Lyrics The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty - Bal-Sagoth

The Sixth Adulation of His Chthonic Majesty

«O', great and luminous ones, who came from beyond the stars to slumber serene
beneath the earth of the third sphere, hearken to me!
Hear me, o' mighty one, o' great Khthon!
Awaken and hear my adulation, o' divine and glorious God of gods!
From thy hoary tomb thou shalt ascend, and the earth shall be enraptured by thy
majesty!»
«Khthon!
To the ancient Lemurians, you assumed the guise of a beautiful azure-skinned
woman with great black wings, to the Atlanteans, you manifested as a brilliant
fiery sphere of searing radiant energy, to the peoples of Ultima Thule and
Hyperborea, you took the form of a titanic crystalline dragon
Yet your true form is beyond the ken of men, darker than the blackest heart of
deepest night, more terrifying than the very essence of fear itself…
thou art terror incarnate!
From the timeless void you came, son of Z’xulth!
Glory to They-Who-Lurk-And-Breed-In-Limbo!»
Excerpts from translator’s cautionary notation:
«Behold these repositories of fearful arcane knowledge, tomes of aeons-old
cursed lore which was surely ancient even when the ill-fortuned antedeluvian
civilizations which initially articulated it first committed such dread
lexicons of terror to shuddering memory!
Fear these legendary encyclopaedia antedeluvia, these ebon necronomica of
shunned rites and diabolical adulations!
The Tome of Shadows, the Forbidden Books of the First Cataclysm,
the Epsilon Exordium, the Scrolls of the Third Circle, the Oracle of
Antediluvian Blasphemies, the Diabolist’s Lexicon, the Arcana Atra Libri,
the Thirteen Cryptical Prophecies of Mu, the Manuscripts of the Cultists of Ur,
the Chronicle of Shadows, the Black Bible of Kor-Avul-Thaa, the Ancient Book
of the Six Keys, the Cydonia Manifesto, the Index Librorum Prohibitorum,
the Star-Maps of the Ancient Cosmographers, the Cursed Books of the Z’xulth,
the Praxeum Codex, the Chthonic Chronicles!
I now know that there is something inestimably evil at large throughout the
cosmos
It is a ravenous and pitiless storm which rages across the universe,
permeating the very fabric of creation, existing simultaneously in all
dimensions, wholly unconstrained by linear time
This force is the black, quasi-sentient mana which sustains such ageless
revenants of the Z’xulth as the dread Dwellers in Eternal Shadow and the
unspeakable They-Who-Lurk-And-Breed-In-Limbo
When beings whose essences are intrinsically malefic choose to embrace this
darksome energy source, the resultant sinister symbiosis can be sublimely
diabolical, as evidenced by the black blight that was the infamous pseudo-human
sorcerer Lord Angsaar!
And of course, the malign Zurra, that abominable result of an experiment by the
Ersatz Ones gone disastrously wrong;
an ill advised attempt to clone the K’laa
genetic template of mighty Zuranthus in the Mera spawning vats beneath the
Pre-Cambrian sea, only for the matrix to become contaminated by the errant
cells of a captured fiend of Z’xulth!
The result was a prime fiend whose capacity for evil and wanton annihilation
was exceeded only by a penchant for self-agrandizement and his rampant
psychological instability
In many cases, the potential for ruination and domination that such entities
may aspire to is constrained only by their own physical and psychological
limitations, as the toll which the dark mana takes upon the host’s mind and
flesh is not insignificant…»