Musical Mathematics Update (XTC/Flaming Lips/Fleet Foxes)

I am reading Robert Bellah's Religion in Human Evolution and I came across this quote from Durkheim that really captures what I see going on in the ritualistic/animalistic  moments of XTC's "Sacrificial Bonfire" and the video for the Fleet Foxes' "The Shrine/The Argument":

Commencing at nightfall, all sorts of processions, dances and songs had taken place by torchlight; the general effervescence was constantly increasing...One ca readily see how, when arrived at this state of exaltation, a man does not recognize himself any longer. Feeling himself dominated and carried away by some sort of an external power which makes him think and act different than in normal times, he naturally has the impression of being himself no longer. It seems to him that he has become a new being: the decorations he puts on and the masks that cover his face figure materially in this interior transformation, and to a still greater extent, they aid in determining its nature. And as at the same time all his companions feel themselves transformed in the same way and express this sentiment by their cries, their gestures and their general attitude, everything is just as though he really were transported into a special world, entirely different from the one where he ordinarily lives, and into an environment filled with exceptionally intense forces that take hold of him and metamorphose him. (Quoted in Bellah, 17-18)

I think these songs are trying to recall this kind of transformative experience, and the animal costumes and symbolism capture some of what that transformation is supposed to be about: being transformed into a being closer to the natural world and to the powerful energies that still run through it underneath our civilized veneer.