Nile Wind Of Horus Lyrics

Wind Of Horus Lyrics

Ashu Give us Power

To Oppose this Legion of Shrikes

They hath Defiled our Monuments and Graves

For their Greed of Treasure

Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn

We Are the Breath of Horns

Hot as the Desert Wind

We are Slayers and Reapers of Men

By the Arrow Shot from Lanata

You will Fall to your Knees Dead

or Begging Quarter

Torn to Shreds by Obese Vultures

Fossilized in the Desert Sand

We are the Breath of Horns

Hot as the Desert Wind

We are the Slayers and Reapears of Men

You will Never Escape

This Valley Gallala

Left to Decompose

Forbidden the Underworld

Bemused by Battle Lust

I Gash your Throat

And Splatter your Blood

Upon the Altar of Bes

We Erect one hundred Pyramids

With your Severed Heads

Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn



[This song was inspired by a battle from a book caled River God by Wilbur
Smith. The story takes place in the latter half of the 14th Dynasty, and is
about a struggle to restore the majesty of the Pharaoh of Pharaohs. Tanus,
leader of the mighties army of Egypt, the Blue Crocodile Regiment, hunted down
and destroyed the Shrikes, a horrid nomadic tribe of thieves, rapists, and
murderers that played the Egyptians. The title of the song, "Wind of
Horus," refers to the name of the boat of the Blue Crocodile Regiment. It
is an enchantment of the god Horus to cause the wind to blow the Egyptians'
sails in time of need. The repeated chant in the song is to invoke the god
Ashu, who robs the enemies of the Egyptians of their virtues, weakening and
destroying them. The word Lanata is mentioned in the song. Lanata was a bow
made for Tanus by Taita the slave and was made of wood, ebony, rhinocerus horn,
and ivory tusks. The bowstring was made out of the guts of a lion that Tanus had
killed with his bronze-bladed war spear. Tanus was probably the only one in his
army strong enough to use the Lanata bow. It had so much tension that he had to
use a different technique just to pull the bowsting back. Tanus practised until
he could shoot three arrows at a time piercing the heaviest of armor.]