In Their Darkened Shrines Lyrics - Nile

[ 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 ] 

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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 

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[ 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.]