Grave Miasma Abyss of Wrathful Deities 1. Guardians of Death Murals preside over the walls that stand Countless eyes protrude man Consorts aligned and at hand Await the loss of decay and form To the elder vessel now unborn Six deities man the gates of creation The liminal spaces where phowa resides Sailing through the fiery rivers Fortresses of the Dharmapala Promulgation of psychic continuity Through the liminal spaces I traverse Narrow gateway to vast portals Vortices of the unknown Yamantaka destroys the cycle In many forms, the conqueror Multiplied in nature, stronger than death Eight in number, they ward Protectors of the sacred law Guardians of death Conquerors of the internal nature Guardians of death Die with Phowa Solo – T Solo – Y 2. Rogyapa Solo – T Solo - Y From the distant plains he returns Descending through the Kora path The sacred dawn is marked by his presence Who aligns the stones that hold, not entomb Bare the shroud to the winds As juniper heralds the gathering Wield the swords, axe - fan the fire! Feed the alms of Jha’tor As the vultures congregate from higher They partake in the final lore. Bare the shroud to the winds As Juniper heralds the gathering Yield to the force of the Rogyapa He reveals to us the true nature Our flesh and bones are for carrion The final of sky burial The plains are no longer barren Offering the remains Ordaining crushed bones Chanting incantations Yield to the force of the Rogyapa He reveals to us the true nature Our flesh and bones are for carrion The final of sky burial As remains turn into nothingness Matter pummelled into dust Decomposition is immediate Libations offered by the dead to the living Solo - T The final act is benevolence As a figure traverses worlds What was all is now Sunyata Corporeality is unfurled 3. Ancestral Waters Call of the deceased In the horizon's thunder Hear distant murmurs that draw nearer In the abeyance of the master Soul above worlds and body under Departing the mundane Towards sacred and profane, the realm The devouring might of the grand arcane The womb that commands And yearns For reversion An intoxicated trance of the dark mother These are the ways of the call Rapturous ascent to death's dimension Through the fields of blood emanations, Reverberations of memory Leading our souls, reaping our souls Language of the dead Revealed to me: a harvest is gathered through veils of obscurity Ablaze by deepest suns "Mortality! Abandon!" Adrift in primordial oceans The one who no longer invokes fear I am the grateful servant Although I shall no longer be Carried on waves to vibrations of timeless thunder, Soul above and body under The shapeless sun and rolling Tundra Cry of the deceased To the decayed and unborn In ancestral waters Spirit visitations In ancestral waters Solo - T The sleepless dead The graves spread across the lands Venerated and purified remains Are opened In cosmic union of transmutation To the decayed and unborn In ancestral waters Spirit visitations In ancestral waters Solo - T 4. Erudite Decomposition As the sun rises above the pineal waters As the diaphanous tomb sails in reversion Relinquished are fragments of the immortal Feeling the mass of formless decay Eyes subside to towards black streams of dormancy Laid bare is the first stage of the body Astral form, a composition that is planetary Feeling the mass of formless decay Eyes subside to towards black streams Bare, the first stage of the body Astral form, a composition that is planetary Plumage of entrails unraveling in totality I consign my body to decay in four I claim the terrestrial fragments that are dehiscent Know that the fourth body sails in endless perdition Entombed by the eternal diadem To the return towards disembodiment Gateways reclaim the crystallised mass The void of dried bones As the sun rises above the pineal waters As the diaphanous tomb sails in reversion Relinquished are fragments of the immortal Leave this mimesis at the altar The vessel is votive, hurtling towards unknown gods Destroyer of solar spheres The third body extends towards the sun Solo - R Towards the stages of erudite decomposition 5. Under the Megalith From the Steppes south of Tuva Centre of Shamanic cults Animist signs On Khririgsuur Stones Gaping mouths The lives Of pursed vibrations realm Steel under the fortresses Calling forth spirit masters Depictions engraved on mounds What lies under the megalith Empire of fallen ones Eagles fly through the Steppes Voices from the depths The kingly shrines of the fallen graves Seeking worlds In fallen tombs Forces dreaming under the megalith Steel gleaming under the megalith From the Steppes south of Tuva Centre of Shamanic cults They lie in wait To be discovered Solo - T Remember terrain where the eagle flies Forces dreaming under the megalith Images engraved on the deer stones Voices from the depths The kingly shrines of the fallen graves 6. Demons of the Sand הלילה יורד במדבר הירח מלא ולבן החול נישא ברוח דיונות זוהרות באור ובצבע מקורות מים עתיקים נעלמו האדמה עקרה וסדוקה אני שומע קול מקבר אבוד אני עומד בהשתאות רוח נודדת שדים מקיפים אותי באוויר האדמה עקרה וסדוקה דיונות זוהרות באור ובצבע מקורות מים עתיקים נעלמו באושר ובפחד אני שומע את הקול באושר ובפחד אני שומע את שד המדבר ירח עומד מאחורי ענן אור עלום פורץ פני התהום החיזיון הוא תוהו ובוהו Solo - Y נסחפים מהשאול הם יחזרו 7. Interlude 8. Exhumation Rites They are presented alive, but not sentient The graves are not deep, the eye hollows not vast Remains in pumice reveals magnitude in decay To the beast that devours the carrion of vultures The guardian of maggots in swarming confluence To the stentorian bells that gather the masses To withdrawn bones from frayed caskets in obsequy rites Ancestral cults venerate subterranean species That devour bodies haltingly Revere the uneven mass of decaying bones Grant them life and offerings unto death Decreased flesh bows before the beasts of the tomb Species that breed only within Feasting upon the distorted simulacrum In view of exhumation rites Exhumation to appease the spirits of old Exhumation to view the mummified corpse Exhumation the scent of tomb mould To meet the ashen figure as the tomb reopens Dust shrouds the burial vestments As the hollowed eyes are not awoken Homage paid, through rites of Ma’nene Ascending to the Puya, sacred to the Toraja. Solo - R Before The last farewell Return to the ground Solo - Y Enter to the fate of the unknown Left at the altar of worms manifold Bodies lay in fragmented supine formation Asphyxiated by elemental strangulation Venerated in ritualistic exhumation 9. Kingdoms Beyond Kailash Heresy spreads across lands As Nestorians fled towards the Taklamakan Through Herat and the domes of Samarkand They rode towards the Indus Arduous journeys towards the eastern gate To reach new paradigms Deep in the caves of Gobian sands Silk Road scrolls unmasked the mystery The lost doctrines and subjugation of Tartary Of carvings in the Garuda Valley Rites passed through the land and the sea Beheld from cross to monastic veracity The empire of Gu-ge stands in its final glory Bearers of the cross perish in wake Not to surpass the land of the shrines Bearers of the cross perish in wake Not to surpass the land of the shrines The peak of Meru stands upright The peak of Meru Solo - Y The vajna strikes where the nimbus resides The yung-drung is stacked nine times Upon the mountainside of Kailash Mount of the subdued demons Kingdoms beyond Kailash Unsurpassed Solo - T The lake of light And the lake of demons The peak of Shiva, the great darshan May they remain unconquered forever