Seventy Steps - Sulphur Aeon

Seventy steps, downward the spiral

Into the fiery crypts, dreamlands ahead

Sevenhundred steps, further down

to the gates of deeper slumber

Seek knowledge in the forests

Find answers among fur and claws

Seek knowledge by the priest

Find answers carved in stone

Ravished by black wings

Seventy steps, downward the spiral

Into the fiery crypts, dreamlands ahead

Sevenhundred steps, further down

To the gates of deeper slumber

Strange harbours hide strange sailors

Unknown oars strike unknown waters

Black galley’s stenchridden corridors

With purple sails set on lunar course

Witness the moonbeast procession

Seek knowledge in nyaclathotep

Witness the vile conquest of claws

Seek knowledge on the isle of oriab

Ngranek reveals the countenance

A vision of the outer gods

Night gaunts summoned from darkness

Disturbing this moment of clarity

Seventy steps, downward the spiral

Death lies behind — enlightment ahead

Sevenhundred steps, further down

Unbound from the burden of life

Onward to celephais…