Ritual - Nous Sommes du Soleil

Does anyone know what this language is and what it means? "Ritual - Nous Sommes du Soleil"

thanks Bern!  Hmmm...we are from the sun, we love when we play...interesting hahaa

"we are the sun" or "We are from the Sun"?

dagrush wrote: *We Are The Sun

I don't think so actually. As a french speaker, I know that We are the Sun would be an awkward translation for Nous sommes du Soleil. It would be possible that it's what Anderson meant but if it is, it just doesn't sound good in french.

Nous sommes du Soleil litteraly means We are of the Sun.

Nous sommes le Soleil would mean We are the sun.


Edited by Bern - August 31 2006 at 13:47

Bern you speak English and French fluently????!  19 years old WOW!

Bern wrote: The Lost Chord wrote: Bern you speak English and French fluently????!  19 years old WOW! I'm not the only one in this forum knowing more than 1 language at my age. But thanks anyway

I spoke three at 19 - Italian, English and French. Now I speak 5. It's not impossible to do, if you only want to learn and apply yourself to that.

how does one apply themself...say me, trapped in New York City, no where to go, people speaking broken ENGLISH for christs sake...ebonix has taken over almost everywhere, my teachers dont even speak english.

The Lost Chord wrote: Anyways, does anyone know andersons intentions with this song, and maybe a little background on the album?  it seems to have a strong surrounding concept....i jus dont get it, but i love the songs!

I recall the story behind the album being in the liner notes, check there, but if not, they are based on Shastric scripture, in particular: "The album's concept, a four-piece work of symphonic length and scope (incidentally based on the Shastric scriptures, as found in a footnote within Paramahansa Yogananda's book Autobiography of a Yogi)," (from wikipedia)

I believe Jon stumbled upon the text while they were on tour in Japan.  Please someone correct me if this is wrong, I used to know the story behind Tales but it's been many years.

By the way, though Bern is fluent in French (I believe he is Quebecois), one need not be fluent to translate "Nous Sommes du Soleil" - it's trivial even for those of us who did the standard 4-year high school French education here in the US.  All you need to know is how to conjugate the verb être (to be), that de le (of the) contracts to du, and le soleil is the sun.

The Lost Chord wrote: how does one apply themself...say me, trapped in New York City, no where to go, people speaking broken ENGLISH for christs sake...ebonix has taken over almost everywhere, my teachers dont even speak english.   How did you learn 5 languages!??!

I have a specific background in languages, having a degree in Foreign Languages with English as a major subject. I started learning English at 8 and French at 11 (the latter at school), then took German at university (and am still learning it, though I'm quite fluent by now), and finally learnt Finnish when living in Finland (I was there almost 6 years). I have also studied some Swedish, and understand Spanish reasonably well, though I can't speak it very effectively.

As to your own situation... well, NYC doesn't seem exactly a backwater to me! I'm sure there are thousands of language courses available, and lots of foreigners live there too (I know there are lots of Italians).