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The black shroud the body is wrapped into.
The green leaves will be my skin until the end of existence
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Oh, Holy Zarathushtra!
If one bears with purity for the fire
the Aesma of the plant Vohukereti,
the fire of Ahura-Mazda
goes to fight a thousand times
against the invisible evil daevas
in all the directions
in which the wind
spreads the fragrance of the fire.
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Corpse-bearers will bring it to the vault
Before Nasu Daeva will enter it, all of them barefeet
Corpses of men
Corpses of women
Corpses of children
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Tower of Silence
Vultures strip the bodies of their flesh and bad deeds
Putrefaction
Insects and vultures, they act together
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Fire-temple
Purifying fire
Altar
Innermost sanctum
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One's body is becoming trees
The one's deeds become their leafs
Purified by fire and the mills of gods
Another human enters the garden
An epitome of evergreen and omnipresent
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Lime
caustic
disintegration
Washed away by rains.
Astodan! (ossuary)
Washed away into the sea
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Nasu
(avestan name of female demon of corpse matter)
Sagdid
(glance of the dog in funeral ceremony Zoroastrianism)
Gannag menog
(The stinking spirit)
Uta
(entity, who brings sickness through food and water)
Vizaresh
(entity that fights for the souls of the dead)
Ashmog
(entity created by sin of apostasy)
Mitokht
(entity created by sin of scepticism and falsehood)
supported by 17 fans who also own “Into.the.sempervirent.garden.of.flesh”
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
supported by 16 fans who also own “Into.the.sempervirent.garden.of.flesh”
Heaviest thing I’ve heard all year along with Altarage. Okay I’ve been listening to this record for the past two weeks and it just gets better and better. Dissonant grooves galore Jacob Ballance
Oakland, CA quartet LYCUS return with a new album on Relapse Records. Heavy, epic, mournful, and replete with art by Paolo Girardi. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2016