Show Notes: Prime Mover
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Clad in cloak
A secretive nun
Bearing the old ones' bastard son
Mental Image: In my head, the “nun” in question who is potentially Lillith is on the run. Whether the Church have found out about the plan and are chasing her, or is she is worried and hiding from the population in general is open to interpretation.
I think it shows that even though the clergy took quite a bit of power from the Church throughout the album, they are still a weaker organization and instead of being able to protect her, fleeing and hiding was the only option.
Varucose phallos
Obsessed and poised her
Cast a veil of dusk upon the cloister
Veiny Penis?
Obsessed and poised her could refer the state of “Lilith”. Obsessed could possibly mean she is preoccupied or even haunted by the previous episodes events. Maybe it wasn’t what she had imagined it?
A cloister is a type of covered walkway, typically found in religious buildings such as convents, monasteries, or cathedrals. I think from this we can infer that with the conception of the anti-christ in Death Knell, the sun has started to set, metaphorically, over the foundations of God.
Prime mover
Maternal slave
With child of her grave
Prime Mover is defined as “a person who is chiefly responsible for the creation or execution of a plan”. This could be referring to “Lilith” who is responsible for keeping the plans of the clergy going, or the anti-christ himself being the executioner of the plan in the grander schemes.
Maternal slave is a pretty powerful statement, again it could be coming from two sources. Either Satan himself sees her as nothing more than slave, or indeed the anti-christ inside her.
With child of her grave: Possibly meaning the delivery of this beast will be so traumatic to her body she will die, or referring to the fact it will be the grave of all of mankind, including herself.
Mother
Filth in her womb
Father
Waiting in tomb
I think this is quite frankly a literal definition of the current status. Filth in her womb, perhaps it’s how she’s coming to see her offspring. “Tomb” has the definition of “a structure or underground room where someone, esp. an important person, is buried”. We could infer from this the “underground room” where the father is waiting is simply hell.
Sathanas
AntiChrist
Spiritus Non Sancti
This is the first time the “unholy” trinity has been named in one of their song in the most obvious sense. Satan (Father), Anti-christ (Son) and the Spiritus Non Sancti (Unholy Ghost).
Selected heir
Machinary insect
Bloodline of the dark architect
This is just highlighting the importance of the anti-christ, marking him as the heir to Satans kingdoms.
Machinery insect, this could refer to the mother. If we are to look at the plan as a whole unit and one giant “doomsday machine”, while important, in the grand scheme of things she is an insect compared to the Gods.
Toxic blood
Of not known birth
Antichrist will walk the earth
We can probably link this back to the “child of her grave” line. Whatever is inside of her isn’t human, probably not even mortal so it is killing her from the inside as a mother and her child share blood while she is pregnant. It’s feeding off her, she’s dying from him. Big metaphor for Satans eventual rule maybe?