Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song In the Name of Amun, artist - Nile.
Date of issue: 27.08.2015
Song language: English
In the Name of Amun |
In the name of the God Amun I wage war |
North to Gaza I marched my armies of chariots and infantry |
Twenty thousand strong to crush as revolt of vassal states |
Rebellious kings of Kadesh and Megiddo |
Syrians allied with the Mitanni and Amurru |
Built their settlements taken over the trade route of the Dia Maris |
Through treacherous mountain passes to descend upon the Canaanites |
On the plain of Esbraelon we rode forth bringing carnage and death |
With chariot and composite bow |
Attacking in concave formation |
Vicious three winged piercing spearhead swiftly overwhelming both Canaanite |
flanks |
Fearlessly I smote their center |
Savagely we broke the enemy’s will |
Heavy slaughter and bitter suffering did we inflict upon them |
At the word of the God Amun I waged war |
In the name of the God Amun I sanctioned atrocities |
Wanton cruel remorseless in the name of the God Amun |
Surrounded scattered broken demoralized shamed defeated |
The rebels fled into the city of Megiddo |
Trapped like rats they closed the gates behind them |
Seven months we lay siege to Megiddo utterly breaking the league of rebels |
I Thutmose III. |
have brought doom upon the rebels |
Vicious and pitiless destruction have I inflicted upon the vanquished |
I have slaughtered the captives |
Slain the wounded, enslaved their women, massacred their populace |
Killed their people by the tens of thousands |
I have hacked up their lands, desolated their towns |
Cast fire into their dwellings caid settlements to waste |
I have made mounds of their cities |
Cut down their fields of grains, felled their trees |
Every resource of life have I denied them |
Their resettlement can never take place |
I have destroyed them utterly at the word of Amon Ra |