Whisper In The Ear Of The Dead

Nile

Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead

And My Words of Power are Heard in

the Underworld

The Dead

They are Compelled to Obey Me

Even Unto the Worlds Below

Yea I Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead

An they Heed my Necromantic Demands

For I have Bound Them

Inexorably

Cursed in this Life and the Next

I Whisper in the Ear of the UnBlessed Dead

And They Tell me Things No Living Man Knoweth

For I Have Taken Possession of their Shadows

And They re Mine To Command in

the Netherworld



I Dream of the Dead

And Their Shades Showeth Me Visions

Which No Living Man Can Know

I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead

And Mine is the UnWritten Knowledge

That Lieth Under The Black Earth



To Speak The Name of The Dead

Is To Cause Them to Live Again



[The inspiration for this song comes from the exploits of Nectanabus, the last native Pharaoh of Egypt. His reign was during the 4th century B.C. and he was historically rumored to be a great sorcerer and necromancer. It is believed that Nectanabus ruled Egypt, overcame his enemies and even kept his political rivals in check by means of the exercise of magickal and necromantic arts. He is credited with possessing the power to restore amputated limbs and the capacity to replace the heads of the slain and decapitated without injury. Nectanabus was said to have been deeply learned in the wisdom of the oldest of the ancient Egyptians. He "knew what was in the stars of the Heavens." He was skilled in reading the stars, foretelling the future of the unborn, and a master of communion with the dead. He is also called "The Lord of the Earth" and is said to have "secretly ruled all earthly kings by magickal means." It is said that he whispered whis commands in the ears of the dead, so that they should carry out his designs in the spirit world. According to early historians, Nectanabus exercised control of many of his enemies by enslaving the souls of the newly dead, commanding them to learn the secrets of the enemies via the spirits of the underworld, and using this knowledge ag