[ Part I - Hall Of Saurian Entombment ]
Through Subterranean Labyrinths of Catacombs
We Hath Crawled To Gather in this
Dimly Lit
Hall Of Colossal Proportion
Which Few Ever See
Along Black Walls
Rise Tier after Tier of Carven Painted
Sacrophagi
Each Standing in a Niche in the Stone
The Mounted Tiers Rising Up
To Be Lost in the Gloom Above
Thousands of Carven
Masks
Stare Down Upon Us
We Who are Rendered Futile and Insignificant
By This Vast Array of the Dead
[ Part II -
Invocation To Seditious Heresy ]
And Here I Stand
I who would be master of the Black Earth
Have summoned you here
secretly
You who are faithful to me
To share in the Black Kingdom that shall nr
Tonight we shall witness
The breaking of the
chains which Enslave us
And the birth of a Dark Empire
Who am I to know what powers lurk and and Dream
in these murky
Tombs
They hold secrets forgotten for three thousand years
But I shall Learn They shall teach me
See how they sleep staring
through their
Carven Masks
Priests Monks Acolytes Kheri Heb Rekbi Khet
The Mummified Remains of the Sacrificial Whores
of The
Cannibalistic Serpent Cult s of Thirty
Centuries With Black Incantation and Foul
Necromantic Art
Propitiated with the Blood of
the Living
We will waken them from their long Slumber
The Ancients knew Nay Commanded the
Words of Power
And shall teach them
to Me
I shall restore them to Life
To Labour for my own Dark Imperial Desires
I will Waken Them Will Rouse Them
Will learn
their forgotten Wisdom
The knowledge locked in those withered Skulls
By the Lore of The Dead
We shall Enslave the
Living
Pharaohs and Priests long Forgotten
Shall be our Warriors and Slaves
Who will Dare to Oppose Us
Out of the Dust shall
Avaris Rise
[ Part III - Destruction Of The Temple Of The Enemies Of Ra ]
Foul Enemies of Ra who have Rebelled
Malicious
Fiends
Spawn of Inertness Impotent Rebels
Nameless Filth
For whom Blazing Pits of Fire have been prepared
By the Command of
Ra
Down Upon your Faces
You are overthrown
Your Skulls are Crushed in
You are Destroyed Annihilated
Gashed with Flints Your
Windpipes Cut
The Joints of your Backs are Rent Apart
The Fire of the Eye of Horus is Upon You
Searching You Consuming
You
Setting you on Fire Burning you To Ashes
Unemi The Devouring Flame Consumes You
Sekhmet The Blasting Immolation of the
Desert
Maketh an End of You
Xul ur
Adjugeth you to Destruction
Flame Fire Conflagration Pulverize You
Your Souls Shades
Bodies and Lives
Shall Never Rise Up Again
Your Heads Shall Never Rejoin your Bodies
Even The Words of Power
Of The God
Thoth
The Lord of Spells
Shall Never Enable you to Rise Again
[ Part IV - Ruins ]
I knew they were Accursed
so
remote were these nameless desert ruins
Crumbling and inarticulate the debris of
its collapsed walls was
Nearly hidden by the
sands of the uncounted ages
It must have been thus before the first stones of
Memphis were laid
And the bricks of Babylon
unbaked
Fear spoke from the age worn stones
This desolate survivor of the Deluge
This crumbling antidiluvial ancestor
Of the
Eldest Pyramid
Only the grim brooding desert Gods
Knew what really took place here
What indescribable struggles and
bloodshed
Awoke some distant throng of condemned spirits
And broke the tomblike silence of these crumbled
Time ravaged remains
these night black ruins
Of some vanguished and buried Temple of Belial
But as the Night wind diad away
Above the desert rim
rose the
Blazing edge of the morning sun
Which in my fevered state
I swore that from some remote depth there came a
Great
crash of metal
Like a great Bronze gate
Clanging shut whose reverberations swelled out
To hail the rising Sun as Memnon hails
in
From the banks of the Nile
[This four-part epic is a tale very much inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, and to a lesser degree,
Robert E. Howard. It tills the story of a rebellions Serpent cult who are plotting to overthrow Pharonic rule. They are attempting to
raise the spirits of the ancient dead, to barness thei arcane knowledge and build an army of undead legions. The story takes place within
the subterranean main ch.mber of the crypts of mummified reptiles (true enough, archaeologists have indeed unearthed entire necropolises
containing thousand of mummified crocodiles, serpents, ancient Nile monitor lizards, and various other animals that were worshiped as
personifications of the gods they represented). Within these dark and bloodstained halls are not only the remains of three millenia of
generations of priests and worshippers, but also the mummified corpses of all manner of glorified reptilian deities. The leader of these
rebels is standing in the midst of this vast array of Saurian entombment, inciting insurrection and preparing for some sort of violent
revolution. Their ill-fated sedition comes to naught, however, when their temple is destroyed and they are all slain in a catastrophic
violent climax. Whether this is perhaps divine intervention and retribution by the Sun god, Ra, or perhaps military action by the armies
of the Pharaoh (who is a worshipper of Ra) putting down a violent rebellion, or merely the indiscriminate vengeance of the undead that the
conspirators were seeking to enslave, is unclear. The passage that tells of the descruction and demise of the rebel fiends is reminiscent
of the magickal/religious ceremony in The Book of Overthrowing Apep, in which the terrible monster serpent Apep is forever crushed by the
Sun god, Ra, nver to rise up again. In the aftermath, all that is left of the Temple, the Serpent Cult and their subterranean catacombs of
the tombs is a mass of rubble and forgotten ruins which are eventually covered over by the sands of time, explainined in a passage that
borrows quite literally from The Nameless City by H.P. Lovecraft.]
