Ankhalimah is a heavy symphonic power metal song about the creation of the world. The lyrics are very inspired by the Silmarillion, and by the hermopolitan mythology around Thoth, as creator of the world by thought and word - and there is a bit of the jewish kaballistic misticism.
The first words of the choir are in Quenya (elvish).
We’re inside the Deity’s mind. We are born in the moment that the Deity acknowledges itself as God, spreading through all His thought the light of the Divine Reason, impossible for us to fully comprehend.
This moment lasted at the same time the whole eternity and nothing, for the Deity lives in a dimension where there is no notion of time as a concept.
The Deity also crafted creation in stages, happening all at the same time. In the first stage, the essences were created. By saying that we mean the platonic forms, the universals of medieval disputes, the ideas, as The Green, The Sky, The Sea, Man. The notions, genres, all abstract.
From these essences, God, as an artist, painted the world, creating everything that exists, existed or will exist, mixing the colors of His infinite palette.
That worked out because the Deity sees the history as a film ribbon stuck to a wall, as Einstein used to formulate his theory of how history would be perceived in a dimensional topos where time did not exist. The Deity Himself created Time and the Rules of Nature, but is not under their tutelage.
The Deity knows the Destiny of All, but does not alter it anyhow, for He and his creatures are autonomous beings and with a limited interactivity. When we pray, the Deity listen us as a buzz in His Head, or an intuition. Altering the Destiny of Anyone is, for the Deity, deciding to alter the Destiny of the Whole Mankind.
Let us keep that.
From the rules that the Deity created, the most important is entropy, by that meaning the submission of the world to cycles of chaos and order, aiming balance. But this balance is a priori unattainable. The only way to reach it is through Love, the perfect Divine Creation and the only way to really reconnect with the Creator.
The interventions of the Deity in the historical process up to this day were in the sense of converting Mankind to a Gospel of Love. But the Deity is not Human, and therefore, although wishing to spread His conception of Love, cannot comprehend Human Love, the Love between two subjects, but only the Love for all Mankind.
Ok.
When the mens divina took conscience of itself, there were already thoughts there. Not rational thoughts, but living creatures (for the great distinction between human mind and the Divine Mind is that the latter can create by thinking – the thought being the expression of His Will - without materials, while the former cannot), made of God’s will. A couple, to be more specific. Made, not begotten, lato sensu.
The nature of these creatures will not be explained in the album. They are the products of the Divine Unconscious.
But they were/ are venerated as gods by the human beings. We can consider them as any first Divine Couple of any mythological pantheon of the Antiquity.
lyrics
Avaha ira tulin
Aratar lacanta
Cuivië i cálë ter
Lindëlorenlambë
Scintilla radians lux
Quod vitam aspirat
Omnia et nihil radix
Lucis ex universum
Shine on radiant light from
The source of all and one
Set them free from the veil
Of the embracing dark dawn
Death comes though does not stay
Time illusions astray
In the heat of the heart
Black and white turns to grey
Rise in life eternal
Nothing contains the whole
Truth is more than symbols
Maya's not a temple
Flame that burns forever
Love in this endeavor
Lights the Magic path of
Life wisdom craving hearts
Kindled soul pieces of
The one that leads the all
To the enlightened Shore
Free of pain and sorrow
The lights lit the depths of darkness
To unchain its own collapse
Particles of a higher mind
Nurturing the life we know
Sephiroth in chaos collide
Melting into another bound
To a god that's burst with light
Angel's dust is dripping down
United as one
In a perfection paradox
Divided by zero
We try to become as before
Biding the time
Can make life without light once more
Scared we see a new order grows
Out of the impending chaos
Only one ruling all
The forces that once formed us
Conscience of what is being
As a sudden breath to stillborn
Into life we were awake
Ingrown just to break
United as one
In a perfection paradox
Divided by zero
We try to become once more
Bidding the soul
Can make us awake as before
Divided we'll be one
We always shared the same heart
Light made you blind
To the truth: as a star you were born
Just look to the sky
Together we'll enlighten the shore
Divided, I’m one
But we all share the same core
Fire made you cold
To the truth, as a torch you were born
To unveil the shades
Covering the mysteries of love
credits
from I,
released November 2, 2013
Lyrics by Yuichi Inumaru, Guilherme Klausner
Music by Yuichi Inumaru
A powerful metal opus, blending soaring vocals, intricate melodies, and thunderous riffs for an epic listening experience. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 26, 2023