The Epsilon Exordium Lyrics - Atlantis Ascendant - Bal-sagoth

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[From the journal of Professor Caleb Blackthorne III, discovered May 1899, near the great Temple at Tiahuanaco, Peru:] 

[23 September: 1893] 

Upon extensive examination of the nefarious arcane codex known as The Epsilon 

Exordium, I believe my search may at last be drawing to a close. Indeed, I 

feel that perhaps the great discovery which has eluded me for so long may 

finally be within my grasp. And yet I must be cautious, for twice more have 

I seen the figures in the night, watching me in silence from the confines of 

the darkness. I cannot discern their features, only that they are vaguely 

human in shape, save for their arms which seem abnormally long and oddly 

jointed. My native guides are becoming increasingly agitated and skittish, 

babbling incoherently about the guardians of the tombs... citing legends 

from their ancestral past which speak of mysterious travellers who reputedly 

came down from the stars in great silvern chariots drawn by steeds of flame. 

At any rate, I have my trusted Martini-Henry .45 calibre breech-loader 

should these silent stalkers prove malign and ever deign to lay hold of me 

in the night. I have at last translated the carvings on the stone fragment I 

unearthed amidst the ruins of Angkor Wat. To my astonishment, I found that it 

predated the construction of the temple itself by countless thousands of years, 

and that it spoke of the same subject as did the hieroglyphs I beheld on the 

wall of the concealed chamber which I and Lord Blakiston discovered within the 

Great Pyramid in Egypt. Successive examinations of the edifices at Giza and 

Karnak revealed further parallels too precise to be mere coincidence. The 

pieces of this great cosmic puzzle are finally beginning to fall into place... 

[2 October: 1893] 

Yes, it is as I suspected. I have long felt that the Sumerians of Mesapotamia 

were among the first peoples to attain elucidation concerning the dread matter 

I pursue. My excavations at Lagash, Eridu, and most notably the ziggurats at 

Ur, have revealed truths which subsequent finds at Angkor, Egypt and 

Sacsahuaman only serve to consolidate. I now know that the Olmechs, the Aztecs 

and the Mayans were also undeniably key tendrils of this grand global web, 

and the unnerving truth I hitherto felt compelled to deny now seems inexorably 

to point to some grand and terrifying universal axiom. 

It seems however, that the closer I come to enlightenment, the greater the 

danger becomes. Last night, one of our expedition's chief guides disappeared 

without trace. His native compatriots could find no tracks, nor offer any 

evidence of his departure to suggest that his superstitions had finally 

compelled him to abandon the party... the man seems simply to have vanished 

inexplicably into the oppressive, sweltering dark. In light of the 

disappearance, I opted not to inform the group that during the darkling hours 

before sunrise last night I had peered from my tent to behold what I perceived 

to be three of the shadowy figures I have previously described moving furtively 

in the gloom, keeping ever just out of the illuminatory radias of our campfire. 

By the time I had brought my rifle to bear, they had melted away into the 

fathomless shadows of the benighted jungle...