Rapture

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Cannabalism as a founding pillar of Christian traditions is strange enough. (Eating flesh and drinking blood.) As for rapture, there have usually been laws against this sort of thing. (If you look up the roots of the word…)

Caught Up in the Rapture · Smooth Jazz All Stars Smooth Jazz for Anita Baker

Rapture, defined: 

▸ noun: A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.

▸ noun: Carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.

▸ noun: Kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.

▸ noun: Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.

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1600, “act of carrying off” as prey or plunder, from rapt + -ure, or else from French rapture, from Medieval Latin raptura “seizure, rape, kidnapping,” from Latin raptus “a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape” (see rapt). The earliest attested use in English is with women as objects and in 17c. it sometimes meant rape (v.), which word is a cognate of this one.

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rape (v.)

late 14c., rapen, “seize prey; abduct, take and carry off by force,” from rape (n.) and from Anglo-French raper (Old French rapir) “to seize, abduct,” a legal term, probably from Latin rapere “seize, carry off by force, abduct” (see rapid). Also figuring in alliterative or rhyming phrases, such as rape and renne (late 14c.) “seize and plunder.”

The older senses of the English word became obsolete. The surviving meaning “to abduct (a woman), ravish;” also “seduce (a man)” is clearly by early 15c. in English, but it might have been at least part of the sense in earlier uses.

Meaning “to rob, strip, plunder” (a place) is from 1721, a partial revival of the old sense. Uncertain connection to Low German and Dutch rapen in the same sense. In Middle English, and occasionally after, the verb was used in figurative senses of Latin rapere, such as “transport in ecstasy, carry off to heaven,” usually in past-participle rapte, which tends to blend with rapt. Related: Raped; raping.

Classical Latin rapere was used for “sexually violate,” but only rarely; the usual Latin word being stuprare “to defile, ravish, violate,” which is related to stuprum (n.) “illicit sexual intercourse,” literally “disgrace,” stupere “to be stunned, stupefied” (see stupid). Latin raptus, past participle of rapere, used as a noun meant “a seizure, plundering, abduction,” but in Medieval Latin also “forcible violation.”

rapt (adj.)

late 14c., “carried away in an ecstatic trance,” from Latin raptus, past participle of rapere “seize, carry off” (see rape (v.)). A figurative sense, the notion is of being “carried up into Heaven” (bodily or in a dream), as in a saint’s vision.

The Latin literal sense of “carried away” also was in English from 1550s. Essentially an alternative past participle of rape, in 15c.-17c. the word also sometimes could mean “raped.” The sense of “engrossed” is recorded from c. 1500.

As a Latin past-participle adjective, in English it spawned unthinking the back-formed verb rap “to affect with rapture,” which was common c. 1600-1750. Before that, there was a verb rapt “seize or grasp, seize and carry off; ravish” (1570s), also “enrapture, transport as with ecstasy” (1590s). There also was a noun rapt in 15c. meaning both “rapture” and “rape.”

Calvin Brooks – Caught Up In The Rapture (Jazz) (1989)

1. Important footnote: God is myth, not to worry… Life is fine.

2. Here’s another important Rapture footnote:

Dark Rapture – Count Basie – Helen Humes – 1938 Dark Rapture From Universal Production “Dark Rapture” Swing Count Basie And His Orchestra Vocals: Helen Humes

Writers: Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Manny Kurtz Count Basie (Piano, Director)

Helen Humes (Vocalist) Earl Warren (Alto Saxophone) Jack Washington (Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone) Lester Young (Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet)) Herschel Evans (Tenor Saxophone) Ed Lewis (Trumpet) Buck Clayton (Trumpet) Harry Edison (Trumpet) Benny Morton (Trombone) Dicky Wells (Trombone) Dan Minor (Trombone) Freddie Green (Guitar) Walter Page (String Bass) Jo Jones (Drums) Catalog Number: Decca 2212 B

Matrix Number: 64746A (Take A, 10″, 78 RPM)

Place and Take Date: New York, 1938-11-16

The recording on the other side of this disc: Jumpin’ At The Woodside

https://youtu.be/eLFj-J54l3g?list=RDeLFj-J54l3g

CD audio, originally issued on 78rpm: Decca 2212 – Jumpin’ At The Woodside (Basie) by Count Basie & his Orchestra, recorded in NYC August 22, 1938

3. “The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.” ~Willie Dixon