Tartaros - Avyctnes (Test Mix) lyrics

Since men is but mortal, did I
The genii of the sea

Since men is but mortal
I shuddered at the black writhing
Of submundane things from the many-volumed smoke

Since men is but mortal, did I
The neophyte, behold at first
The abhorrent and tremendous faces
Of them that obeyed Avyctes

The genii of the sea and earth
Of the stars and the heavens

I cried in horror at the grey foulnesses
Colossal, without form
That crowded malignly
About the drawn circle of seven colors

Threatening unspeakable trespass on us that stood at the center

But use and custom dulled the strangeness, destroyed the fear
And had held speech with the spirits of the sun

But Avyctes thirsted for a darker knowledge
A deeper empery

And into his hands, in the third year of my novitiate
There came the mirror-bright tablet of the lost serpent-people