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As the serpent swells with the stormy seas,
The waves explode like a wrathful volcano
Oh Six-headed Dragon from the depths beneath,
Rise up, rip apart the flesh of a thousand sailors
Scylla and Charybdis
Curse you Circe
Mighty Sorceress
With your hand,
You poisoned the beauty
Lured with the smell of human blood,
Dancing upon the black waters
Shakes terror and awe
Malicious charm, impenetrable skin
Grope and pile, unearthly flood
Towering high, in rage she stood
Feared but not admired.
Curse you Circe
Mighty Sorceress
With your hand,
You poisoned the beauty
Creator of Horror
Bringer of misery
You transformed a Nymph
Into.... Scylla
Scylla and Charybdis
As the whirlpool opens like a hazardous feast
The waters are swallowed into a black abyss
Α hideous bladder of a monster,
What an uncontrollable thirst for the sea.
Faithful daughter, untrusted niece
How many lands did you yearn to win?
Everyday, three times a day
Sucking tones of sea, swallowing passing ships
King of Gods
Oh Powerful Zeus
How much rage
Can you unleash for the fools?
Thunder God
Destroyer of Titans,
You transformed a naiad
Into.... Charybdis
Scylla and Charybdis
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Mardyakhor
06:33
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Mardyakhor
In ancient times had given birth
Great Man Eater
From the deepest bowels of the Earth
Great Man Eater
None more fearsome than the Manticore.
Spits poison blood and stops men's hearts.
Face of human being
A triple row full of teeth
Lion's Blood-red body
With a voice that rips
Mardyakhor - Mardyakhor
Tail whipping, toxic darts
Great Man Eater
A hybrid of scorpion with man
Great Man Eater
Trailing the pungent smell of decay
Great Man Eater
Terrifying Persian Beast
Great Man Eater
None more fearsome than the Manticore.
Spits poison blood and stops men's hearts.
Faster than a thousand winds
yearning for human bones
Trumpet voiced, with eagle wings
So fearless
Mardyakhor – Mardyakhor
Horrid roars
Strong and tall
pierced by bows
Fearsome!
Hermetic broods
Ghastly wounds
Guardian of catafalques
Manticore!
With blood of goats
and blood of steers
bound with cords
Monstrous Schism
Hideous breath
abnormal strength
unleashed beast
Manticore!
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The gift that shook the gods
And led to the greatest conflict
Of those ancient times
Bloody siege of belligerence
Desperation amid survival
All cunning used to breach the citadel
Resistance for a woeful decade
And yet at last the gates were opened
And death streamed into the city of Troy
Armed Achaeans in the streets
Trojans slaughtered in cold blood
The cold shock of sudden death
And silence reigned over all
The war has been lost
Bloodied corpses strewn
Citadel in ruins
Desolation of a people
That bloody nightmare flickering
Steel and fire alight
Cutting through the bodies
Toppling the gods from plinths
Ungodly desecration
Temple raped at the guardian’s feet
Profanation of the sacred
Torn out all sanctity
Women sacrificed
Infants thrown to death
An ancient dynasty
Slaughtered
Piercing cries cleave the air
Misery incarnate
Mourners double up
Wretched howling forms
Into bonds as slaves
Existence a nightmare
Denied burial rites
Noble city dies
Great walls that stood
Majestic kings who reigned
The glory of temples where we looked skywards
Bloodlines that ran centuries
Legends built in stone
The city whose life runs through our bones
Desecrated by fire and death
Raped and brutalized
Last survivors sold as flesh
Hear this last lament
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Death to All False Oaths
04:39
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Spawned by wrathful castration
Born in a burst of blood
They who are endless
They who embody jealous rage
They of vengeful destruction
In chthonic shades
Dwell the Furies
Wreaking vengeance on men
Swearers of false oaths
Hounding culprits
By bloody scourge
The ceaseless search
For just retribution
They of twisted form
Eyes all agape
On wings of filth
Like vengeful arrows
From chthonic shades
Burst the Furies
Wreaking vengeance on men
Swearers of false oaths
Relentless persecutors
Fatal end inviolable
From below the Earth
Infernal eagle deities
Divine vengeance on blackened wings
Hunger to repay the atrocity
Matricide gone unpunished
Torment the perpetrator
Declaration of the goddess
Divine justice on blackened wings
Glory of pursuit
From the chthonic depths
Burst the terrible Furies
Grasping tooth and nail
For vengeance at all costs
Charged as protectors
With souls of desecrators
Ripping tooth and nail
Death to all false oaths
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Devourer of Men
08:53
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From the Titan of the sea
Of massive limb and strength
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Enemy of men
Landed here from merciless ocean
On the rocky shore we crawled
Starved and thirsting, grown haggard
Our journey never ends
A dim cave espied
A refuge from the blazing sun
Victuals and water
To sustain our weariness
Great shadow filled the door
A beast of human form
Single staring eye in his forehead
With crashing step he strode
Striking terror in brave hearts
Heaved a boulder across the cave
And devoured two comrades
The sound of crunching bone
Blood spurting from mouths
Macerated features
Inhospitable cannibal
Each night kept prisoner
Each day the fear of being eaten alive
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Devourer of men
Human stench filled the cave
Polyphemus the Cyclops
Devourer of men
The slop of organs in the dirt
Beaten asleep by fumes of wine
In pool of putrid blood he slumbered
Fire-hardened stake our ploy
Ten men to lift the weapon
And in the night as he slept
Plunged into his awful eye
The great monster roared in pain
Sightless with dark foaming blood
Thrashing out with rage
Bellowing to the mountains:
“I am Polyphemus who you blind
Son of Poseidon the Titan
By all my force and strength
I will be your death”
In mortal fear we cowered
The longest night in that cave of rotten blood
When daylight dawned pale
The blinded Cyclops arose
In agony counted precious rams
As they passed the cave mouth
Seething with humiliation
Yet seeing not the truth
Of every man passing him
Concealed beneath the rams
Sought the cruel ocean again
And casting off from shore
Cast a yell upon the wind:
“We are the legend who took revenge
On the devourer of men”
With inhuman strength
He hurled a boulder and roared:
“Polyphemus, son of Poseidon
Lays a curse on thee”
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Where five rivers run
Into an abyss of perdition
Souls flow forever downstream
The tongue bears a coin
Payment for a final journey
Towards the realm of Hades
Acheron of sorrow
Cocytus of lamentation
Phlegethon of fire
Lethe’s oblivion, hate of the Styx
Descending into Tartarus
Great dungeon of torment
Primordial entity
Nine days below the Earth
Sisyphus the guest-slayer
Incestuous seducer
Trapped Thanatos in his own chains
Death on Earth was stalled
Threatened to submission
Amidst improper burial
Punished in eternity
Struggling up mountain paths
Straining at a boulder
Eternal frustration
Suffering in the depths
With no friend to hear their cries
Bound and strapped to the rocks
As vultures feast inside
Tantalized by hanging fruit
Pure water recedes with thirst
Lashed on a burning wheel
Misery for all time
Mysteries of godly justice
Meted out eternally
Titans banished and trapped
A void that breathes and never dies
Tartarus for incurable sinners
Destined to rot in cognizance
Shades of heroes wander despondent
In greying fields of listless Asphodel
Isle of blessed Elysium
Where the good of heart will dwell
Hecate stands at the crossroads
Where three roads diverge
Drink of Lethe all ye deceased
And erase all knowledge of life
Traipse your way to the crossroad
Where three roads diverge
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Glorius Return
05:07
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Twenty years’ wait
For a glorious return
Nine dozen men arrayed in gluttony
Feeding on a broken household
Plotting an adultery absurd
Indolence and avarice
Weaving a funeral shroud
Quick-witted duplicity
Daily inventions of tact
Nocturnal unravelling
Loose lips spill the secret
And the time has come
A strange man enters the house
Abused in his own home
Filthy beggar met with jeers
Abased and tormented
But now the time has come
Penelope weaves another spell
Lays a challenge down for all:
“Take my husband’s bow and shoot
Twelve axe heads to my heart”
Each suitor in turn
Strung the formidable bow
Cut his hands on the strings
And shaking with strength, failed
That strange man stepped forward
Strung the huge bow with ease
Wondrous strength tightened strings
And through twelve axe heads shot
Eyes gleaming in furious victory
Turned the bow on nine dozen men
Arrows rained like burning fire
Piercing callous hearts
Chaos rampant in the great hall
Massacre of unfaithful lies
With brute force he declares
The master has come home
Twenty years’ wait
For a glorious return
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