Nile At the Gate of Sethu 1. Enduring The Eternal Molestation Of Flame Let not my Corpse Rot in the Necropolis Let not my crimes be raised against me Whilein the Earth Make my flesh and bones safe from Maggots And Any False God who Trepasses my Tomb You whose heart has been Seized from thy breast Save me from the Ravages of Deacay The CrawlingFeinds Who Take away Limbs Corpses who Deny the Inevitable Truth The Lifetime of Osiris is the Sky And theirs is the Ground Save me from those Imprisoned in the Duat Who Know not yet they are already Dead Save me from the Rotting dead who sleep inside Their corpses Whose breath becomes fire inside their water at whose burning the sea rises at dawn Grant Methe Immolating Flame Burn my sarcophagus In opposition to the lords of eternity I beg you Prevent my corpse from putrefying in the realm of the dead Enduring the eternal molestation of flame The life time of Osiris is the Sky and Theirs is the Ground 2. The Fiends Who Come To Steal The Magick Of The Deceased The great one has fallen on his side Swarmed by the eight crocodiles I know them by their names and lives I save my father from them Crocodiles of the west Who live on the unwearying stars Detestation of you is in me The Nau snake is in my belly Your flame will not be upon me Crocodiles of the east Who live on mutilation Detestation of you is in me The Nau snake is in my bowels Your flame will not be upon me Crocodiles of the south Living on feces Smoke and want Detestation of you is in me My blood is not in your hand I will erase you I will erase you Crocodiles of the north Living on the waste between the stars Detestation of you is in me Your poison is in my head A scorpion writhes within me I'm glad with the magick of Re What exists is within my grasp I'm heard in the house of the great one Who destroys the living I am Re Who protects himself Nothing can harm me I am Re Who protects himself Nothing can harm me I am Re 3. The Inevitable Degradation Of Flesh I have come to you that you may Heal my corpse Permit me to go down into the Earth Forever Such as He who will not be Ravaged May I not become Corrupt May my Ka Ascend aloft May it descend only after it has perished Such is he who is Decayed All his bones are corrupt His flesh is slain his bones are softened His body is made into foul water His degradation stinks and he turns into many worms When he is sent to the eye of Shu Every mortal is thus All those who live will die All who die shall rot Do not give me over to the slayer who lurks inside Who rots the hidden one Who decomposes corpses Who does what has been commanded I have awakened in Perversion and dread I possess not my body I have become corrupt decayed putrid Worms gorge upon me Maggots infest my organs Vermin gnaw my skull My eyes have been eaten my ears are deaf Rotten flesh falls from my bones My head has romeved itself form my neck My tongue taken away My hair has been cut off my eyebrows stripped I have become what I abhor 4. When My Wrath Is Done When my Patience is Finished When the Mercy of Khufu is Exhausted When my Subjects have Failed Me And Continued Grace has become Futile Then will wrath seem the better part of Discretion My Slaves Utter Words of Rebellion They Curse my Name They Bend not their Backs Unto me Or Bow Before my Monuments When Those who Incite Revolt are Crushed When the Streets Run red with the Blood of the Unfaithful When the Hands of the Idle are Severed And the Piles of the Skulls of the Rebellious are as the Innumerable Stars Then will my Wrath be Done KnumuKhufu! 5. Slaves Of Xul [Instrumental] 6. The Gods Who Light Up The Sky At The Gate Of Sethu The Great God cometh forth to the Gate The gods who are therein acclaim Him Guarded by sixteen UraeiStandeth the mummified form of Nemi A Knife in his hands Swept by Flames of Fire Come thou who art at the Horizon Who Unveils the secret place And unfolds the Fathomless Depths of the Earth Sethu the Hideous serpent stands on his tail And guards the Way Sayeth Sa Rand thy Gate Tear open thy Portal Illuminate the darkness The Gate Shuts behind ra Uraei wail when the gate closes upon them The Procession of Ra Incinerates the Sky Until the God of the Hour a Star in each Hand Horus the Hawk Headed SereqAbeshi Sekhet the Lioness The winged serpent Semi Besi Receives the flame Of a horned animal Transfixed by a knife From the neck of The Serpent Ankhi Grows the Skulls of the undead The cries Raise their Hands in adoration Uraei rear their heads Unto Horus Set Maketh thou a Rising up for Ra In his hand is the fire from the head and upon the Horns The weapon in the hand of the slayer is within the follower of the God Those who cry unto Ra say Enter in O Ra Hail Come forth thou who art Born of the Underworld Light up the Night sky Set ablaze a Conflagration that Sears the Firmament 7. Natural Liberation Of Fear Through The Ritual Deception Of Death I Bow down to the Glorious Transcent One Vajra Kumara Whose Face Frowns with Wrath In Order that My Living Being Be Released from the Extreme Suffering And all The Unremitting And Bitter Sorrows of Death Lifespan Threatened By Imbalanced Elemental Forces And Malevolent Spirits Flame of Life nearly Extinguished The Signs of Impending Death Have Manifested Red Wheel of the Fire Element Inscribed with the Five Rams Yellow Wheel of the Earth Inscribed With the Five Lams The White Wheel of Water Inscribed with the Five Khams The Azure Wheel of Space With the Five E Syllables I Bow down to the Mahakarunika Who is a Sanctuary of Great Bliss I Enter the Triangular Dark Pit And utter the Syllables of Elemental Fire Black demon Black Demon Black Demon The Cornea of my Eyes has begun to Fade The Hair on the back of my neck has grown upwards My eyes stare Fixedly My Limbs are subject to Spasms Three Times I Place a Dog Tail Beneath me Place his Excrement before me Eat a Mouthful and Bark like a Dog The Severing of the Bond Between Atmosphere and Earth is Nearly Complete The Fall of the White Rider has Occurred The Rupturing of the Great Tree has come to Pass My Urine is Blackish and Putrid My Excrement has no Vapour The Seed Symbols have appeared on the Skull of a Horse The One Legged Yavati has Arisen as an Enemy of the Wish Granting Tree I make the Ritual of Averting Death A Means of Liberating Sentient Beings From their Sufferings May I be counted Worthy of Past Actions 8. Ethno-Musicological Cannibalisms [Instrumental] 9. Tribunal Of The Dead I fear I may have Fallen out With the Regime An Enemy of the State My Name is Written Amongst the Disgraced On a Clay Image of a Bound Human Captive I Bring Incense To Appease The Forthy Two Assessors The Tribunal of the Dead I Bring Natron The Imbibing of Which Purifies Thot Who Vindicated Osiris Entrap Mine Enemies in the Presence of Every God and Godess In the Presence of the Great Tribunal In Heliopolis on that Night of Battle Of the Slaughter of those who Rebelled In the Presence of the Great Tribunal In Abydos on the night of the Festival Of the Numbering of the Dead In the Presence of the Great Tribunal Which is on the Road of the Dead In the Presence of He that is Nothing On the Night of the Great Devastation Lords of Justice Lords of the West Who Pass Judgment upon the Dead Who Instill Terror in those who have wrought Wickedness I have come that you may drive out the Evil which is in me All that I have done Before the Lords of Eternity Since I Came Forth from the Womb Let me Be Cleansed By Fire Let no Evil Lay Talon or Claw Upon Me Let my heart not be devoured NecrosAeropagus 10. Supreme Humanism Of Megalomania I asset my claim of umcompromising empowerment I am like as unto Atum lord of all whose spontaneous self generation Led to the appearance of the earliest gods and thus the material universe there is none higher I appear in glory as that god who eats men and lives on the gods as sun god I am reborn From the womb od the sky goddess nut Her aching body is the sky Her nakedness the skin on which the stars rest I am AtumKhepri who came into being of himself I am he who opened a door in the sky Who rules from his throne and adjudgeth those who are born I am the horned bull who rules the sky Lord of celestial appearings The great illuminator who came forth from fire to hardness the years I am the jackal of jackals I am Shu who breathes air into the limits of sky and earth I draw unto myself all the forces on the universe I become not merely a god but the universe itself I am alone in making the transformation from man into god I am released from this world of servile obligation to false temporal power who claim to be divine 11. The Chaining Of The Iniquitous The Slayers of Geb Reckon up the Immoral After the Weighing of the Words in Amentet Tem saith unto the reapers Keep Ward over the Wicked And Bind ye Fast Those who Are to be Smitten The Neniu Profane Apostates The Depraved who when on Earth Cursed Ra Shameless were their lies in Words and Deeds The Inquitous Cannot Escape Condemnation according to the will of Ra Ra hath Issued Decree for their Doom Which Shall be wrought upon Them in the Great Hall Drive Stakes to Fetter them Weigh them down with Heavy Chains Bind their Arms behind their Backs Bow Them down and Make them Prostrate Reduce them to Helplessness In your Hands take Knives and Hack them Make Gashes in them Slit open their Heads Hack Into Pieces their Chained and Helpless Bodies Great Suffering shall you cause upon The Immortal The Chaining of the Iniquitous Karl Sanders ‒ Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Vocals Dallas Toler-Wade ‒ Guitars, Bass, Vocals George Kollias ‒ Drums, Percussion