Churning The Maelstrom Lyrics

Churning The Maelstrom lyrics

Am the Uncreated God

Before Me The Dwellers in Chaos are Dogs

Their Masters Merely Wolves

I Gather The Power

From Every Place

From Every Person

Faster Than Light Itself

Hail To He Who Is In The Duat

Who Is Strong

Even Before The Servants of Serpents

He Gathers The Power

From Every Pit of Torment

From They Who Hath Burnt in Flames

From Words of Power Uttered By the

Darkness Itself



Hail To He in The Pit

Who Is Strong

Even Before the Terrors of The Abyss

Who Gathers The Power

From The Wailing And Lamentations

Of The Shades Chained Therein

From He Who Createth Gods From

The Silence Alone



[Last year, after the release of Black Seeds of Vengeance, I received e-mails
containing the text of a work whose origins had until then been completely
unknown to me. Entitled, "The Chapter for Bringing Heka to those who
Burn," the author claimed it was part of a larger collection of works
known as "The Book of Resurrection Apophis." In Egyptian methology,
Apophis is also known as Apep, the terrible monster serpent who, in dynastic
times, was a personification of the darkness of the darkest hour of night.
Apeop is the dreaded embodiment of utter evil in the form of a giant snake that
arises anew each night to struggle against the Sun god, Ra. Against Apep, Ra
must not only fight, but must succesfully conquer morning sun, lest darkness
and chaos engulf the entire earth during the day as well. Apep was both crafty
and evil doing, and, like Ra, possessed many names, to destroy him it was
necessary to curse him by each and every name by which he as known. In Egyptian
papyri, Apep is also represented in the form of an enormous serpent, into each
undulation of which a knife is stuck. In the Book of Gates, we see him fastened
by the neck with a chain (along which is fastened the Goddess, Serqet), the end
of which is in the hands of a god, and also chained to the ground with five
chains. Coincidentally (or perhaps not), Apophis is also the name the Hyskos
king Aussere adopted during his reign over the conquered and subjugated Egypt
of 1570 B.C. The Hyskos had invaded Egypt and established their new political
and religious capical city, Avaris, in the delta region of Egypt. Avaris is
also the site of the original Temple of Set. Set (or Sutekh, to the Hyskos) wa
the chief god of the Hyskos at that time, but in Egyptian mythology since
pre-dynastic times, Set was the murderous brother of Osiris, and the original
ultimate embodiment of the forces of darkness, chaos and evil, at whose command
was te monster serpent, Apep. During the early period of the Hyskos occupation,
the Hyskos faced little significant opposition. But during the reign of Apophis
I, the Theban princes of Egypt rose up to drive the Hyskos back out of Egypt, a
feat that is recounted on two large stelae set up by Kamose in the Temple of
Amun at Karnak. The text which I received was in three languages - Egyptian,
Greek and modern English, along with rubric instructions for the proper
recitation of the chants, which are to be memorized and repeated as a sort of
mantra, and as such should be spoken in Egyptian rather than English. The
translations were given only to throw light upon the meanings of the spell.
Upon closer examination of the text, it seems to bear superficial resemblance
to Chapter 24 of the Papyrus of Ani, "The Chapter for Bringing Magick to
Ani," (which is also known in some Books of the Dead as "The Chapter
for Gaining Power," and in modern ritualmagick as "The Gathering of
Heka.") But the similarities go immediately astray, for "The Chapter
for Bringing Heka to those who Burn" seems as though it is, in this
incarnation, a blasphemous underworld perversion of the chapters contained in
the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead. Perhaps it was intended for use
by ancient cultists who would be intent upon using the darker forces of Chaos
and the spiritual energy of those souls burning in the fiery pits of torment in
the underworld for their own cultist ambitions of the upsetting the orderer
structure of the ancient Egyptian world. More likely, their goal was probably
to alter the political balance of rival religious factions in the turmoil of
those tumultuous intermediate times. By the end of the 14th Dynasty, Egypt's
once considerable might as a nation had eroded due to internal political
struggles, so that it was unable to defent itself against invaders. The Hyskos
overwhelmed the Dynasty, remaining in power until being expelled during the
17th Dynasty ina great war, which lasted, according to Manetbo, about a quarter
of a century.]