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I too feel fortunate to be in the company of such learned folk as "Caliban" and Richard. Without disputing what i feel are complimentary rather than adversarial comments on Tiresius, etc, FWIW as far as relevance, given Peter's use of Tiresius in Cinema Show-1973, and subsequent allusion to it in "White Shadow"1978 it is somewhere between possible and probably that's whom he had in mind with the lyric, although i don't speak under the auspices of anyone other than myself on this:) http://userpages.umbc.edu/~dkelly2/73selling.html#cinemashow http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~aychiang/pg/pg2.html#5 P.s. for anyone who was ever interested in this stuff Steve Hackett's wife/spouse has illustrated a book of genesis lyrics, she's quite good at it if you'd like a look at her work: http://www.kimpoor.com/genlyric.htm on which the very first picture includes the flight of birds. That was kind of a loop:) on 8/13/01 8:29 PM, Richard Zvonar at zvonar@zvonar.com wrote: > At 7:19 PM -0700 8/13/01, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: > >> The most interesting Tiresias reference I ever found was in Peter >> Gabriel's "White Shadow" on his second solo album: >> >> No one knew if the spirit died; >> All wrapped to go, like Kentucky Fried. >> Trying to read the flight of birds -- >> low on fuel, getting low on words. > > Divining omens from the flight of birds wasn't specific to Tiresias, > though he probably served as a model for those who came later > (according to some, Tiresias was a contemporary of Cadmus and > therefore was late Bronze Age). Our own word "auspices" comes from > the Latin "avem specere" = "to see the bird."