Lord Of Desert

[Music: Piotr Wiwczarek, Lyric: Pawel Frelik]

[taken from Litany album - Japan version]

Set is perhaps the most mysterious god of the ancient Egyptian pantheon:

a lord of contradictions and conflicts,

a god at once saving the world and rejected as a traitor,

an incarnation of Other which, unlike all remaining Egyptian deities,

was not even given a recognisable animal face.

The red dunes are my home

Far away from the black Earth

I have to wait for the barbarians

To come and worship me again

Nightly I save you all from the serpent

Which stalks the world with no end

But you still kill me and castrate

Turning me into my victim

I am trampled by those whom I save

Despised down and up the river

The double slayer, the isolator

Set, the lord of desert, is me

Riding the storms of sand so alien I am

You can't even give me the head

There would be no life and rebirth

Without my fratricide and fight with the bird

Yet, you break my statues

And spear them for a sign

Of ungodly displacement

And banishment to the edge of the night

I am trampled by those whom I save

Despised down and up the river

The double slayer, the isolator

Set, the lord of desert, is me