Tag: paganism
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Drowned in the Nile to renew a Tiberside tyrant’s flagging vigour, or Emperor Hadrian’s lost love poems
Aquila at nighttime zenith His toga peeled back appealingly, revealing Antinous’s yet-congealing future features His fallow chin without shadow of beard’s hint Hadrian’s preying gaze ere surveillant Signalled a willingness to be availed Of; he the idle cat His captor the long rows of well bedded mint. By dint his status, a rustic Below but…
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Binding the duat
Money in a tight band This isle’s Tai Pan Fighting the dual. The new perhaps? To fashion a glorious wishmaker we must take your hand A falchion slash any valorous lad worth his dash should stand. The last palace’s muted collapse in a hazardous, sneering badland, Not an ear around to hear the ground finally…
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Walbrook Mithraeum
Barring time travel’s starry unveilment, or wormhole displacement We’ll never know how Mithras was worshipped below this pavement At Walbrook. This won’t brook our efforts to decode the frescoes in wall nooks, Brooks where flowed unctuously the lumbering blood of a missed Christ, More questions these deceptive inscriptions provide, Yet we continue trying to tease…
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The left breast of a true seer can by her will alone produce a fine silk or a golden milk which when consumed promotes extranormal vision
Soot-blacked priesteyes king sighting queue to ply her mind Priestess of mighty Isis glittering in cuntish fishbelly diamonds Robes white as an holy ibis, neck jewelheavy, pieces intricate priceless Enacting vile Nilotic rites so that the dynasty survives Blood quotients taken twice, no one cares if a slave dies Every step adhered, everything done right…
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Maat’s world-pierced underbelly
Sun crowned Lictor waits, he will be blade nicked then drowned Worlds underground, i go now to feed winds, seed thunders, freed then. BenBen the sacred mound prolonging his prophetically assured drowning; You pass it everyday in town, every obelisk’s sun-licked crown. Alchemical works uncovering primordial matter, could be a doctor An accountant, less about…
Alchemisland 