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,