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Beneath the layers of complex genetics
Lies a sequence within me
Artificial enhancements grafted to augment slavery
In pursuit of perfection
Reprogramming our minds
Evolving us
To be as one
Leading the path to our own free will
Descending far beyond the sun and moon
First interaction with man
Performing acts of sorcery before us all
Planting their seed to make us whole
The astromancers passed down their knowledge onto me
With the news of my presence to all of this last colony
All have come to witness my augmentation
Performed by the seven descendents of this realms last creators
I hope to gain the power to move forward from a burning past
Escaping the images of those I've lost
And those I've loved
Gone forever
Due to the plauge of hate of man
Upon the red horizon the seven sages hold their rite
They stand and gaze in silence this aura around me stops the pain
Set free of hate and sorrow
Seeing what was blind to me
A new path that I must follow
To journey onwards towards a new destiny
There is an unknown
Feeling coursing through my veins
No words to describe
My perceptional enhancement
Irrational ways
Of thinking seems to not exist
Emotions and logic growing attuned.
Upon the red horizon the seven sages hold their rite
They stand and gaze in silence this aura around me stops the pain
Set free of hate and sorrow
Seeing what was blind to me
A new path that I must follow
To journey onwards towards a new destiny
Fading away
Passing through an endless plane of emptyness
Awakened in a shell and new sense of consciouness
The sages final design of the human mind is now done
What have you done
Granting this slave
More than what was
Already given
This descendant of primative terrans
We enslaved eons ago
He should have been amongst the extinction
Instead we grant him higher power based upon a false spoken prophecy
Send him to the cave of Enki to rot for all eternity
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Scars
02:23
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The Anunnaki Trials
04:40
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Time has come to prove your worthyness before the gods of creation
Of all human nations
Breaking free from yourself limitations
Will unlock the path towards worlds and infinite
Dimensions
To some of us we percieve you as a god
But to us you're nothing more than a
Slave
A trial set forth to verify the astromancers claim
The chosen one descendant from the ancient
Slaves
Within this cave
Your mind may deconstruct
Leaving you inside a maze
Empty shell
Spirit crushed
You choose this path willingly
To seek the answers you never seem to find
For they are all lost in time
Fate will act on its will no matter the cost despite the acts of those who try to interfere
In my life I have seen battlefields created by savages consuming all leaving Earth
A sphere of flame
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Cavern of Souls
04:05
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Upon my descent
I fear the coming of death awaits me down in this abyss
Searching for the artifact that calls for me only to be
Pulled in deeper
In this hell
The radiance of ambient light
Reveals the construct utilized for sacrifice
The ancient sages extracted the life of all the weak
To conquer all enslaving life through power and deciet
This place is overwhelming
With fear and hatred
A sense of lurking fills my mind as I travel deeper
Only to be engulfed
By the mouth of darkness
The radiance of ambient light
Reveals the construct utilized for sacrifice
The whispering voices in your mind lead you to the bottomless lake
Where life continued after being tossed in the cave
Entrapped in this cavern of souls
Falling deeper
Take my hand
To fulfill the prophecy the gods planned
Blood of the gods run through your veins
To the temple of Shammash we must go
A path to transcendence we bestow
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Prepare the ziggurat for the ritual with haste
The rise of the seventh star is upon us to initiate
The prophecy spoke that if the ancient humans of Earth returned
That they must be remade in the image that they percieve
Unbound by the chains of death to live free
To walk this realm from here to eternity
By the guiding hand reached out to you by the astromancers to devise
Your journey to the gate that leads to a place where the soul and flesh divide
The prophecy must be fulfilled the final wish of the gods
Endured tribulation is the price to pay to reach a place beyond the stars
Amongst the divine
Nuska ignite the holy flame to illuminate this night
Gather sand and stone to build a tomb to begin the rites
Leave an opening so that starlight reaches in
To allow alignment of the sunlight with his eyes
At dawn the ritual will begin
He would have lived to die and die to live in another life and time
The beginning of a new epoch lies before us post this day
Desecrated life by servitude left behind
Reincarnation will guide the way
I sit entrapped by stone and fear
Gazing out awaiting for the rise
The sages chant as I close my eyes
To feel her grace one more time
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6. |
Horizon of Infinity
04:51
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Hypnotizing voices
Resonating in my mind
They speak of a time before the birth of gods
Who gave the Earth creation of mankind
Transcending pathways
To achieve soul divinity
To be the god
That once was prophesied
To be the guide
For man
The final time for transcendecy draws near
Polarization
Stare into the void
Await the solar rays of Shamash and behold
The power of light
The light that shines through the verse
To enforce
Justice for all
May the gods guide me as I walk through the storm
You're never alone
In life or death
I'll lay next to your soul
Search and you'll find m
In the horizon of
Infinity
Preparations for the rise of the seventh sun
To perform the ritual
To transcend to a place beyond where no one returns
In hopes to achieve intellegence of
What lies beyond
I
Won't stop searching for where life exist
Beyond the reach of death's grip
I
Must wait for the seventh sun to rise
To allow my flesh to die
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I await in solitude for the final rise
I transition in and out existance until
I can find a way for the
Rays of the seventh sun
To transcend me past the point of life and death unto a
Whole new transdimension
Destinations lie before my wake
Everything around me seems to gravitate towards the energies of death
A final chance for mankind to be rebirthed and build anew
A new form of life awaits me
Distant solar rays detach my flesh
The piercing solar rays
Detaches my flesh from soul
Solar rays
Detach
My flesh from sou
One last step I take before I dive into nothingness
I'll find
A way to unlock the secrets
Within this life throughout space and time
I await in solitude for the final rise
I transition in and out existance until
I can find a way for the
Rays of the seventh sun
To transcend me past the point of life and death unto a
Whole new transdimension
Destinations lie before my wake
Everything around me seems to gravitate towards the energies of death
A final chance for mankind to be rebirthed and build anew
World with no love or hate
Simplified directive to
Prevent
The repetative acts of man
Prove to the gods that humankind
Is meant to be
Humankinds presistance
To survive despite
Destroying the lands of the Earth
Seveth sun allow me
To venture to
Places far beyond
Reanimate existance
Reconstruction of the framework of the gods
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8. |
Chapter III: Adamu
03:15
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9. |
Neo Eden
04:17
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I
I understand what it means to be forsaken
With limited time
With this enigma we call existance.
Nothing matters over time
With this knowledge
I will rebuild
What was lost throughout time
Reinforce the rebirth
Salvage all to recreate
Plant the seeds of creation
Build the foundation strong so that life may thrive
Longer than previous
Ones of past
That the gods created with designs to fail
As I walked amongst the gods
They told me how to build their creations
Flawed designs based upon their own cognition
Will never rise again
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I journey forth towards the sacred sands
In search of the forbidden oasis
To consume the fruit to alter my spiritual connection with this plane
My desire to revist
The realm of death
To search for
The one I love
The one I lost
I heard her voice as the sun took my soul
I'll journey onwards to retrive her from beyond
Baptismal cleansing in the pool of Abzu
In preparition to bind with the grains
Of sand I lay motionless with a thoughtless mind
Awaiting to be amongst the dead
My body feels of emptyness
I feel a pull from all around
Sinking further within the ground
Dissolving slowly in the sands
Think of the time way before the defeat
Remember when we sailed the Earth seas
Bring the memories back to life
Forget the legacy left behind
Look for me
In times before the great tragedy
Allow the natives to guide your soul
Within this realm for you will see
The infinite paths the dead travel through
All roads will lead you here
Look for me
In times before the great tragedy
Approaching a silhouette of someone I love
Without a doubt I knkw it's truly her
Take my hand so I can bring you back
Start a new life in world that remains intact
Why won't you take my hand
My tether has begun to pull me
I feel my time is up
To release you from this realm
I cannot be set free from death
I'll reincarnate when it's my time
Think of the time way before the defeat
Remember when we sailed the Earth seas
Bring the memories back to life
Forget the legacy left behind
Look for me
In times before the great tragedy
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11. |
Terra Harnae
07:30
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Traversing what was once the land that took part in creating life
That spread across the vast universe
Navagating throughout time and space utilizing
Ancient instruments left behind by the gods
In pursuit of salvation
To unite all nations
Fulfilled by conquering
That gave birth to the unexpected outcomes that lead to their demise
As I entered the kingdom of sand
I found myself trapped in this ravenous wasteland
I entered the city that fell
In search of creations of dimensional travel
Discovering the secrets of the gates used by the gods to
Travel to other realms ruled by the eldar gods
Sharing knowledge and technologies to advance each others races to
Be amongst the elite in the known universe
In pursuit of salvation
To unite all nations
Fulfilled by conquering
That gave birth to the unexpected outcomes that lead to their demise
There is no other way
But to travel through the gate
If death awaits me on the other side
Shall he grant me passage through all of time
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