Therion - From The Dionysian Days [...Et in Arcadia Ego]

“Happy is he who knows the rural Gods, Pan and aged Silvanus and the Sisterhood of the Nymphs“ [Virgil, Georgica] “Golden apples from the grove fall down the tree And make all the Bacchants gather in Arcady To dance on the Festival of the Tragedy And eat the fruits of ecstasy In the midwood twilight, on His pipe plays the Faun In the green Temple, from the Dionysian days, watch the dawn. Goat-foot God rise Your Rod, be free, know the world Hath need of Thee and Arcady Goat-foot God, play Your pipe, toni