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Icantare

from VIRGO INFERNUS by Chthonia

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lyrics

INCANTARE
Come, Selene! Shine clear and fair
For softly, Goddess, to thee will I sing
Maiden-bearer of the mystic vessel

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

And to Hekate of Hell
The very whelps shiver before her
As she fares through black blood
And across the barrows of the dead
She moves through blood and darkness

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Hail, awful Hekate
To the end be thou of our company
And make this venomous draught of mine
No weaker than the spells of Circe or Medea,
Or of Perimede of the golden hair

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

As whirs this brazen wheel,
So restless under Aphrodites spell
May he turn and turn out my doors

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Now will I burn the husks
And thou, oh Artemis
Hast power to move Hell’s adamantine gates

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

The Goddess stands where the three ways meet
Hasten, and clash the brazen cymbals

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Lo, silent is he deep, and silent the winds
But never silent the torment in my breast

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Three times do I pour libation
And thrice my Lady Moon, I speak this spell

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Oh, torturing love
Why clingest thou to me like leech to the fen
And drainest all the black blood from my body?

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Now with magic rites I sill strive to bind him
But if still he vexes me, he shall beat,
By the Fates I vow it, at the Gate of Hell
Evil medicines I store against him

My magic wheel, draw home to me the man I love

Farewell, Selene bright and fair
Farewell ye other stars
That follow the wheels of quiet Night

credits

from VIRGO INFERNUS, released August 13, 2023
Words are a reprise from Theocritus, Second Idyl

Atmosphere, synth & vocals: Chthonia
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Mixed & mastered at Opus Magnum Studio by Déhà, Brussels, MMXXIII
deha.bandcamp.com

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CHTHONIA is a one-woman audio-visual project, channeling infernal witch-hymns of solemn invocation and ecstatic veneration, expressed through the vessel and voice of the Stygian Nymph.

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