This song looks at how our lives intersect with all kinds of mythology, from the cosmic and universal to the very local and personal. As people who grew up in Port Elizabeth, the image of the pyramid and lighthouse at the Donkin Reserve is almost all pervasive, and a source of much speculation and intrigue.
The urban myth heard as children was that Elizabeth Donkin was a witch, and that her heart is buried underneath the pyramid, and that the town is cursed. The truth behind this story is that her husband carried her embalmed heart with him after her death in a box, and was buried with it after committing suicide later in his life.
So details and facts become easily intertwined with the wider realms of imagination and wondering about our place in this universe, and in this way the narrative fabric around which we find meaning and purpose is created.
The pyramid itself, and its use as a marker in certain esoteric and occult philosophies, is a symbol that comes laden with its own array of mythologies.
So as a local Port Elizabeth band, we used this local monument to root speculations of the fantastical in the reality of life in our home town.
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