Akhlys Melinoë 1. Somniloquy Oh, bleak muse Speak now through me The speech of dreams My somniloquy Dream, dream, dream Dream of the night That sees That speaks That shines! Dream, dream, dream Dream of the darkness That seeks That seethes With terror divine! And guide my soul As the night bird born Upon Deimosian winds Through the Gate of Horn Dream, dream, dream Dream of the dead That stir Awaken And rise! Dream, dream, dream Dream of the daemons Of absence And void Where my night bird flies To join in dread And Eros forlorn Wed I with Other From dusk 'til morn In the Devil's Hours When the place of slumber Becomes the wasteland of dreams There in the absence you appear Suspended above me in silence Casting Death's Eye upon me You still my form And draw out the night bird from within me To fly upon winds of terror and ecstasy Oh, bleak muse Speak now through me The speech of dream My somniloquy 2. Pnigalion From the strangled breath Of my bodies' corpse-like repose I was reborn on wings of Death And from that gasp arose To alight on winds Tartarean Across the gulfs of Erebos In flight declined Hesperian To the throne of Icelos As Noctua I flew to seek As dread and sacral bird To pluck the eye with beak And steal the sacral word The true-sworn name of Daemon The Secret hidden within the Lie Unknown by priest of layman And learned that name was I... As naught is the aspect of the one Who comes before me Naught is the name of the one Who resides within me Adorn me with twain minded mask Of Janus Oh, Gatekeeper Ceremented in paradox Sable on shadow I see you! Radian in waves of darkness Black static scintillations Cascading abyss Drown me in madness Furoris divinales Raise me from my flesh As you awaken the Son of Pan Within me Sardonic Mask of Night Beneath which is no-thing Nous of the Void Form-changer Shade shifter Syrinx Piper of Death's Silence Ceremented in paradox Shadow of Midnight 3. Succubare Nymph of Mother Night Shining in darkness Specter of Her fury Daughter of the Black Moon In dire conubium Double formed Author of mania I incite thee As we rise lunatic In conjubilant dread A sermon spoken in the silent tongue of Death Whose wisdom is terror A terror that opens The vistas of Night Divine Oh, Shepherdess of the Abyss You have led me And there is nowhere I have not been... 4. Ephialtes Soriktis Nox! Soriktis Nox! Accessum - recessum! Accessum - recessum! Soriktis Nox Shepherd of Midnight Soriktis Nox Lanternarius of Dark-light And here I lie Celebrant of my own terror Accessum - recessum The Laughing Self-enchanter Breathe in! Breath out! I exhale thee! Oh, my Black Geminus Rise up! Bow down! Come before me! And king me with terror's crown And you are my mirror Silent echo of the Nightside Sould Emissary of the Dreaming Darkness Pierce me with the gaze of Algol Take me below This terror extolled Raise me upon madness That throne of old Bestower of panic Father of All-fright Ecstatic mad furor Clothed in midnight Breathe in! Breathe out! I exhale thee! Oh, my Black Genesis Rise up! Bow down! Come before me! And king me with terror's crown Soriktis Nox! Accessum - recessum! Soriktis Nox! Accessum - recessum! 5. Incubatio Above me The stars scream in silence Withdrawing from the Gorgon's Eye Below me! Below me! Calling me down and down The Syrinx wails in darkness Yet I have sacrificed Self to Self Yet I have fed Self to the Dreaming Gods I have become Incubo! And my aspect is horror Her dreadful piping Awakens the shadow within me In conjugal madness Seedthe Death's Head Womb Of all succubi Before the mare-headed queen Drawn unto Phigalian Darkness The rider becomes the steed By way of the sinister will A shadow formed in dream Reborn as a Son of the Night Terrible, wild and free! Nameless with a thousand names Formless with a thousand forms Yet I name you my queen And take you as concubine Gorgo! Incubo! Syrinx! Combined now as one I have become Prince of Three Dreaming Worlds I am within you all!