The Primordial Waters (ABZU)
[Deep throat singing, lowest possible register, representing the cosmic deep]
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[Water sounds created vocally: tongue against palate, flowing air]
Before the sky was named
Before the earth was claimed
Before the gods had framed
The world in which we're blamed
TIAMAT, mother of the salt-sea deep
APSU, father of the fresh-waters that seep
In the mingling of the two, consciousness would leap
From the nothing into something, from the wake into sleep
[Beatbox enters softly: liquid, watery sounds, irregular like cosmic chaos]
[drrr-plip-plip-drrr-splash-splash]
VERSE 1 - Before the Descent (AN-KI, Heaven-Earth Undivided)
In the time before time had a name to be spoken
When AN and KI were one, unbroken
When heaven and earth were still the same token
When the cosmic egg had not yet been woken
MU-UL-MU-UL, the beginning word
MU-MU-UL-LAH, the first light stirred
In the NAMMU, the primordial mother
When nothing was yet divided from other
Seven tablets tell of how it began
Seven seals of the cosmic plan
Seven gates through which consciousness ran
From the infinite into finite span
AN-NUMUN-NA-KI, "those who from heaven to earth came"
AN-UNNA-KI, "offspring of AN," the same name
Not invaders but emanations of the flame
Of consciousness itself playing the game
[Throat singing continues as foundation, adding harmonic overtones]
CHORUS 1 - The Names of the Shining Ones
They are descending, descending, descending now (descending now)
From Nibiru's throne, they take the vow (take the vow)
To shape the clay, to teach the how (teach the how)
The Shining Ones make their bow (make their bow)
AN-U, father sky, the highest height
EN-LIL, lord of wind, commander of might
EN-KI, lord of earth and waters bright
NIN-HUR-SAG, mountain lady, life's own right
Fifty names, fifty flames descending down
From celestial city to terrestrial crown
The gods who walked the earth of E-DIN town
Before the flood, before the drown
VERSE 2 - The Cosmic Journey Begins
[Building intensity, more rhythmic and driving]
Through the star-gate of the Pleiades they came (MAI-YA-KI-TAH)
Through the constellation of the Bull they came (GUD-AN-NA-TU)
Through the pathway of the Solar Winds they came (IM-SHA-MAH-KI)
Riding chariots of fire, speaking thunder's name (UR-RI-MA-SHA-LAI)
Count the days: 432,000 years they reigned
Before the waters rose and everything was stained
With the memory of glory before mankind was chained
To forgetting what we were before we were contained
In bodies dense and slow and bound to soil
In flesh that must through seasons labor, toil
But once we were like them, before the mortal coil
Before the separation, before the cosmic roil
AN-KI split apart, the primal division made
Heaven rose, earth fell, the cosmic spade
Divided light from dark, the first blade
Cut reality in two, foundation laid
[Beatbox becomes more structured: THOOM-tss-THOOM-tss, like cosmic machinery]
