Wind Of Horus Lyrics - Nile

Ashu Give us Power 

To Oppose this Legion of Shrikes 

They hath Defiled our Monuments and Graves 

For their Greed of Treasure 

Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn 

We Are the Breath of Horns 

Hot as the Desert Wind 

We are Slayers and Reapers of Men 

By the Arrow Shot from Lanata 

You will Fall to your Knees Dead 

or Begging Quarter 

Torn to Shreds by Obese Vultures 

Fossilized in the Desert Sand 

We are the Breath of Horns 

Hot as the Desert Wind 

We are the Slayers and Reapears of Men 

You will Never Escape 

This Valley Gallala 

Left to Decompose 

Forbidden the Underworld 

Bemused by Battle Lust 

I Gash your Throat 

And Splatter your Blood 

Upon the Altar of Bes 

We Erect one hundred Pyramids 

With your Severed Heads 

Ashu Sehu Neferui Skhenn 

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[This song was inspired by a battle from a book caled River God by Wilbur Smith. The story takes place in the latter half of the 14th Dynasty, and is about a struggle to restore the majesty of the Pharaoh of Pharaohs. Tanus, leader of the mighties army of Egypt, the Blue Crocodile Regiment, hunted down and destroyed the Shrikes, a horrid nomadic tribe of thieves, rapists, and murderers that played the Egyptians. The title of the song, "Wind of Horus," refers to the name of the boat of the Blue Crocodile Regiment. It is an enchantment of the god Horus to cause the wind to blow the Egyptians' sails in time of need. The repeated chant in the song is to invoke the god Ashu, who robs the enemies of the Egyptians of their virtues, weakening and destroying them. The word Lanata is mentioned in the song. Lanata was a bow made for Tanus by Taita the slave and was made of wood, ebony, rhinocerus horn, and ivory tusks. The bowstring was made out of the guts of a lion that Tanus had killed with his bronze-bladed war spear. Tanus was probably the only one in his army strong enough to use the Lanata bow. It had so much tension that he had to use a different technique just to pull the bowsting back. Tanus practised until he could shoot three arrows at a time piercing the heaviest of armor.] 

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