Here's a video that'll make you go wtf. It's a music video from the PS2 game Shin Gouketuji Ichizoku: Bonnou Kaihou (aka Matrimelee). It has a very Japanese mystical theme with references to Onmyoji and monks dancing and singing to techno music. Check out the familiar symbol in background!
I have an idea. It would be cool if a small group composed of a Hermeticist, a Wiccan girl and three Thelemites singing parts of the Emerald Table and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
while dancing to techno music complete with a flaming pentacle in the background. ^_^
Sorry for the double post but I just found the lyrics for the song along with english translation!
1. Let's Go, Necromancer!
Yabeno Hikomaro, Kotohime, with the Boushu Dancers
Stage Description:
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This is an EXCELLENT stage, set in a gloomy looking forest. It features some VERY
catchy "eurobeat" music, sung by some Monks in the background, and has a chorus
that is sung by a girl who is standing at the top of the screen. Sometimes when I
play on this stage I actually let the fight go on a bit longer just so I can hear
more of the song, I like it that much. It is probably the best looking stage in
the game as well.
Stage Used by: Chinnen
Japanese Lyrics:
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Akuryou taisan! Akuryou taisan!
Onryou, mononokai, komatta toki wa
Douman! Seiman! Douman! Seiman!
Sugu ni yobimashou onmyouji! Rettsu gou!
Shishinai ho kono yo ni miren
Nokoseshi wa chimimouryo
Narihateru sono ashikichi o
Kiyomeru ga onmyo no michi
Hito no yo ni umareshi aku o
Yami niheto houmure yo
Akuryou taisan! Akuryou taisan!
Yokai, ayakashi, komatta toki wa
English Translation:
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Spirit Begone! Spirit Begone!
If you have problems with ghosts and ill omens...
Bless Us! Amen! Bless Us! Amen!
Hurry and call the Necromancer!
Let's go!
Undead souls still attached to this World,
Evil spirits that were never human,
Who cleans their tainted blood?
That is the duty of the Necromancer!
Who travels through the darkness,
to bury the evil that infests our world?
Spirit Begone! Spirit Begone!
If you have problems with monsters and deceit...
Bless Us! Amen! Bless Us! Amen!
Please please help us Necromancer!
Let's go!
NOTES:
-there is no direct translation for "onmyouji". Onmyou refers to the yin and
yang, and ji is another word for teacher, but onmyouji has more connotations
than simply 'teacher of yin and yang'. The meaning is closer to sorceror, or
diviner. I chose 'necromancer' because it fit the theme of the song and the
stage background the best, 'exorcist' would have also worked
"douman", "seiman", are words that a Buddhist priest chants while praying
"onryou" means 'unquiet, or restless spirit'
"chimimouryou" literally means 'evil spirits of the mountains and rivers'
Achreus;345130 wrote:I have an idea. It would be cool if a small group composed of a Hermeticist, a Wiccan girl and three Thelemites singing parts of the Emerald Table and the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
while dancing to techno music complete with a flaming pentacle in the background. ^_^
This idea sounds so awesome I can't even begin to fathom it.
[QUOTE=Achreus;345132]Sorry for the double post but I just found the lyrics for the song along with english translation!...[/QUOTE]
Heheh, that's always a fun video. That's cool you found those translations too. I'm not sure if I'd agree with that translator's info that "douman" and "seiman" are chanted by Buddhist priests, but I dunno. What I do know is that the "douman" (ドーマン) is the Kuji grid (the criss-cross grid of four columns and five rows) associated with the Ashiya Douman and the "seiman" (セーマン) is the pentagram and associated with the Abe no Seimei.
Nyahaha! Check this out, I made a parody lyrics of Lets Go! Onmyoji!
Lets Go! Magician!
(composed by Achreus)
Narration: Since the beginning of time,
humankind has yet fully understood the secrets of
the universe. Other than that, they stand powerless
before obstacles that keep in them in the dark.
In this world, there are still things we still do not understand.
Power comes in mysterious ways and we magicians practice
to tap into that power to overcome odds against us.
That power is magick and this is a song about
that awesome power.
Before me, Raphael! Behind me, Gabriel!
As above so is below
At my right, Michael! At my left Auriel!
In projection and reflection, one thing!
Lets go!
Evil darkness is plaguing human hearts,
It makes humans hide and cower,
Mages banish it with arcane arts.
Behold magick! The mystical power!
True, without error, certain and most true.
Who can mold reality? The magicians, thatâ??s who.
Before me, Raphael! Behind me, Gabriel!
As above so is below
At my right, Michael! At my left Auriel!
In projection and reflection, one thing!
Let's go!
Inner slavery is a terrible disease.
Humankind has gone stagnant and sour.
We have good news to put you at ease.
Behold magick! The mystical power!
Do what thou wilt (Uncle Alâ??s Thelema!) shall be the whole of the Law.
Do what you will, (Itâ??s the Wiccan Rede!) so long as it harms none.
(Hermetics! Chaos Magic! Theyâ??re all the same!)
Before me, Raphael! Behind me, Gabriel!
As above so is below
At my right, Michael! At my left Auriel!
In projection and reflection, one thing!
(Intermission)
Narration: True, without error, certain and most true
That which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to perform the miracles of the one thing.
And as all things were from one, by the meditation of one, thus all things of the daughter from one, by adaptation.
As above so below, that is the law.
You are magick, that you shall know.
AGLA!
Before me, Raphael! Behind me, Gabriel!
As above so is below
At my right, Michael! At my left Auriel!
In projection and reflection, one thing!
Lets go!
Before me, Raphael! Behind me, Gabriel!
As above so is below
At my right, Michael! At my left Auriel!
In projection and reflection, one thing!
Lets go!
In projection and reflection, one thing! Lets go!
In projectionâ?¦ and reflectionâ?¦ oneâ?¦ thing!
Also -in respect to the pent. and other geometric shapes- keep in mind that at first one should observe the effects of geometric shapes on the ("spiritual") world and on reality: on onself primarily, but that later they don't actually "exist" (you will know what this means, then); that they are nothing more than a platform and stepping-stone (fumi-dai) to the comprehension of largely intuitively achieved, "internalized" workings that have vast complexity. In the video this is- intuitively- hinted at by the self-replicating Mandelbrot-style volutes in red and black in the BG.
