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The Awakening
05:25
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THE AWAKENING
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14th century AD. Karina, a young nun in an Italian Catholic monastery, starts hearing a voice inside her head. Avva Rama, one of the Great Hierarchs of Atlantis, whose subtle bodies were severely injured when his civilization collapsed, has been dead for millenia, reincarnating without memory as all ordinary mortals. Finally, he starts to awaken as a spirit locked inside the body of Karina - his late incarnation. As his consciousness strengthens, he slowly starts perceiving his surroundings and begins talking to his new self…
Avva Rama:
After ages in time
Finally a light!
How long have I been asleep
In the endless worlds of night?
I can feel you breath!
Awaken! Awaken!
Arise! Arise!
The Great Atlantis!
Now it is your time!
I remember my name,
But I don't know yours.
Is the world still the same?
Am I now on friendly shores?
I can see your face!
I have knowledge of old
How to change the world,
How to possess energy,
And restore the dead memory.
I can touch your mind!
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The Legacy of Atlantis
06:19
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THE LEGACY OF ATLANTIS
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Karina speaks to the new guest in her head, and Avva Rama becomes stronger with each conversation, feeding on her energy. In return, he shows her visions and tells a beautiful and sad story of a great world that died in a terrible cataclysm. She notices that this cataclysm is very similar to what is written in the Christian Book of Revelation…
See the Earth at the peak of its glory -
Days that are long gone.
The greatest Empire of the ancient times
Behold the light so bright it blinds your eyes!
Atlantis!
Ancestor of Mankind.
Those who have united
The world under One Name.
See the greatest city stand
In anabiosis
What has once ruled all the world -
Mighty Poseidonis!
The Great Pyramids in place
Shelter us from danger,
We send ships to distant worlds,
Fearing not their anger.
We sped up the evolution of mankind
To see what we are capable of.
And gave birth to a handful of The Chosen.
There is no time,
There's no space, there's no death,
There's no life, no more fear,
For those who have chose to adhere.
The divine will continue our job
When the Greatest of Wars
Has destroyed all thats left
Of our world.
Our vessels in the sky
Built of living fibre,
What we've made will never die
In the Earth or Fire.
Our knowledge, our lore
Safely locked inside those
Whose minds perish never more
Changing flesh as their clothes.
Time will go, the seeds will flourish in the soil
A new world brings a new round of the coil...
Some things never die, others do
We are like transparent ghosts to you,
But the things we've made have formed your view
You can ask your heart - we are true.
Nothing lasts forever,
Even greatest treasure
Risen beyond measure
We induced our fall -
A matter of time.
All the new religions,
Mystical provisions,
Teachings, revelations,
All stem from one root -
Atlantic knowledge.
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The Monastery
04:16
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THE MONASTERY
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As Avva Rama slowly becomes stronger, Karina starts getting memory blackouts, visions of past times are constantly haunting her, she hears his voice louder and louder and stops understanding the border where her personality ends and his - begins. She has nothing left to do but to consult Horatia - the Prioress of her Abbey, who interprets it the only way a true Christian would...
Karina: Mother, what has happened to me?
I am not myself now
A male voice is speaking in me
I can not escape him!
Horatia: Child, you are possessed!
All: Firm as rock our covent stands -
Splendid isolation!
Here forever we shall dwell,
Sheltered from temptation!
Avva Rama: We were destroyed in the morning mist,
As a result of the Fire...
Horatia & Karina: Demon, begone, your place is in Hell!
Fiend of ill desire!
Horatia: Child, I see your eyes are so red,
Your skin is pale and fragile,
You forget to eat your bread
And spend your nights in prayer.
Karina: Please, mother, save me!
Karina: Now the voice speaks louder to me
Telling me tales of far lands
Horatia: I've asked Rome to help us save thee,
The Exorcists are coming.
Both: Credo in Deum Patrem!
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Life Eternal
04:54
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LIFE ETERNAL
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While the monks are deciding what to do, Avva Rama starts teaching Karina the basics of Magic. He tells of the main technical development of Atlantean science – the ability to create immortal consciousness through recollecting one’s previous incarnations and uniting them into a single super-mind…
In the centuries when
You have roamed this Earth,
You have changed your flesh and mind,
As the time goes on,
Dead are born again,
We have met on the other side.
Time is only another direction,
Everything has ended and has begun.
Let the multitude of your faces
All unite in a single mind!
Who completed their minds,
They die never more,
Their consciousness lives on and on.
In another life,
In another time,
The same person will be reborn.
Raise your head, you are now completed,
A divine creature you have now become!
Now your consciousness never withers,
On a new level you can come.
I have now passed to Thee
The Immortals’ secret.
Take the Path that will make you free
From Sansara's sequence.
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DOMINI CANES
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Finally, the Dominican monks, led by the educated and cunning Chief Inquisitor Cardinal Gregory, arrive at the Abbey to take care of the awakening Avva Rama. Exorcism is just a disguise. Gregory knows whom he is facing and has special orders from the Pope to gather maximum information using whatever means necessary. Religious fanatics, the inquisitors will not stop before anything, even killing Karina. Avva Rama resists, responding to Catholic chanting with prehistoric incantations…
Dominican order choir:
On every morning,
Your Grace rises the sun,
Our Holy Father,
Thy will be done!
No mercy show we
In the eternal fight
Vanquish the devils -
The fire burns tonight!
Cardinal Gregory:
I have heard there was a demon?
I shall send him straight to Hell!
Get me to the anguished child
She will soon be very well!
Monks choir (in Latin):
Credo in Deum Patrem
Omnipotentem, Creatorem
Et in Iesum Christum,
Filium eius unicum.
Avva Rama (in Proto-tongue):
Zigurmo Ort Urriz Ubellit
Hag urrt. Uturamon!
Avva Rama:
I am not afraid of your spells!
And I don't believe in your god!
There is nothing a mortal man can do
In the face of a Double-Born!
Cardinal Gregory:
I'm familiar with the Orphics
And I know now who you are.
Either you give us what we seek,
Or the girl ends on the bar.
Monks choir:
Let us prepare the Dunking Stool,
And we shall see then, who is the fool.
Avva Rama:
I've seen perils greater than this,
Your own holy ass you can kiss.
Ukummi ort ell,
Vox ort eri. Ungumus!
Avva Rama:
The more you talk to me, the stronger I become!
Its time to go!
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Love Eternal
06:15
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LOVE ETERNAL
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Avva Rama remembers his love, lost somewhere in the depths of space and time, but linked to him forever.
- Seeing you, I feel joyful and warm
- As if I have known you all my life
- Distant memories stir in my soul
- How many times have you been my wife?
I approach the Tower Cold,
I conjure the Gates of Time:
See, behold two timeless souls,
We share one page on the World Scrolls.
In the world of insanity,
We shall be forever more,
In the realm of profanity,
To the highest lofts we soar.
Knit together in centuries,
Our souls go hand in hand,
Our minds bound in unison,
To the furthest realms extend.
- In all our greatest sorrows and joys
- We have always stood side by side
- Since ancient times you have been in my heart
- Even Death does not do us part.
Seams of Time, arise from the deep!
The Forgotten, come to life!
Different ages, different nations -
Our endless incarnations!
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The Escape
05:24
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THE ESCAPE
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Finally, competition turns into cooperation. Being flanked by the inquisitors, Avva Rama and Karina are forced to cooperate. She embraces her true self and is ready to start a new life as the new incarnation of Avva Rama. She is keen to study Magic and regain all her/his previous abilities. Now Avva Rama is strong enough (thanks to the monks’ attention) to exercise his powers and clear the way for escape…
Avva Rama: Fight! You, ignorant scum!
I will send you to hell!
You’ve been pestering long enough,
Though you have served me so well!
Karina: Be no longer deceived by this tender shape,
Now I know truly who I am!
You will no longer contain me in these doors,
It is time to tell you “farewell”!
Both: Despite our fragile physical form,
We won’t surrender or fail.
Whatever happens in these stone walls,
The higher mind will prevail.
Avva Rama: I don’t ask you to kneel before me,
But don’t you stand in my path!
If you live you’ll never forget it:
A Mage of Atlantis in wrath!
Karina: Now lets deal with them all and be gone from here,
There are so many things I must learn.
Our foes are in hiding and struck with fear,
And this place is soon going to burn.
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8. |
Islands in Time
06:10
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ISLANDS IN TIME
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The identities of Karina and Avva Rama are slowly merging into one, and a whole new universe opens up to her - different worlds, multiple dimensions, traveling through space, time and death…
There's a place, that's hidden from all eyes,
Where we can stay, free from the flow of Time,
Where no seasons change, and the future never comes,
Welcome to Islands in Time.
While the outer world
Is rampaged by its fall,
Here its peaceful and calm,
On our little isle...
The millenia will pass,
And there still will be no change,
Biggest treasures we can hide,
Secret thoughts we can exchange...
With the power of Gods
We create our worlds,
Which abide to our laws,
Between the branches of Time.
As a loop they will stand,
Always again and again,
As our strongholds, hideouts
For Magicians' tired souls...
In the upper levels of the Limbus
We create a space of our own idyll,
No unrest, no tears, only cheer,
Only harmony, only peace in eternity...
In the times of unease,
In the furore of war,
Mankind's legacy's kept
Behind timeless doors.
Our knowledge has survived,
And Atlantis was not lost,
Our minds have been revived,
Branches of Time have been crossed
With the power of Gods
We create our worlds,
Which abide to our laws,
Between the branches of Time.
As a loop they will stand,
Always again and again,
As our strongholds, hideouts
For Magicians' tired souls...
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9. |
And I Shall Find My Home
05:01
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AND I SHALL FIND MY HOME
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Avva Rama/Karina, now fully restored, has escaped the walls of the monastery and the inquisitors and is heading out to seek what has remained of his old world – to find the Legacy of Atlantis…
Karina: I've been dreaming over millenia,
In the endless World of the Dead
Now Im grateful to arrogant humans:
A new world is lying ahead.
Both: Now we're free to find our way
For many centuries we are here to stay
Ancient Atlantis will be reborn
The new Earth shall become my home!
Karina: I remember all we created,
All the knowledge is in our head,
We will teach the new generations,
Once forgotten, the wisdom will spread.
Avva Rama: Where the Ancient Egyptians didn’t remember,
Where the Orphics couldn't get it done,
Where the new religions chose to surrender,
We'll be ahead before we have begun.
Avva Rama: Visions of my home are haunting me
Karina: I can see all of them as if they were here in reality
Avva Rama: Seas aren't the same, and the lands changed their shapes
Karina: But I will find what is left from my time.
Avva Rama:
What lies ahead – even I don’t know,
Forever young, forever ready to go.
The spirit of Atlantis will be forever alive
And we shall witness a new world rise.
Karina: This new world is totally different,
Savage rulers are keeping it split.
But I'll go and search for my Homeland
And unite what’s remaining of it!
Both: Now we're free to find our way
For many centuries we are here to stay
Ancient Atlantis will be reborn
The new Earth shall become my home!
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