Cantaoras:
Dark Daughters of Baphomet
There was a long moment of silence as the coven of nine women all
gathered on the slight slope of that almost South facing hill among the
mamelons of South Shropshire not far from where an ancient trackway
marked the ancient border with the land of Wales.
Eulalia was there - resplendent in her crimson cloak, as befitted a
Mistress of Earth. And Venora - she of the red-hair and the fullsome
body which her thin long verdant-coloured covering did little to hide
and which thin coverlet seemed to scintillate in the light of the
not-quite-full Moon as she, as Priestess, moved counter-sunwise to
greet each sorceress with a kiss: moist lips touching moist lips.
Then, they
were ready, gathered together in an almost perfect ellipse as Eulalia
began her vibrated invokation to their Dark Goddess, their Mistress and
Mother, Baphomet: Nythra kthunae Baphomet!
She held in her outstretched hand a crystal, shaped as a tetrahedron,
while her lover, Venora, gestured to the shadows for the two male
Guardians to step forth.
Then, seven of the women, handsome of face and lithe of body, with
their long dark hair neatly braided and tied, began to chant their
haunting sinister chant, a chant so old it was as if the intervening
one and half thousand years had never been; as if the Chant Mozarabe
was still to be heard in sequestered choirs by nuns devoted to the new
Nazarene faith - except there was on that South Shropshire hill no
Latin words of worship to a some God; no Latin words of praise for
some Saviour. Instead: only words of a lisping language long forgotten
except by an hereditary few; strange words replete with desire by those
few
who, remembering, desired a return of those dark, sinister,
acausal-entities who thousands of years ago had been presenced on
Earth, bringing menace, blasphemy, joy, nightmares, madness, violence,
and the much needed Chaos of human evolutionary change.
So they chanted while the tall, strong, Guardians brought forth the
needed seed
and gift, pinning the naked terrified young man down within the ellipse
of now slowly circling cantaoras. There were no audible words to be
said, declaimed, or shouted - for none were needed as Eulalia bent down
to touch his forehead with the crystal, and she watched, smiling, as
his
life was quickly;y drained away to leave a corpse, only a corpse, paler
and gaunter than it would have been even if all the blood and plasma
within had been somehow drained away. Her crystal seemed to iridesce
then, as if in rhythm to the chant, and she held it up, arms
outstretched to where the Moon, in that very moment, occulted a star
named on Earth, Dabih. She felt it, Them, then, within her - as her
obedient
Guardians effortlessly, efficiently, took the corpse away. Felt the
centuries of longing that her own mother must have felt, centuries and
centuries ago;
felt the longing for The Dark Gods to be birthed again into joy-giving,
joy-receiving, warm bloodfull human bodies.
And then She was there, dwelling among them, accepting the willing if
only very temporary offering of Vanora's life and body. There: among
the mortals
and the half-mortal who had kept the faith; waiting, waiting, coven
after coven, through the long centuries for the stars to be aligned as
it was said they should be aligned; for the crystal to be fashioned as
it was said it should be fashioned; for the chant to be as the chant
should be, brought into-being by skilled, chosen, cantaoras. Thus was
She, their Dark Goddess, an acausal-being, presenced in the causal,
ready to be again a birthing-mother: bringer-into-being of a whole new
race. For the time of human Chaos, darkness, death, culling, change,
had arrived, again.
Thus did they - the women - greet her with a kiss, lips to moist lips,
as thus did the Guardians step forth again from the shadows to kneel in
obedience before her.
^^^
Eulalia had planned well. A selection of male victims were already
waiting when she and Venora returned to their house, at the end of a
track, off a narrow lane between hills in that rural borderland.
Although, of course, the men - ranging in age from early to late
twenties - did not consider themselves victims, enticed as they had
been by the wiles, the sorcery, the sexuality, of the ladies of
Eulalia's coven.
So the three young men had waited, in one of the the plush, luxurious,
sitting-rooms of that house. Waited, chatting amiably among themselves,
as two elderly gentleman, neatly groomed and neatly dressed in somewhat
unfashionable clothes, served them food and drink. Waited for the
trysts they had been promised among the many bedrooms of that place,
assuming as they did in their egoism and desire, many things. But it
was not Venora herself nor even one of the young dark-haired lithe and
nubile women that awaited them when they were led, by Venora, along a
corridor and up some winding stairs to a darkened room: a darkness that
seemed oppressive and heavy, if scented by some quixotic perfume.
Thus did they enter, replete with their desire, and thus did a warm
strong hand grasp theirs to lead them down upon some soft and
scented bed where they, still unseeing, had their clothes removed with
ripping force to find themselves pinioned by strong arms and legs while
a feminine softness moved over to touch to press down upon them to kiss
them, building thus their male desire. But their ecstasy of joy,
brought by a sexual joining, was soon over
with their seed of life taken from them when a sudden drowsyness seemed
to
overcome them, then, as they lay, in exhaustion.
Other hands, not soft, grasped them then as they, helpless, were lifted
to be taken along a skein of unlit passages to small windowless rooms
below. And it was there, in those rooms - one for each - that they
almost stupefied by some-thing, lay, in warmth on a not uncomfortable
bed. Lay, waiting, while causal time passed - as causal time passes -
in the world above them. Perhaps one of them might be needed, again -
and if he was, he would be brought again to that darkened room scented
with quixotic perfume. But not one of them would ever see the
brightness of day, again.
^^^
So the days passed, in that house, as they passed. Occasionally, a new
young man would egress from the causal world outside into its
ever-growing strangeness: enticed there, from some near or far city or
some town, by unspoken promises, perhaps a kiss, but always by a
luscious lady, young or verging on middle-age: it made no difference to
the men, for their very beings, enchanted, craved the fulfilment of
that strong sexual desire which burgeoned forth from within them to
seize them with that first sensual touch or kiss from such a
sensuous lady in some Inn, or Club, or Bar. Once, a young man,
arrogant, self-assured - his powerful sleek new sporty car outside -
had taken it upon himself to press a lady for another kiss when she had
sat beside him in some Bar. Gently then - or so it seemed - she held
his hand to twist it powerfully back while he tried to not let pain
show on his face. She left then, unsurprised when he followed, and they
were outside in the street-lit darkness among the rows of cars when he
lunged toward her. She was too swift - almost unhumanly swift - and he
was left to try and stop himself falling to the ground before steadying
himself and trying ungallantly to punch her in the face. She seized him
then, to knock him unconscious with one swift blow, and it was in his
own car that she drove him back toward the sanctuary of her home.
Her gift was pleasing, and he awoke to stark blinding darkness when
something soft, scented, touched him, but it was not long before his
life was gone to leave a corpse, only a corpse, paler and gaunter than
it would have
been even if all the blood and plasma within had been somehow sucked
away.
Thus did the months pass until new life came forth there, in that
nexion, bringing much joy, and much that was strange, while the
great boiler fed warmth into that house as Autumn turned to Winter,
often fructified as that boiler was by pale empty hulks, their main
purpose having been fulfilled. And thus did that new life grow -
growing as children grow, however strange the child - until the time
for their
departure came when they, the seeded, would be sent forth to seed:
male, female, or somewhere in-between, it would make no difference; the
same enchantment; the same violence bred; the same darkness, death and
Chaos sown.
Once, in the months of their growing, three men came, in two cars, to
call upon that house. There were rumours, it seemed, that disturbed
them and their Detective-kind. They were served Afternoon Tea, in the
heated Conservatory, while Eulalia, as befitted a Mistress of Earth,
politely entertained them, as, in nearby room, four beautiful women in
long black flowing dresses played a late Haydn String Quartet. So
Eulalia smiled, as
the men sat sipping their milkless First-flush Darjeeling tea, and they
- enchanted - soon forgot their questions, their disturbance of both
thought and mood. Thus did they take their leave, satisfied within
themselves there was nothing amiss, and pleased to be invited to
return, again. And thus did they, each alone, return, weeks later, to
be treated as honoured guests: offered food, and drink, and a willing
women to warm and share their bed. And thus did they leave, happy,
replete,
willing, cheerful, servants: useful, influential contacts, and sources
of valuable information.
So the months passed, bringing the warmth and brightness of Spring to
the land outside. And thus was there a new house, elsewhere, and far,
with new burgeoning life within, and other woman, and guardians, to
keep, nurture
and protect it. And thus were there in that place new contacts invited,
enticed. New
fuel, of little value as fuel, to add to proper fuel for new boilers
that kept such houses warm, in Winter, and provided the warmth of warm
water for luscious women to bathe, and preen and wash. Thus were there
new nexions, gradually
opening, spreading, preening, sowing, feeding, growing.
^^^
There was a long moment of silence as Eulalia sat alone on the slight
slope of that almost South facing hill among the mamelons of
South Shropshire not far from where an ancient trackway marked the
ancient border with the land of Wales. She felt both relieved and
tired. Relieved that she had achieved what was necessary, but tired
from
the many decades of her wait. She had new sisters, and brothers, now -
and her hopeless search, of years, to find others of her kind seemed
just a distant no longer sadful memory. Thus did she smile, before
rising to her feet to walk along the old footpath down to her house
where her new guests would be waiting to be entertained.
Anton Long
Order of Nine Angles
119 Year of Fayen