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Necromancy
05:00
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A chamber
With outlet facing Nekhbet to the south
An inquiry for truth
Rouse for me the spirits of the drowned
A necropolis
Receiving whispers of Amenti from the West
At the mouth of my vessel
Gather akhu to consult the dead
Prepare and cleanse with sand from the Great River
Three bricks, seven loaves, lapis kheper for Ausar-Unnefer
Pour the oil while crouched in genuflection
Eyes rubbed with ointment I utter the following invocation:
I gaze upon thy beautiful face, O great one!
Send the celestial messenger I seek!
Bathing in your ecstatic heka, O great god!
Hear and heed this earnest praise to you, high Inpu!
The moon has yet to fill the Udjat
Speak from this vessel of bronze
Rebirth from the intramural spring water
As I invoke you seven times
My keep until mid-lunar-month
At the mercy and fury of the gods
The breezes of the west come into being
As I extract truth from the Duat!
I gaze upon thy beautiful face, O great one!
Send the celestial messenger I seek!
Bathing in your ecstatic heka, O great god!
Hear and heed this earnest praise to you, high Inpu!
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Aeromancy
03:52
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This Fifth Sun – the Nahui-Ollin
This divinatory day – 9 Éhecatl
This ixtlahuatl – eye the four cardinal points
This rounded temple – to resist not your paths
These stone walls – surrounded by winds
These human bones – preserved for the next age
These maguey plants – from Mayáhuel's planted bones
These five glyphs – cyclical eschaton
Reverence at the crest of this circular temple
Searching the winds for tetzahuitl
Adorned and masked for veneration
Monitoring Éhecatl's four directions
Remembrance of an age destroyed by wind
Overseeing calendrical divination
Altar offerings for the wind and the sky
Reciprocating Éhecatl's blood sacrifice
Adherence to this aspect of Quetzalcoatl
Trumpeting the conch as cuicayotl
Conical cap sits upon brow
Watching Éhecatl's breath move Tlaloc's clouds
This duckbill mask – to represent the aspect
This conch spiral – for the buzzing of creation
This atlatl – demonstrating strength
This penile blood – to emulate our conception
This temple in circular form
Devised for air to surround us all
May your form reveal crucial omens
Perpetuate Nanahuatzin
Carry Tecuciztécatl
Éhecatl-Quetzalcoatl
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Scapulimancy
04:46
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A druid lingers among the stones of Ulaid
The fog breaches from the sea
Hooded crows throng and cackle overhead
This night he must augur the coming of war
Scald-crows gather skyward ready for the violence
He prepares the scapula waiting for a message
Dancing shadows through the smoke of the sacred fire
War sisters congregate to direct the outcome
A ram's right shoulder blade to reveal fate
It should be boiled clean – no remaining flesh!
Blemishes and indents reveal premonitions
Badb flies above in the misty dimness
Féth Fíada conceals the sage impeding interruption
He carefully coddles bone in his blackened cauldron
The firelight stretches over ancient stones
Goddesses encircle tight to instill ardor
An adept reader of bone must read the largest hole
Position should be confirmed – to reveal death!
Scapula for survival of due carnage
Morrígan sends a croak into the hazy gloominess
A ram's right shoulder blade to reveal fate
It should be boiled clean – no remaining flesh!
Blemishes and indents reveal premonitions
Nemain observes through the fog-strewn murkiness
The eye of the bone faces upward to the sky
Where the war crows reside in obscurity
The seer inspects his token of fortune
To evade death or die in great fury
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Chiromancy
04:46
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[Tat to Hermes]
Assay the line of heart and life
With pale waxing one is sure to die
Of the line middle and natural
Death stalks those who do not reach Moon's hill
The table line or line of fortune
A cross in Saturn's mound signals a violent death
In the wrist's many strokes
Accusation and banishment from one's own kindred
Incisions on the hill of Saturn – torment!
Lines on the mound of Mercury – delusion!
Mark on the second joint of Venus – poverty!
Imprint on the plain of Mars – execution!
Signs of fatality branded in the hands
Governed by the laws of astrology
One's end is written in the lexicon of lines
Why can we probe misfortune with chiromancy?
Upon the mortal body is etched one's doom
Foreordained zodiacal destiny
All is determined by the encircling cosmic gods
Why are we slaves to the Seven's cruelty?
[Hermes to Tat]
What is above endures eternal cycles
But below is routed with dynamic change
Though the gods confined us to bodily shells
The guardians provided mind and reasoned speech
Thus we are enabled to discern the gods' symbols
To grow wise through fate and by those ends decease
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Hydromancy
04:31
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[Numa Pompilius to Egeria]
Cloaked in contemplation of the gods' nature
Elicited by the power of this copse
I, Sabine King of the realm of Romulus
Petition the powers of this natural nymphaeum
The grotto's spring is the instrument to call upon the Muses
A deep blue-green window to the divine
I, troth-keeper of the ascetic hidden scientia
Call upon my ethereal Egeria
Lepesta – For a modest offering
Cupencum – An ancient priesthood
Tacita – We are her silent pupils!
Trabea – Gowned as king
Porta – Open the gate
Egeria – My celestial consort!
Grant me insight into this bronze aegis
Which descended to my folk from the sky
I call upon the counsel of my nymph-wife
May your sacred spirit of water rise!
Lepesta – A small sacrifice
Cupencum – A reformed priesthood
Tacita – We must remain speechless!
Trabea – Chosen by the gods
Porta – A veil of knowledge
Egeria – My celestial consort!
As the king confirmed on the Tarpeian hill
As pontiff of concealed pansophy
Roma will be preserved through adherence to the gods
Our minds in ever-constant connection to the deities
[Egeria to Numa Pompilius]
Mars is the guardian of strength in your kingdom
Unify his gift with the rays of the sun
Eleven arises from this cultivation
Setting forth energy which cannot be undone
Bronze is the material of the ancile
Venus containing remnants of her father's tin
An undecagram emerges once more
Pursue this figure and replicate the clypeus
Twelve is the number after merged with the original
Conduct your dominion by this sacred sum
From it you will find the menses, philosophies, and Salii
This wisdom I grant as your nymph of this pond
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Pyromancy
05:04
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The One who ascended from watery Nu
In original form the self-made Atum
With the initiation and movement of time
Re manifested as king in his rising
He was yesterday (transference to Ausar)
He knows tomorrow (rising in the east)
He is birthed again (from the womb of Nut)
He has prevailed (in the battle within the Duat)
A consecrated temple endures in Ipet-isut
To perpetuate the ritual of flame
The luminous Eye of Heru deters Re's enemies
Under Mau chaotic forces will be slain
For the Wadjet-encoiled disk rising above
A purifying fire below
Preparation and sanctification for burning rejuvenation
A shrine to seek refuge from the underworld's shadow
Incense to the flame for the Lord of the Two Horizons
For He who guards the hallowed Ished Tree
Mau tears and rends at serpentine incursion
For Tehuti and Seshat to advance fatal scribing
Re who radiates like gold in the sky
Emitting blasts of fire from the mouth
He is once again swallowed by Nut
The moment of nightly war has come...
The Other who enveloped Nu's abyss
In creation fought Sun's rise from the mass
With every journey of the bark in the Duat
Apep spears attack on the Sun God
It was darkness (all curses incarnate)
It knows destruction (annul the Pillars of Shu)
It is regenerated (chaos never ceases)
It has arrived (the darkest hour of night)
A sanctum of refuge within Re's naos
A sacred flame to repel chaos
A microcosmical eye of light
Assailed by serpentine night
Geb sieged by Sebau and Nak
Underworld haunted by Apep
The return of Re keeps cosmic order
All will return to Nu's waters
Menkhepera!
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Geomancy
08:18
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Medium from the Sphere of Elements
Seal for Mercurial intelligence
Requisition!
Points cast into twelve houses
Figures arranged into lucid knowledge
Calculation!
Puella as Right Witness
Caput Draconis left
Fortuna Minor manifests
A form fit for judgement
Sigil addressed to Mercury
With Earthen materials I invoke thee
For universal principles corresponding
Results yielded through geomancy
Ninth House for erudite wisdom
Circumstantial sign in the Jovian dominion
Prognostication!
Fourth House establishes the terminus
A salient symbol in Cancer's division
Ratification!
Conjunctio for the centaur
Cancer upholds Albus
The presence is made known
A geomantic passage
Sigil addressed to Mercury
With Earthen materials I invoke thee
For universal principles corresponding
Results yielded through geomancy
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