Of Feathers and Flames

Fire!

Mine is this yesterday of the tails of cobras,

that Ennead, beings of the West

Whom Horus has illumined,

and who witnesses against Seth

I emerged from the Primeval Waters of Nu

Came into being by My Own

Heru-ra-ha

By My Cry the world got filled

Heru-ra-ha

By all which I had not known

Heru-ra-ha

my house is the Pride

that comes before the fall

I am the Light, the Shining One

And the pyre that devours all

Enter my child with woe, with mirth

I am the Alpha through Omega

Phenex, Binnu Bird

Heru-ra-ha!

Mine is the cycle dividing today from tomorrow,

Ascension and descent, wisdom revealed

for everything great is built upon sorrow

in all that is sweet goes terror concealed.

Thus Spoke Phenex