Nile Lashed to the Slave Stick Lyrics:
[Lyrics by Karl Sanders, Music by Dallas
Toler-Wade]

Asfetiu. Asfetiu.

Fiends, Criminals, Slaves, Blasphemers. The Word
of Ra is Against Ye. Ye are Fettered and Bound
with Leather Straps. Helpless, Doomed, Wailing in
Unendurable Torment. Lashed to the Forked Slave
Stick By the Neck.

Lashed to the Slave Stick. Abata Ankh t Khet. Neba
t Steb Tcha. Lashed to the Slave Stick.

Ra Pronounceth the Formulae Against Thee. The Eye
of Horus is Prepared to Attack Thee. Sekhmet
Uttereth Words of Flame Against Thee and Pierceth
Thy Breast.

Your Evil Deeds Have Turned Against You. Your
Plottings Have Come upon You. Your Abominable Acts
You shall be lashed to the Slave Stick.

Abui, The Gods Who Burns the Dead. Shall Leave You
Smoldering in Exile from the Netherworld. Abati.
The Gorer. Causes You to Howl like a Jackal in
Anguish.

Your Doom Hath been Decreed by Ra. Your Unjust and
Perverse Judgments are upon Yourselves. The
Wickedness of Your Words of Cursing are upon You.
It is You Who Hath Committed the Unutterable and
Wrought Iniquity in the Great Hall.

Your Corruptible Bodies Shall be Cut to Pieces.
Your Souls Shall have No Existence. Ye Shall Never
Again See Ra as He Journeyeth in the Hidden Land.
The Doom of Ra is upon You.

Lashed to the Slave Stick. Abata Ankh t Khet. Neba
t Steb Tcha.

Lashed to the Slave Stick. Abata Ankh t Khet. Neba
t Steb Tcha. Asfetiu.

[Dallas and I collaborated once again to create
"Lashed to the Slave Stick". Dallas
[ Find more Lyrics on www.mp3lyrics.org/BH1e ]
wrote the music, building it into an amazing
piece. This piece started from a riff Dallas and I
had played backstage on the "Darkened
Shrines" tours. Dallas took that riff, and
came up with the melody and a doom-laden chord
section, building upon the rest of the riffs,
which brought the essence of the words to musical
realization.

Within the lyrics are the (surprise!) torture and
various torments applied to one of the damned and
doomed enemies of Osiris, lashed to a "Slave
Stick". This song was jointly inspired by
several pages in the "Book of Gates", as
well as from a passage in the book "Osiris
and the Egyptian Resurrection" by Sir Wallis
Budge, in which he describes an instrument of
torture employed by the Ancient Egyptians. To
paraphrase Sir Budge:

"Whilst various batches of the enemies of
Osiris were awaiting their turn at the block of
Slaughter, they were kept tightly fettered and
bound. One Terrible instrument of Torture was the
Y (a hieroglyph in a shape of a forked tree branch
is pictured); the modern equivalent of which is
the "Goree Stick".

The "Slave Stick" is a tree branch,
forked at one end, by which, with the help of a
strip of leather, it is fastered around a man's
neck. It hangs down in front of the wretched
creature doomed to carry it. If the branch is
thick, the weight is considerable, and if to the
end a block of stone or so be fastened, its
effectiveness as an instrument of torture can be
well imagined. In some cases the hands were also
fastened to the stick. Prussian archaeologist
Richard Lespius, who saw them in use, wrote:

"Each captive carried before him the stem of
a tree as thick as a man's arm, about 5 or 6 feet
long, which terminated in a fork, into which the
neck was fixed. The prongs of this fork were bound
together by a cross piece of wood, fastened with a
strap. Some of their hands, also, were tied fast
to the handle of the fork, and in this condition
they remained day and night - it can be driven
into the ground firmly, and then the prisoner is
tied to it, with the arms tied in this position to
the stick the pain is said to be unbearable."

"The hieroglyphs also cast light on the use
of the stick", continues Budge. "We see
a captive with his arms tied behind him to the
stick. In another glyph we see a captive tied to
the stick by the neck, and his arms tied behind
his back; in this attitude the head was cut off,
as we see from the next hieroglyph."]
Lyrics: Lashed to the Slave Stick, Nile [end]