Music: Aphazel
(Instrumental)
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
Black clouds fill the day sky
in the primitive Lands of Nod
as the two sons of Adam offer up
their gifts (of pride) to the one reigning high
a dark fate born by sacrificial fire
Caine: "Oh, Great Father of my father
Whom Thou banished from Thine garden
Look down upon Thy faithful servant
And accept my beloved brother."
With tears of love the Firstborn thrust
his sharpest scythe deep into Abel's heart
rendering him lifeless but eternally
prized in the mind of God as his body withered
in the scorching blaze.
Caine: "Oh, my dear brother
Forgive me for what I have done.
But to the One Almighty
a greater prize I have none."
Adam: "Caine, thou hast broken my seal of absolute love
The crime thou'st committed meets not
the approval of Him above.
Forever shall you wander in the lands beyond alone
and from this day forth I cannot call thee my own."
Caine: "Oh, father my great father
Why hast thou cursed me so?
Have I not done what thou asked for?
To the shadowed woods I cannot go."
Adam: "I can no longer endure thine sinful words
This greatly unmerciful deed hast done him wrong.
I pray that thou find ways to repent
and I was cast out so you shall be gone!"
Be gone!
Exiled, the Firstborn rushes off to the obscure yet
welcoming arms of Cimmerian darkness
for there he shall find great wisdom
and awaiting beneath the crescent moon lurks
the mother of magick...
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
Caine: "Alone in the darkness I can hear
the sweetest voice
whispering words of surcease
and I rejoiced!
Who would dare speak to one so
condemned as I?
Do you know of my most wicked crime?"
Lilith: "I'm known as Lilith, your father's first bride
Like you I'm cursed to dwell in the shadows of night."
Caine: "How can one survive here in the dark
groves farlorn?
Without a sole companion or a friend of
some form?"
Lilith: "But there are many companions in my
infinite kingdom.
Through magick and sorcery I've found my
freedom."
Caine: "I was cold and she clothed me, I starved
and she fed me, I was mournful yet she
loved me.
I shed bloody tears and she made them disappear
she kissed away my fears.
Her powers I could see would forever
set me free
I begged her to awake me.
Her blood, sweet as wine, as I drunk she would sigh
then I closed my eyes.
Into the dark I fell and fell
a deepest abyss
surrounded by obscurity
a price for her gift.
Out from the frigid blackness
came a radiant glimmering light
revealing the flaming archangel
known as Michael"
Michael: "Cursed son of Adam,
indeed His mercy is great
bow thy head and repeat thine sins now
before it's too late."
Caine: "Not by His grace but my own,
I choose to live with pride
your "merciful" God disgusts me
his kingdom infested with lies."
Michael: "Yes sad irreverent fool
have thee no shame?
You shall forever fear the light
of the Living Flame."
Caine: "On the morning be silver wing
Raphael came to me and said
Abel did forgive me
not by his (forgiveness) but mine own
for darkness is my hime.
I walk alone
my skin would burn by the sun's rays I learned
and the dawn had returned to earth below
I did run seeking shelter from the sun
the endless night of Caine had begun.
When I awake, Uriel appeared
the reaper with black wings
but thrice denied his grace
hence, my blood-curse begins..."
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
My wrathful cries of anguish
filled that dismal night
I tore of my flesh and drank my crimson tears
When I glanced up
appearing in a myriad of stars
the illustrious Archangel Gabriel shimmered
like the moon in my eyes
bringing mercy even to the damned.
By why? Why?
He spoke of a path
The path of Golconda
from which my children could once again
inhabit the light.
Without another word, he disappeared
and I conceived
I had awakened at last.
The the bright-eyed demoness
taught me how to hide from the eyes
of those who dare to hunt us.
How to command obedience
and demand respect.
Soon I found myself attaining (yet) greater powers
I could after forms, control all beasts and perceive
beyond sight.
Eventually I had to abandon Lilith
and flee from the barren lands of Nod
set out to procreate my progeny
Caine's children shall inherit the night.
Of all my children, none so beloved
my sweet Zillah, none so desired
her tender skin, her blood so saccharine
I was mesmerized by her enchanting eyes.
But she would turn from me, she had no love to me
nothing I'd provide could keep her satisfied
so I took to roam the wilderness alone
Amid the whispering trees, a wrinkled crone I did see.
Crone: "My spell can make thee win her heart
Drink of my blood then we'll start."
Caine: "Her (foul) blood I drank for many nights
and Zillah indeed became my wife."
Crone: "The elixir hast bound thee
My serving thrall thou always be."
Caine: "But after a Year (and a day) her grasp (on me)
had gone
With a stake through the heart, I left her
to the dawn."
(Music: Aphazel and Alex Kurtagic | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
PER ME SI VA NE LA CITTA DELENTE,
PER ME SI VA NE L'ETTERNO DOLORE,
PER ME SI VA TRA LA PERDUTA GENTE.
GIUSTIZIA MOSSE IL MIO ALTO FATTORE;
FECEMI LA DIVINA PODESTATE
LA SOMMA SAPIENZA E'L PRIMO AMORE.
DINANZI A ME NON FUOR COSE CREATE
SE NON ETTERNE, E IO ETTERNO DURO.
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE.
THROUGH ME YOU ENTER THE WOEFUL CITY,
THROUGH ME YOU ENTER ETERNAL GRIEF,
THROUGH ME YOU ENTER AMONG THE LOST.
JUSTICE MOVED MY HIGH MAKER;
THE DIVINE POWER MADE ME,
THE SUPREME WISDOM, AND THE PRIMAL LOVE.
BEFORE ME NOTHING WAS CREATED
IF NOT ETERNAL, AND ETERNAL I ENDURE.
ABANDON EVERY HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER.
[text taken from Dante's Inferno]
Music: Aphazel
(Instrumental)
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
On the first day of Gehenna
the shrieking winds shall be silent
and when a black sun hangs from a samber sky
Caine's sleeping children shall once again arise
When antediluvians awake from eons of slumber
the strongest of us shall fall prey of their hunger
countless storms shall quake the earth
as the world turns icy cold
On the second day of Gehenna
our father shall return
and unite his wretched kingred
to the ebon throne of city Enoch
The vile culprits of diablerie
shall meet their diserved fate
to drink the scarlet tainted from the First-born
eating away their breathless bodies
And there shall be battle
Queen Lilith and the bastard
Fiendish legions ascending from the ground
And on the third day shall be silence
the next millennium antediluvians rule
but shall be borne a woman bearing lunar mark
the only key to our salvation...
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
I slept in the fires of Hades
But did not burn
I breathed in sulphorous vapors
to reach the astral plane
I tamed the three-headed Cerberus
then devoured his flesh
I stared deep at the face of the Gorgon
and made her turn to stone
I made love to Proserpine
her desires fulfilled by serpent tongue
I walked through the Stygian city
what majesty my eyes beheld
I slaughtered the giant Chimaera -
to taste its bitter venom
I shot an arrow into the eye of the Cyclops
the earth shook as he fell
I called the mighty Kraken
and watched him rise to my bidding
I soared on the wings to the great Dragon
to feel the infernal wind
I hunted the enchanted unicorn
to obtain its horn of power
I entered the labyrinth of Daedalus
and slayed the ferocious Minotaur
I came as the great star
to ignite the blaze of the Phoenix
I'll came to you in the shape of Incubus
and plant my deadly seed
Music: Lord Kaiaphas
(Instrumental)
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
Eurus, we call upon the east wind
Notus, we call upon the south wind
Zephyrus, we call upon the west wind
Boreas, we call upon the north wind
Spirit mother hear thy pagan son
On winter solstice night
waxing moon reveals a new dawn
(The) dark king transforms to infant light
the cycle of ancient times has begun
IO'EVOHE we are reborn
Candlemass brings the (growing) child sun
the triple cames shining down
as witches sing with inspirations
spiral dancing round and round
The spring equinox rises high
(The) dark maiden returns to us
the woods abound with faery goblins
Pan performs his songs of lust
Rejoice in the beltane sabbat
when lilac perfumes this magickal night
naked we leap the sacred fire
and feast upon fruits and violet wine
On the day of summer solstice
the sun king will embrace the litha queen
and perish in the wake of Lughnasad
so may a splendid harvest be reaped
On Mabon we follow the lord of shadows
the empty season is upon us
Lady Autumn blows leaves of sadness
clanting as our offerings turn to dust
Ancestor wraiths ride on Samhain night
to proclaim the mystery of passing
wearing a death cloak smiles the waning king
let us see what the future will bring.
Death is rebirth
the end brings new beginning
ever turning
the wheel of the Pagan cycle
Anadia...Klephera...Nuit...Mercury...Hestia...
Horus...Brigit...Vulcan...Aphrodite...Ea...Isis...
Neptune...Ceres...Adonis...Shakinah...
Akasha...IO EVOHE!
(Music: Aphazel | Lyrics: Lord Kaiaphas)
Goat horned god
wandering free in the woodlands and mystical forests
to thee I owe my manhood
for thine sexuality is untamed and pure
Satyr-king for centuries worshipped
a legacy born in the bosom of man
lust beyond love, love beyond lust
ruler of nymphs I praise thee
The wilderness is yours
I great son of Herme and lovely Dryope
When Arcadians gather and sing
the sweet sound of your pipe
will resound through the night
beyond wide valleys and streams
Thou make all wood-nymphs run with fright
with thine phallus awe-inspiring
like Dionysus and Cernunnos
the Muses sing in thine glory
I am one of thousand in the flack
Be my shepherd, guide my cock
on universal Pan
reveal thyself to me, make me mad