Old Heathen Ways

The third complete release by Pythagorean Circle, which essentially closes the “first” period of the project, simultaneously marking the New Era of this entire musical endeavor, with almost an hour of stormy and primal Black Metal, which comes like an ancestral cry from the depths of the ages and like an explosion of light from the pure purified Fire of the sacred Phoenix bird. The album follows a certain theme, like the two previous releases by Pythagorean Circle, penetrating even more inwardly and delving a little deeper into the entire philosophy and principles that I want to transmit through my songs, which are essentially nothing more than the attempt to render in notes the vibrations of the Cosmic Pulse that governs and vibrates the Universes and everything, animate or inanimate, contained within them. I couldn’t help but compose a piece, as a tribute to the great general Miltiades, who under his strategic genius, the Athenian hoplite phalanx flattened the Asian theocratic hordes of the Persians in the straits of Marathon, putting a stop to their expansionist aspirations on the European continent with only a few thousand free citizens / hoplites.

Continuing, the album takes us to the alabaster columns of the Parthenon, a tribute to Athena Promachos and how, despite all the efforts of the wretched and miserable slaves of the monotheistic Abrahamic darkness originating from the anti-Hellenic Eastern Roman Empire to destroy it, transforming it into a Christian temple, it endured and still endures over the centuries, illuminating humanity forever. Having now moved on to the eponymous track of the album “Old Heathen Ways” I express my disgust for this entire monotheistic sacrilegious work of the globalists, through which they drowned the free Pagan Europe in blood, starting of course from my homeland, Greece, enslaved by the Romans, and exhausting all their obscurantist rage against my ancestors. The next track is a description of a theurgic ceremony (priestcraft) as an attempt to reconnect the mortal with the divine element as a means of drawing spiritual reinforcement with the aim of making the course of human life as smooth as possible. Inspired by Sophocles’ masterpiece, Oedipus at Colonus, I composed this song that describes the redemption of the hero struck by harsh fate.

The following piece is again inspired by Tragedy and specifically by the Oresteia trilogy by Aeschylus and especially by its first part, called “Agamemnon”, which recounts the fall of Troy and the machinations that take place in the palace of the Atreides, before the return of the commander-in-chief of the Greeks. The last song of the album is a lament for the great teacher of mysteries and music, the theologian Orpheus. Closing the album, we bid farewell with the orchestral outro with the Cretan lute, a trademark of Pythagorean Circle albums, “Athivoli” (Greek Αθιβολή) which in the Cretan dialect means: remembrance.

We do not submit, we do not bow, we do not bend the knee.

Christos “Ancient Scholar” Tsichlas