Call of the Serapeum
Constraints of bastard worship a pandemic detriment Pallid ephemera in unfailing surrender Curved sword of an orphaned prophet arcing ever northwards To bleed dry the infidels and topple tents of Shem Nomadic infusion of Judea an intercession Papal scabs form in Constantinople Lashing gales from dusted plains are parried At a worm-eaten heart is aimed the requital Assume defensive formations Ranks rearguarded by the Loire Legions as edged partition Repulse encroaching hordes A desolating storm born of southern skies raging forth unchecked Hammer sweeps aside the clouds in combative deliverance Raiding horsemen ravage the land for plunder both lustrous and of flesh Pillage the meek places of worship Defile the wives and daughters of the harrowed Mock issuers of helpless commands Vessels of lineage despoiled in tribute Make sport of lugubrious wenches abroad Rois fainéants as leaves in a wind Pour over the Pyrenees in horrific waves Flay whelps into submission Like the trinity’s remote dispersions in skirted Byzantium So stretched thin marauders to lands Aquitainian Refrain Refrain Wolf pelts would cloak the warriors who assembled where rivers meet In blood and faith dwelled dissimilitudes to enable one to conquer the other Six days of battle Again and again came the Saracen charge Solidarity had been found in steadfast lines Cavalry deployed to the invading posterior Fractious results allowed manipulation As it was before minarets murmured Dementia usurped empyreal vanguards Hammer forged in blood of a century’s twilight Beat back a tide which ran aground in desert Refrain Refrain
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
A thin strait sequesters the continent Seven centuries since the accursed defeat In petty fratricide we failed to defend the southern frontier The ruined innumerable – The damage outspanning death From within nestled vipers struck, prospering as always through despair Glutted in thralldom by an eroding current From beyond the Ebro flowed an alliance Legal inoculations proved insufficient Plague mutates Clandestine union of monarchs Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile united Now of eagles and lions rampant we are Betraying nobility dethroned, their once regal castles fall Santa Hermandad rides as the ignoble are purged in resanctification Leavings in Granada attack Infanta, now with child, joins the front Artillery sent from allies abroad Armada isolates and prevents further helotry As Malaga is quashed all are assigned to serfdom One third will be spared to be used in barter Similar taints in the east may be taken from the rear should expeditions succeed Much of the future to be decided at sea Slowly we cleanse our empire Of eagles and lions rampant we are Conversos openly defile the peninsula Destiny exacts a heavy toll Rack extracted stipends Confessors soon to hear outlandish throes For vast new lands now fall beneath imperial hooves Plunder spills from our coffers Much is to be won
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Circle is formed in preparation for sacred nights twelve Shifting northwards - Arise from darkness Frigid silence embraced Hold high the hammer Giants’ breath Father aflame Mother of silver Helga ve thetta ok hindra alla illska Stand as that which drinks of Urd Ignite wicks to suffering Libations appease the Aesir Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring out the false, ring in the true Son of the tempest stiller returns Verdant again all will be Single eye looks on from Gladsheim She floats upon the waters of eternity He puts a bull to the sword Be in my thoughts and understanding Behold wheels ablaze To speak as lord of battle and victory Rise from four to know of Asgard Be at my side, in my departing Unbroken – turning on forever Endless dominion – self-devouring Intertwine with tri-rooted ash Divine light Life giving lion of red Swirling ascent from matter In radiance born anew Hearken throughout realms three by three Velle! Black scion of Mundilfare To blossom on upholding limbs Stoke again the hallowed pyre In honour depart transcendents Sumbel!
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Thought to appear as dreams Imperceptible in what are deemed the waking hours Edifice looms ahead Beckoning us to return Blood of martyrs seems still viscous In Archaen tongues come whispers of battles past Hear the call of the Serapeum Have we, ourselves, trod the prophetic soils? Images of Parabolan misery Galilean shells scrape pure flesh from bone Sphere binding beacon emerging Earlier glories exceed time and space to envelop immortal Chorus Through that ethereal extends the primordial basis of all being From cosmos fed Innumerably dammed streams Inescapable overlapping of dilatory obstacles Tributaries carve aeon-old paths Often erratic Yet invariably reabsorbing as one Heed the call of the Serapeum For these visions come not haphazardly Portentous temple blood abiding Rejoin ancient channels racing still Towards that which we have sought
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Factitious precursors of arbitrary nations Continental powers jostle for position War weary men observe grimly from flesh-rich gravesides First weapons are of words, descending like vultures then gone in an incendiary rain Isthmus soon choked with hundreds of thousands Five routes of invasion mark the beginning Clustered to fire at night Choosing the quicker of deaths Frigid immobilization Fodder for an alien creed Where murder upholds commands and enemies are saviours When the wounded become glacial statues of reticent desperation Who was it that predicted swift victory with little resistance? “Why?” they wonder as the warmth of their blood wanes to ice In heaps lay some while others fall in long rows Fanaticism well wielded deflects what seemed forgone Starved Frozen Massed for execution Weapons burden capitulating hordes What can possibly be offered to a people By a vanguard forsaken and forlorn? Gnawing beast from the steppes Human tide pliant yet unremitting Death invisible inducing fear of darkness Unable to pray even for an end Infiltrated encampments erupt perfervid blood frenzy No friend No foe No advance No retreat Attacks planned solely for dislodgment Layers of corpses triply thick Yet reinforcements seem inexhaustible as did the obstinant protectors Bombardments once inconceivable break now fabled lines Over fields of the fallen swarms a final thrust Self-inflicted wounds of Esau from a blade not his own
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
Below the world of men Progenitors Atlantean As we of Aldebaran Frigid return to Poseidon Supercilious zenith of the line of Abaris Portals through firmament And one in itself A fixity unimagined Hypogeal ascent Bearers of effulgent power Dormant in we their torpid kin Parallels in the unfoldings Of dominant civilizations Corollary both confirms and adjusts mankind’s hierarchy As eyes pierce time to see what could be The art of destruction in its highest form Annulling both alpha and omega Unleash might as of yet known as dreams Silence millenniums’ prattle Phosphorescent Soaring Contiguity comes as dawn to undue somnolence That below is closer to above leaves but deference Oh, how demarcations burn away Below the world of men Progenitors Atlantean As we of Aldebaran Hyberborean Bathed in the black sun’s light
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
No longer able to recognize themselves amidst the twisted heap Yet through this more receptive to the undercurrent’s prerogative Perfunctory attempts to revive a hoary corpse determined unbecoming Declaration of extinction accompanied by one of the departed’s noxious choke Repudiation alone remained for the pestilential congregation Fated deformity for all who partook in lunacies of Stygian twilight To establish a position from which defeat was an impossibility the first matter Like drifting mountains of ice, the main weight lay originally beneath the surface Long-range weapons and those of mass destruction were to be crippled As enemy offensive capabilities were lessened, a territorial imperative was given Designed to reach an initial peak citizenry of three million Precisely as the threat of attack was neutralized Covert soldiers ostensibly within enemy ranks would sabotage plans Arms and munitions captured through botched missions Allies of a fading power ulterior targets in terror campaigns With diplomacy a liability alienation prevailed Cities transformed into stained ossuaries Biological agents increasingly deployed from afar To assault muddled forces comparatively simple Divisive propaganda aggravated vacuous morale Like an inclusive radiance of ablution felling remaining billions Massed enemies and traitors Dwindling water supplies poisoned Liberated aircraft reigned free The few able minds left amongst outer peoples were not able to develop timely cures From the small surviving percentage would spring heirs to equilibrium A present lived for the future with a presence of past
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026
Flaming nascence From heights descending Princely derivation Dawn’s first light Sempiternal Processions spread Splendor burgeons Illumined Keys of Isis To gates of wisdom Cloaked and veiled From the profane Median of power Infinity’s lustral center Adjoining diametric preservation Monumental attestations shade the unfit Only that which has come down may again rise Homa imbibed Hands wring life from a sybaritic throat Acvamedha – sacrificial blood clouds billowing Of orders higher, yet in between The world his temple in which to immolate Addled totality bisected Mercurial equipoise Horned suckler of Jupiter will climb between twin towers Thoughts of the mind Deeds of the hand Words of the tongue Twice adorned with wings Through hanging gardens On columns flicker Out of one will return the source of might Mithras arise From behind Apis Of lightning conceived Dawn’s first light
Submitted by Nargaroth — Jun 19, 2026