![]() ![]() Our Lady of the Holy Death (Santa Muerte) is a female deity or folk saint of Mexican folk religion, whose popularity has been growing in Mexico and the United States in recent years. She was also known as The Hangwoman as she came to help along those who had killed themselves. She was a minor goddess in the scale of Aztec mythology. There was also the goddess of suicide, Ixtab. She presided over the ancient festivals of the dead, which evolved from Aztec traditions into the modern Day of the Dead after synthesis with Spanish cultural traditions. Mictecacihuatl was represented with a fleshless body and with jaw agape to swallow the stars during the day. Other epithets for her include "Lady of the Dead," as her role includes keeping watch over the bones of the dead. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the " Queen of Mictlan" (the Aztec underworld), ruling over the afterlife with her husband Mictlantecuhtli. As such, it is common in Spanish-speaking cultures to personify death as a female figure. Until the full album comes out, listen to their other creations for they are impressive as well.La Calavera Catrina Latin America Īs is the case in many Romance languages (including French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian), the Spanish word for death, muerte, is a feminine noun. If you are listening to them for the millionth time you will still find something you haven’t noticed before. This track is a good example of how good Green Lung’s lyrics and songs are. It is really a treasure and a procedure to figure out all the references. Ugh, if you read this far, I am so proud of you for this song is brilliant but heavy. Pretty dark for a folk song, isn’t it? Well it is theorised that this figure was used in the wicker man ritual in which a big wicker man was burned, sometimes with a live person in it as a tribute to the gods. In the song he suffers through the stages of the harvesting of barley. John Barleycorn is a Scottish folk song about a man who is the personification of barley and the beverages made from it, beer and whisky. “Now hear us as we gather round the shrine We’re singing out John Barleycorn must die” The pale mare and the pale rider are in my understanding a reference to the last one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The meaning of this tradition is argued so I’ll leave this as something for you to look up. Hoodening is also mentioned, this was a tradition in Kent, south-eastern England. “Hooden, on a pale mare He’ll ride” “See the Pale Rider He’s sharpening his blade See the Pale Rider Now he’s calling out your name…” He can see and hear everything, he can control everything. He manifests himself as a couple of things, but the most important part is this: He influences the corn-fields and the people around Him. He Who Walks Behind The Rows doesn’t take form as anything that could be described. This enigmatic demon was created by Stephen King, I’m sure everyone heard about him already. The next to appear is He Who Walks Behind The Rows. “By the corn rigs they’ll see him Send up the crows Welcome, He Who Walks Behind the Rows” This big winged, scary looking creature is a guide for newly deceased souls from the Earth to the afterlife. ![]() “Set the watchfires a-burning This Kindling Night For the psychopomp has taken flight”Īfter the refrain the song mentions a creature, the psychopomp, which is Greek for ‘the guide of souls’. The full lyrics will send chills down your spine, they paint a picture of hopelessness and dread. The lyrics are starting out with something epic too,Ī saying which means something like this: you will experience the same bad things that you did to other people. The first 26 seconds of this song are pretty chill which makes the real start much more epic. Reaper’s Scythe is a complex song with tons of references, I will do my best to explain all of them but I highly advise listening to it just for yourself first. Have a listen here, this is the new single: The theme is the same, their music represents the beautiful (sometimes terrifying) and rich British folklore, magic and some other pretty occult stuff. The wonderful artwork is also worth mentioning, take a look at Black Harvest’s design, it is brilliant. Well, first of all, I would like to draw your attention to the band’s previously published music because this album and in it this single will be a followup to those. Green Lung will come out with a full new album, Black Harvest on October 22nd, but the band made sure we have something to listen to before the summer ends. What they play is mostly a mixture between psychedelic rock and proto-metal, but I don’t think I can dumb their genre down to just those two. Green Lung has been present since March of 2019 and they are one of the leading bands of the UK’s underground music. It isn’t October yet, but it sure can feel like it, provided that you have a cold room equipped with a speaker to chill in. ![]()
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