From Wikipedia:
Pythagoras of Samos --born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist
According to Iamblichus, the Pythagoreans followed a structured life of religious teaching, common meals, exercise, reading and philosophical study. Music featured as an essential organizing factor of this life: the disciples would sing hymns to Apollo together regularly; they used the lyre to cure illness of the soul or body; poetry recitations occurred before and after sleep to aid the memory.
Pythagoras established a secret religious society very similar to (and possibly influenced by) the earlier Orphic cult.
According to Iamblichus, the Pythagoreans followed a structured life of religious teaching, common meals, exercise, reading and philosophical study. Music featured as an essential organizing factor of this life: the disciples would sing hymns to Apollo together regularly; they used the lyre to cure illness of the soul or body; poetry recitations occurred before and after sleep to aid the memory.
Pythagoras was very interested in music, and so were his followers. The Pythagoreans were musicians as well as mathematicians. Pythagoras wanted to improve the music of his day, which he believed was not harmonious enough and was too hectic.
And a very interesting synchronicity
From:: http://www.expansivepoetryonline.com/journal/rev042007.html
Lee Slonimsky's Pythagoras In Love
My observations of the following text:
Pythagoras sees hawks circling above him as he has a revelation at a lake before being taken in his etheric form to a star. The hawks are hunting a snake, and Pyth. warns the snake.
Hawks also resonate with eagles. The use of the Eagle in modern western government is predominant over any other animal used for symbology. The Eagle and Hawk also resonate with the Pheonix of Ancient Egypt and Babylon. Collectivley, we can assume the identity between the Hawk and Western Governments are relevant.
Snakes are used often in Eastern theology, and have been worshipped through the ages. Snakes also pop up in the iconic symbolgies of used in ancient Latin America - The Mayans and Peruvians are Antedelluvian surviving cultures who would use worship of the snake could have been carried over from the same sorces as those eastern religoions thousands of years ago.
Additionally, the text reads, "He warns the hunted snake and off she goes", implying the snake is female.
So, I would say that the snake could represent Eastern Government and theocracy.
The west has always seeked to stamp out those ancient snake cultures and their pagan-esque teachings.
In both stories of St. Blaise, and Orpheus; the government in which they belonged to turned against them because of ideologies that leaned towards eastern philosophy as opposed to western. For this, they had their heads cut.
Orpheus was killed because he stuck up for women, and Pythargous's snake is female.
The story of St Blaise says nothing about any "female" or "females" which would be predictable coming from a catholic story, although they did in the story mention that St. Blaise was mistaken for Orpheus.
Pythagorus being a resonator of both St. Blaise and Orpheus, had a revelation one morning while observing light reflecting from a lake. He saw a snake (which represents the knowledge or awareness of the east) and the circling hawks above, (west) and warned the snake. Pythagorus did not have his head cut, or anything bad happen to him, because in this life time, I believe he may have learned his lesson when the event reoccurred.
Pythagoras is thought to have derived some of his mathematical insights from the observation of birds in flight, and avian imagery abounds in this little book. Geese, gulls, crows, swans, swallows, larks, thrushes, nightingales, mockingbirds, and above all hawks flit through the text as if it were a bird sanctuary. Hawks were especially important to Pythagoras, as their elliptical swoops may have suggested numerical patterns to him, and of course there is the probably apocryphal story (it is mentioned in both Plutarch and Porphyry) that the philosopher was friendly with an eagle. After a while this bird-business gets tedious, but Slonimsky manages to keep the reader's interest through the sheer force of sophisticated language.An example of Slonimsky at his very best is the sonnet "Warning," wherein Pythagoras is found in a forest, observing a snake and two hawks. I give it in full:The supple gleaming presence of this snake,
her midnight-colored, glistening thin coil,
observed this morning near the sun glazed lake,
unnerves Pythagoras; his daily toil
of studying birds, winged geometries,
the way they intersect with wind and light,
originating angles with the trees,
is halted by this primitive black sight.
But intellect soon subjugates his fear;
he pauses, patient, hoping for a move
expressing undulation. Now a pair
of hungry hawks is circling right above;
he warns the hunted snake, and off she goes;
good use for language learned from cawing crows.Mortality's gray scythe will never wait
for him to learn how shape and song are rules
of atoms humming now in a faint breeze. The way late sunshine glances off these stones,
caressing granite with its western light,
and whispering affection to earth's bones
with radiant bronze lust that would invite
hot rapture in the living, soothes him now,
as if he'll be beloved even when
his flesh declines to dust, as if somehow
the sun can feel a passion for old men
through all the darkness of eternity.
OrphismNote: In the quoted tablet, there is a reference of being "a son of the earth and starry heaven"This is something the newly dead soul must to repeat to the guards of the underworld, in order to achieve salvation.(the earth=human -- the starry heaven (heaven=star)= non human? Does this mean a declaration of hybrid ancestry?
FROM:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism_(religion)
Surviving written fragments show a number of beliefs about the after life similar to those in the "Orphic" mythology about Dionysus' death and resurrection. Bone tablets found in Olbia (5th cent. BC) carry short and enigmatic inscriptions like: "Life. Death. Life. Truth. Dio(nysus). Orphics." The function of these bone tablets is unknown.
Gold leaves found in graves from Thurii, Hipponium, Thessaly and Crete (4th cent. BC) give instructions to the dead. When he comes to Hades, he must take care not to drink of Lethe ("Forgetfulness"), but of the pool of Mnemosyne ("Memory"), and he must say to the guards:
"I am the son of Earth and Starry Heaven. I am thirsty, please give me something to drink from the fountain of Mnemosyne."
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