SUPPORT FOR IMAGINING STORIES THROUGH MUSICAL RHYTHM

I have found the rhythm of Beethoven's Ninth Choral Symphony very supportive in helping imagine the story of The Green Snake and The Beautiful Lily.

With a good feel for the story, moving through the movements, the rhythm encouraged me to imagine the path of the story from beginning to end.

The beginning of the first movement enabled a theatre in the mind of the Ferryman "having" to transport the frivolous Will-o'- wisps across the River. Then subsequently through the successive movements the initial conversation between the Golden King and the Green Snake, the Woman with the basket rushing around, the youth becoming unconscious through the touch by the Lily, his gradual regaining of consciousness and development through conversation with the kings and the Man with the Lamp.

Finally, through Chorus, the (ode to) joy of two communities becoming one through the sacrifice of the Green Snake forming herself into a resplendent bridge between two communities on opposite sides of a River.

I sensed in this experience the ultimate communal benefit of the many diverse characters in the story gradually becoming able to "talk one to the other" as gesprach has been translated in a YouTube presentation of the story originating in America.
Revelations for ourselves through allowing this theatre of the mind to be present in our day to day lives is boundless.