RUSH Rumor - New Album Working Title: "Snakes And Arrows"
January 15, 2007, 17 years ago
The following report is courtesy of premier RUSH fansite Power Windows:
Although nothing has been announced officially, there are rumors that the working title of RUSH's new album is Snakes And Arrows or Snakes And Ladders. Interviews with drummer Neil Peart have stated that religion in America will be the primary lyrical topic. This explanation of Snakes And Arrows (from Innertraditions.com) sheds a bit of light on the relevance of such a title:
"Chutes and Ladders, the popular children’s game, is derived from the ancient Hindu game Leela, or Snakes and Arrows, which charts the ups and downs of the soul’s path toward reunion with the Infinite. Snakes and Arrows was designed by the seers and saints of India as a tool for understanding the relationship of the individual self to the Absolute Self. For thousands of years the 72 spaces on this game board have enabled players to chart the paths that represent the course of their lives. Each space represents a virtue or a vice, an aspect of consciousness, or a plane of reality and is accompanied by a commentary explaining its meaning. The player’s progress on the board is dictated by the fall of a die corresponding to the forces of karma. Repeated encounters with the snakes and arrows on the board reveal the full meaning of the commentaries and can give shape to habitual patterns of the player, resulting in greater self-understanding and even a gradual detachment from the ego’s delusions."
