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Churning the Maelstrom

Am the Uncreated God Before Me The Dwellers in
Chaos are Dogs Their Masters Merely Wolves I
Gather The Power From Every Place From Every
Person Faster Than Light Itself Hail To He Who Is
In The Duat Who Is Strong Even Before The Servants
of Serpents He Gathers The Power From Every Pit of
Torment From They Who Hath Burnt in Flames From
Words of Power Uttered By the Darkness Itself

Hail To He in The Pit Who Is Strong Even Before
the Terrors of The Abyss Who Gathers The Power
From The Wailing And Lamentations Of The Shades
Chained Therein From He Who Createth Gods From The
Silence Alone

[Last year, after the release of Black Seeds of
Vengeance, I received e-mails containing the text
of a work whose origins had until then been
completely unknown to me. Entitled, "The Chapter
for Bringing Heka to those who Burn," the author
claimed it was part of a larger collection of
works known as "The Book of Resurrection Apophis."
In Egyptian methology, Apophis is also known as
Apep, the terrible monster serpent who, in
dynastic times, was a personification of the
darkness of the darkest hour of night. Apeop is
the dreaded embodiment of utter evil in the form
of a giant snake that arises anew each night to
struggle against the Sun god, Ra. Against Apep, Ra
must not only fight, but must succesfully conquer
morning sun, lest darkness and chaos engulf the
entire earth during the day as well. Apep was both
crafty and evil doing, and, like Ra, possessed
many names, to destroy him it was necessary to
curse him by each and every name by which he as
known. In Egyptian papyri, Apep is also
represented in the form of an enormous serpent,
into each undulation of which a knife is stuck. In
the Book of Gates, we see him fastened by the neck
with a chain (along which is fastened the Goddess,
Serqet), the end of which is in the hands of a
god, and also chained to the ground with five
chains. Coincidentally (or perhaps not), Apophis
is also the name the Hyskos king Aussere adopted
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during his reign over the conquered and subjugated
Egypt of 1570 B.C. The Hyskos had invaded Egypt
and established their new political and religious
capical city, Avaris, in the delta region of
Egypt. Avaris is also the site of the original
Temple of Set. Set (or Sutekh, to the Hyskos) wa
the chief god of the Hyskos at that time, but in
Egyptian mythology since pre-dynastic times, Set
was the murderous brother of Osiris, and the
original ultimate embodiment of the forces of
darkness, chaos and evil, at whose command was te
monster serpent, Apep. During the early period of
the Hyskos occupation, the Hyskos faced little
significant opposition. But during the reign of
Apophis I, the Theban princes of Egypt rose up to
drive the Hyskos back out of Egypt, a feat that is
recounted on two large stelae set up by Kamose in
the Temple of Amun at Karnak. The text which I
received was in three languages - Egyptian, Greek
and modern English, along with rubric instructions
for the proper recitation of the chants, which are
to be memorized and repeated as a sort of mantra,
and as such should be spoken in Egyptian rather
than English. The translations were given only to
throw light upon the meanings of the spell. Upon
closer examination of the text, it seems to bear
superficial resemblance to Chapter 24 of the
Papyrus of Ani, "The Chapter for Bringing Magick
to Ani," (which is also known in some Books of the
Dead as "The Chapter for Gaining Power," and in
modern ritualmagick as "The Gathering of Heka.")
But the similarities go immediately astray, for
"The Chapter for Bringing Heka to those who Burn"
seems as though it is, in this incarnation, a
blasphemous underworld perversion of the chapters
contained in the Theban Recension of the Book of
the Dead. Perhaps it was intended for use by
ancient cultists who would be intent upon using
the darker forces of Chaos and the spiritual
energy of those souls burning in the fiery pits of
torment in the underworld for their own cultist
ambitions of the upsetting the orderer structure
of the ancient Egyptian world. More likely, their
goal was probably to alter the political balance
of rival religious factions in the turmoil of
those tumultuous intermediate times. By the end of
the 14th Dynasty, Egypt's once considerable might
as a nation had eroded due to internal political
struggles, so that it was unable to defent itself
against invaders. The Hyskos overwhelmed the
Dynasty, remaining in power until being expelled
during the 17th Dynasty ina great war, which
lasted, according to Manetbo, about a quarter of a
century.]