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Crown of Asteria - White Filth of Ravens

from SANITAS ANIMAE by SANANIM

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The song is based on this excerpt from the Greek Magical Papryi
“I myself saw Canidia, with her sable garment tucked up, walk with bare feet and disheveled hair, yelling together with the elder Sagana. Paleness had rendered both of them horrible to behold. They began to claw up the earth with their nails, and to tear a black ewe-lamb to pieces with their teeth. The blood was poured into a ditch, that thence they might charm out the shades of the dead, ghosts that were to give them answers. There was a woolen effigy too, another of wax: the woolen one larger, which was to inflict punishment on the little one The waxen stood in a suppliant posture, as ready to perish in a servile manner. One of the hags invokes Hecate, and the other fell Tisiphone. Then might you see serpents and infernal bitches wander about; and the moon with blushes hiding behind the lofty monuments, that she might not be a witness to these doings. But if I lie, even a little, may my head be contaminated with the white filth of ravens..” – from Q. Horatius Flaccus (Horace), The Works of Horace, C. Smart, Theodore Alois Buckley, Ed

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White Filth of Ravens

Fawn slayer speaker of woods
Guiding flame of the lost
Beast Mother from below
Congregate at Oak and Aster

Serpents coil round your neck
Gold crown eclipsed
Draped fangs of familiars

Enodia
Kleidoukhos
Lampadios

Corpse eater gatherer of
Henbane and Aconite
Lady of depths and shades
And White Filth of Ravens

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from SANITAS ANIMAE, released December 13, 2020
Music-Meghan Wood
Crownofasteria.bandcamp

Todd Paulson Chants/Backing Vocals/Lap Harp.
Canisdirus.bandcamp
Bindrunerecordings.com

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Od roku 1990 pomáháme lidem dostat se z bludného kruhu závislosti.

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