Therion
Leviathan II
1. Aeon of Maat
No earth, no air
Enter shapeless void
In the chaos within our bosom
She would venture to rule the motion
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
Led by Ra through the secret portal
Into stars and the deeds of mortals
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
On the hillock of all creation
Bringing balance before damnation
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
Lead mankind
(Into the)
Aeon of Maat!
From within the temple of Karnak
The voices call...
Conceived deep in the heart of Pharaoh
Order, justice, to act with honor!
Greet your fortune beyond the feather
By her wisdom may all be measured
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
Meri-Maat, wear her name believing
For your soul in the heart lies grieving
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
Raining dust upon black emotions
Death becomes but a vague illusion!
(Before the birth of movement
Darkness of all origin!)
Lead mankind
(Into the)
Aeon of Maat!
Lead mankind
Into the
Aeon of Maat!
...Maat!
2. Litany of the Fallen
Outcast down from heaven
From grace holy severed –
Return now forever!
Echoes from the past inferno
Climbing on a new crescendo!
Gateways, light forbidden
Wisdom to us given –
Reclaim what was hidden!
Those tongues that could not be silenced
Carried on our voices rising!
Back in the days of Jared
The silhouettes of angels
Upon Mount Hermon gathered
As brethren, as forsaken
Dragon Mother rise
Spread your wings this night
And fly to alight the star of sin
Sharpen the claws again
Bringing rapture inhumane and fly
A new day will begin
All your wisdom bring, thy kingdom born within!
This day, the beginning
Speaking of the ending
Of times soon descending!
Tread now on the sacred meadows
Covered by your ancient shadows!
Beauty veiled in darkness
The sun shall devour –
Enter night time hour!
Insight to your true disciples
Once more to derive from Qliphoth!
They would become the Watchers –
Grigori, Shemyaza
To wield the arts forbidden
And drink the wine from Naamah
Dragon Mother rise
Spread your wings this night
And fly to alight the star of sin
Sharpen the claws again
Bringing rapture inhumane and fly
A new day will begin
All your wisdom bring, thy kingdom born within!
Dragon Mother rise
Spread your wings this night
And fly to alight the star of sin
Sharpen the claws again
Bringing rapture inhumane and fly
A new day will begin
All your wisdom bring, thy kingdom born within!
Dragon Mother rise
Spread your wings this night
And fly to alight the star of sin
Sharpen the claws again
Bringing rapture inhumane and fly
A new day will begin
All your wisdom bring, thy kingdom born within!
Come forth, Imamiah!
Come through, O Armaros!
Come forth, Amazarak!
Come through, O Forneus!
Come forth, Asmodeus!
Come through, O Focalor!
Come forth, Sathariel!
Come through, O Gomory!
Come forth, Chazaqiel!
Come through, O Hagenti!
Open the gates!
3. Alchemy of the Soul
"Alchemy Of The Soul"
Mythical the essence, the spark of alchemy
Philosophers' stone, creation from Carmot –
Mercury refined is to gold
Through the elixir of life
Immortality achieve you shall
By enlightenment of the night
Perfection gilds the mind
Water, fire, earth and rain –
All made from Primo Materia
Incombustible in flames
As Magnum Opus shines
Words of Mutus Liber the third eye will unveil
Philosophers' stone, oh spirits now give way
To the souls of nobles again
Through the elixir of life
Immortality achieve you shall
By enlightenment of the night
Perfection gilds the mind
Water, fire, earth and rain –
All made from Primo Materia
Incombustible in flames
As Magnum Opus shines
Azoth!
Azoth!
Azoth!
Azoth! Hail!
4. Lunar Coloured Fields
The strings of broken lyres
The sound of ashes spread
(Of ashes spread)
One by one your stars become undone
And seal the path on which you tread
(On which you tread)
Lift those hands from your weary eyes
Watch nightside rivers unfold the sea
Diamonds black fall from astral skies
Upon the lunar coloured fields
Within your soul no beauty
Lay down the course of time
(The course of time)
Wounded deep dimensions bow and weep
The flowers sleeping in your mind
(In your mind)
Lunar coloured fields!
Where desert hearts abide – dry
Parched with thirst they lie
Lunar coloured fields!
From sparkling kingdoms hidden a crystal flew away (flew away)
Darkened wings – so glorious the sin
Dissolving our yesterday (yesterday)
Lunar coloured fields!
Untouched by empty hands
May you be born again
Lunar coloured fields!
5. Lucifuge Rofocale
Hail thee Lord of Saturn! Hail thee Lucifuge!
In the mist an exploring heart
Enter the gates of an unknown path
Anchored was by its chains before –
Drifting on waves now through secret doors
Calling on thee! Summoning thee!
Rise like a god! Come unto me!
Stargate and moon Mimas arise!
Power invoked! Conjured through eyes!
Hail thee Lord of Saturn! Hail thee Lucifuge!
Travel pathways astral – reach the tree of shadows!
Sail through the void – the third horn
Guardian of gates – pass and appear!
Lead me to thy treasure realm
On the third Qliphothic sphere
Ruler of the vision of
Sorrow through dark resonance!
Measuring of thy ancient words
Music form that is yet unheard
Hands will reach and eyes will yearn –
Whisperings soft into chanting turn!
Hail thee Lord of Saturn! Hail thee Lucifuge!
Colours all into one shall bleed
Triangle drawn – come demonic seed!
Hazel wild shaped to magic wand
Moving again, may thy will be done!
Enter through realms darkened and old!
Lonesome within the afterglow!
Bring unto form shapes undefined!
Grant them thy name! Grant me a sign!
Hail thee Lord of Saturn! Hail thee Lucifuge!
Travel pathways astral – reach the tree of shadows!
Sail through the void – the third horn
Guardian of gates – pass and appear!
Lead me to thy treasure realm
On the third Qliphothic sphere
Ruler of the vision of
Sorrow through dark resonance!
6. Marijin Min Nar
reathing night born of magic
In astral flight (Astral flight)
Wings corrode air of heaven
That once was strong (Once was strong)
Flock of shayatin
Fire of the wind
Shadow on the wall
Invisible
Marijin min nar
Soon in the mist of our dawn
Will appear
Storms of sand - battles raging
In every man (Incantation near)
Changing shapes, moving quickly
Through time and space (Bring temptation here)
Flock of shayatin
Fire of the wind
Shadow on the wall
Flock of shayatin
Fire of the wind
Shadow on the wall
Invisible
Marijin min nar
Soon in the mist of our dawn
Will appear
7. Hades and Elysium
Bells do echo, sad is their toll
Close to Hades' misty abode
Di inferi shape the dark waving of Charon
'Cross the Styx shades must travel just like yours
Concealed forever within the silence
You'll feel the grief of Acheron
You'll hear the moaning from the tongues of the ancients
All shrouded spirits awaiting judgement
To reach the Elysian fields
The solemn shoreline rests in nightfall eternal
Fragments of today are close but far away
For all that is time sails in the moment
But a memory
At the crossing, three are the roads
Fate shall greet you forevermore
Will the fields of Asphodel or Elysium
Save you from every curse of Tartarus...?
Concealed forever within the silence
You'll feel the grief of Acheron
You'll hear the moaning from the tongues of the ancients
All shrouded spirits awaiting judgement
To reach the Elysian fields
The solemn shoreline rests in nightfall eternal
Fragments of today are close but far away
For all that is time sails in the moment
Fragments of today are close but far away
For all that is time sails in the moment...
But a memory
8. Midnight Star
Through her dark eyes
She's gazing at the stars of night
Sister of (Break)
Zorya (the)
Secret one coiled in the shell of her dreams (chain!)
Guardian (All)
Of the night (will)
No light has one so mysterious seen (end!)
Deep within the star of midnight
She is close to the gates of the sun forever
Mark the birth of all existence
Life begins in her realm of the night forever
Grasping fingers –
The moon is resting in her hand
Sister of (Break)
Zorya (the)
Silver is touching the white of your hair (chain!)
Guardian (All)
Of the night (will)
Who are you – where do you mirror yourself? (end!)
Path of midnight clear, narrow shining lies
Somewhere in her dreams of what dwells behind
Glow she will again in the dark unknown
Leaving not the way, elders walked before
Traveling the heights, passage rests concealed
She will journey on through the walls of sleep
(Midnight star of the golden shrine –
Trace the light of morning every dawn foretells)
Path of midnight clear, narrow shining lies
Somewhere in her dreams of what dwells behind
Glow she will again in the dark unknown
Leaving not the way, elders walked before
9. Cavern Cold as Ice
Soft, enchanting music darkness bring
When autumn winds lay your body down
Four queens ascend through the cosmic soil
Somewhere in your eyes the night flew by
Seeds transpired from the light
No pulse of time, no rhythm and no rhyme
Enter dreams, enter me — cavern cold as ice
Across the spheres every dream commence
As tongues begin by your will to dance
Somewhere in your eyes the night flew by
Seeds transpired from the light
No pulse of time, no rhythm and no rhyme
Enter dreams, enter me — cavern cold as ice
Hear Agrat bat Mahlat sing to thee...
The siren's call of a nightingale
Invoked arrives pleasures to unveil
Somewhere in your eyes the night flew by
Seeds transpired from the light
No pulse of time, no rhythm and no rhyme
Enter dreams, enter me — cavern cold as...
Enter dreams, enter me — cavern cold as ice
10. Codex Gigas
Night has fallen with whispering tongues
On the monastery
Sheets are empty but who is the one
With the quill before him...?
May you open Codex Gigas – what lies behind?
Spread the pages – hell and heaven on opposite sides
No more ink is put down by the quill
Soon touched by morning
As in honour the monk greets the one
Painting his portrait
May you open Codex Gigas – what lies behind?
Spread the pages – hell and heaven on opposite sides
May you open Codex Gigas – what lies behind?
(Was there a prayer, a special prayer, to have the one come forth?)
Spread the pages – hell and heaven on opposite sides
Bearer of the cloth in white
May you open Codex Gigas – what lies behind?
Spread the pages – hell and heaven on opposite sides
(Watch the riddle through the ages – it will always remain.)
(Watch as it lies open)
May you open Codex Gigas – what lies behind?
(Was there a prayer, a special prayer, to have the one come forth?)
Spread the pages – hell and heaven on opposite sides
Bearer of the cloth in white
11. Pazuzu
Pass me the torch of night
Son of Hanbi, thy might!
Lift my mind on your wings
Flapping shadows they bring
Clouds of sleep are breathing dreams
The shortest straw of future seeds
Let worlds below my path expose
Through secrets deep where mountains darker rose
Demon of old Babylon
A shield before the wrath of gods
Save me from winds of the west
Once born in the land of the dead
Old tongues speak and demand
(Rise and descend!)
Fruits of all that I am
Travel through the abyss
(Start at the end!)
Just like time from the crypts
Silence bleed unearthly light
Behold – Pazuzu will arise!
Tomorrow shall disperse the signs
Where every trail away was swept by time
Demon of old Babylon
A shield before the wrath of gods
Save me from winds of the west
Once born in the land of the dead
Storm bring Pazuzu!
Leave Pazunia!
Breath clouds of poison!
Breath through the portals!
12. Aeon of Maat (Alternative Vocals Version)
13. Pazuzu (AOR Version)
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