— carefree, beautiful daughters of the river god, Achelous, and companions of the young goddess Persephone, child of the great earth goddess Demeter.
But when Hades, lord of the Underworld, kidnapped Persephone and stole her away beneath the earth, these young women could not help her.
Afterward, perhaps through remorse, they searched over all the lands, and they prayed to the gods for wings so that they might search over all the waters. But so they might not lose their soothing, tuneful voices, maiden features and human voice remained.
// Who is Bettina?
Bettina Joy de Guzman is a multi-instrumentalist and Classicist, composing with replica ancient music instruments and ancient poetry, based on research. She has performed for National Archaeological Museum in Athens, among other universities and international organizations.
She has taught ancient languages, history, and mythology. As President of California Classical Association South, she organizes panels twice a year. She is co-creator and host of Cosmote TV, History Channel, “Ancient Greek Culture, Now!” which aired January 2021 in Greece. She is a 2021 Associate and Grant recipient and Visiting Artist for The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.
🎶 🏺 🇬🇷 Lyrics in ancient Greek
δεῦρ᾽ ἄγ᾽ ἰών… νῆα κατάστησον,
ἵνα νωιτέρην ὄπ ἀκούσῃς…
πρίν γ᾽ ἡμέων μελίγηρυν ἀπὸ στομάτων ὄπ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι,
ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε τερψάμενος νεῖται καὶ πλείονα εἰδώς.
ἴδμεν γάρ τοι πάνθ᾽... θεῶν ἰότητι μόγησαν,
ἴδμεν δ᾽, ὅσσα γένηται ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ.
(based on Homer’s Odyssey, scroll 12, lines 185-192)
🎶 🇬🇧 Lyrics in English
Come here… stay your ship
that you may listen to us…
until one hears the sweet voice from our lips,
but indeed he rejoices and goes his way much wiser.
For we know all the toils… endured through the will of the gods,
and we know all things which come to pass on the fruitful earth.
🎬 Film & Sound by Chris Sagias
🎙️ Sound engineer: Benj Clarke
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We know all things which come to pass on the fruitful earth. — Sirens Call
Bettina Joy de Guzman sings a story of cursed creatures doomed to sing sweetly only to bring sorrow and death to those unfortunate to even listen to one of their songs. According to Ovid, they were sent to the Underworld by the goddess Demeter to keep company with the young Persephone when she was abducted by the God Hades.
According to Hyginus, the Sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them.
Bettina performs on a LUTHIEROS ancient lyre, masterfully handcrafted in Greece with love.
⚫ Find the perfect lyre for you at luthieros.com
🔵 Learn how to play the lyre and other ancient musical instruments at
lyreacademy.com/choose-your-next-course
// The Real Story of the Sirens (notes from Bettina's album)
They were once human-shaped— carefree, beautiful daughters of the river god, Achelous, and companions of the young goddess Persephone, child of the great earth goddess Demeter.
But when Hades, lord of the Underworld, kidnapped Persephone and stole her away beneath the earth, these young women could not help her.
Afterward, perhaps through remorse, they searched over all the lands, and they prayed to the gods for wings so that they might search over all the waters. But so they might not lose their soothing, tuneful voices, maiden features and human voice remained.
// Who is Bettina?
Bettina Joy de Guzman is a multi-instrumentalist and Classicist, composing with replica ancient music instruments and ancient poetry, based on research. She has performed for National Archaeological Museum in Athens, among other universities and international organizations.
She has taught ancient languages, history, and mythology. As President of California Classical Association South, she organizes panels twice a year. She is co-creator and host of Cosmote TV, History Channel, “Ancient Greek Culture, Now!” which aired January 2021 in Greece. She is a 2021 Associate and Grant recipient and Visiting Artist for The Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University.
🎶 🏺 🇬🇷 Lyrics in ancient Greek
δεῦρ᾽ ἄγ᾽ ἰών… νῆα κατάστησον,
ἵνα νωιτέρην ὄπ ἀκούσῃς…
πρίν γ᾽ ἡμέων μελίγηρυν ἀπὸ στομάτων ὄπ᾽ ἀκοῦσαι,
ἀλλ᾽ ὅ γε τερψάμενος νεῖται καὶ πλείονα εἰδώς.
ἴδμεν γάρ τοι πάνθ᾽... θεῶν ἰότητι μόγησαν,
ἴδμεν δ᾽, ὅσσα γένηται ἐπὶ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ.
(based on Homer’s Odyssey, scroll 12, lines 185-192)
🎶 🇬🇧 Lyrics in English
Come here… stay your ship
that you may listen to us…
until one hears the sweet voice from our lips,
but indeed he rejoices and goes his way much wiser.
For we know all the toils… endured through the will of the gods,
and we know all things which come to pass on the fruitful earth.
🎬 Film & Sound by Chris Sagias
🎙️ Sound engineer: Benj Clarke
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