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Artes Magickae

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1.
Necromancy 05:00
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!
2.
Aeromancy 03:52
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
3.
Scapulimancy 04:46
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
4.
Chiromancy 04:46
[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
5.
Hydromancy 04:31
[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
6.
Pyromancy 05:04
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!
7.
Geomancy 08:18
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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A primary purpose of OSSOMANCER's first release, Artes Magickae, is to delve into the universality of god/goddess archetypes/aspects and the dynamic humanism which lies in the process of divination, syncretism, and esotericism when attempting to understand the divine. OSSOMANCER believes all human traditions and/or mythological symbols to be embedded in universal mystic principles... Since this album is centered on those mystic/mythological correspondences and is the debut album for the band, it is also based on the first principle of esotericism— the initiation with the divine through will or becoming “The Magician...”

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released September 17, 2019

Kamose: Voces Magickae, Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Programming, Compositions, Lyrickal Spellbinding, Thoth Worship

Futhark: Drums, Additional Percussion, Percussive Arrangements, Sun Sorcery

Sir Proscriptor McGovern: Supplementary Hermetic Vociferations (Tracks IV and VI)

Moon Devil: Whispers of the Water Nymph (Track V)

Curry Ross: Cover Art and Supreme Adroitness

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Ossomancer San Luis Obispo, California

OSSOMANCER is the ultimate culmination of metal, magick, mythology, and mysticism. Through the divinatory musick of OSSOMANCER, one can explore the correspondences which link together the principles of esotericism and polytheism and initiate in becoming a messenger for the gods! ... more

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