Atlantean Kodex - Sol Invictus (With Faith and Fire)

In this holiest of seasons, twelve nights betwixt the years The silence of winter is all-consuming Our homesteads lie sleeping the old folks are watchful Gruesome tales of corn-demons to forewarn the young Over the mountain, to the hidden temple Where the pillar of flames shall be summoned by the priest On through the biting frost and the wind-driven snow A belling of stags echoes in the woods In this ice-cold Solstice night death and resurrection await To invoke the rebirth of the sun From darkness grows light, from ashes a fire to conquer the cold The rites of Yuletide defying the times - The virgin-born child Sol, Sol Invictus - Shining Guardian of the west In saecula saeculorum - Conquer with fire and with faith A solemn pilgrimage through nightclad wintry woods Ghosts of winter screaming to lure us all astray Neolithic magick, wisdom without words Bloodbound memories pierce the gossamer veils of time In this ice-cold Solstice night death and resurrection await And summer shall free our soil From darkness grows light, from ashes a fire to conquer the cold The rites of Yuletide defying the times - The virgin-born child Sol, Sol Invictus -- Shining Guardian of the west In saecula saeculorum -- Conquer with fire and with faith Blood-sacrifice for the three-fold goddess Summon the Goat with a Thousand Young Mithras Invictus Jesus Christus Fire brings cleansing, fertility through death Mummers rage through snow covered villages Reaping the souls of the careless and young Domina Perahta grant us good harvest In barter for the blood of one third of our youth The sunwheels are rolling, the hillside's on fire From Albion to Attica old Europe's ablaze Unbroken tradition, neolithic bloodline The Horned God approaches, the chanting now fades Il dyi ei ischturien. Ei ven ad esser sarain. Ei ven freid. Dieus mora! At the standing stones the scythe will set him free Bound to the oak, the Kingpriest's life for our creed A crown of mistletoe, reborn for all to see For a new year, in a red dawn, as the new sun Sol, Sol Invictus - Invincible sun of the west In saecula saeculorum -Conquer with fire and with faith From Attica's green pastures to Albion's white shores From Thule's boiling geysers to the walls of Hagar Q'im Beneath the fragile crust of this modern age of reason A darker world lies waiting, primordial and pure Hidden in the shades from ratio's cold pondering to rise when the stars are right