Artist: Bal-Sagoth Album: Battle Magic Song Title: Blood Slakes The Sand At The Circus Maximus Year: 1998 --------------- [Lyrics] Thoughts of an Iceni gladiator, awaiting the opening of the arena portcullis: Memories of rebellion (Carnage at Camulodunum): Iceni Messenger: Hearken! The Ninth Legion has been put to the sword! The war-Chief of Queen Boudicca: Onwards to Camulodunum... wet your swords! Redden the earth with Roman blood! I remember the carnage at Camulodunum... The glorious clash of Celtic sword against Roman gladius, The pride in the eyes of our war-queen As we hacked down the Imperial Eagle, And the severed heads of centurions gaping atop our spears. Bloodshed and Battle: 61 AD (CE) They had gone too far, these invaders from the east, with their imperial eagle which they dared to drive into our sacred soil... pompously claiming our island as their own. They who marched across the world expanding their empire all for the greater glory of their succession of debauched emperors, reclining upon their ivory thrones in the heart of sweltering Rome. Aye, they had gone too far... After their brutal annexation of our sovereign Iceni lands and the vile rape of our Queen Boudicca's royal daughters, the Romans had the sown the fields of carnage and they would reap a grim harvest of slaughter, without doubt! They had enraged the Red Queen, and by the gods, they would pay! We certainly taught the arrogant invading dogs a lesson, at any rate. The omens and portents spoke ...
Magic in the Roman World: Pagans, Jews and Christians (Religion in the First Christian Centuries)
