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Tenet

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about

Tenet - Explained
 
Tenet is a palindrome in every respect: all individual musical parts, melodies and instruments (and even at times the lyrics) play the same both forward and backwards.
 
The song is based on the so-called “Sator Square”, the earliest datable two-dimentional palindrome, first found in Herculaneum (Italy), a city buried under the ashes of the erupting Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, at that time part of the flourishing Roman Empire.
What is particularly interesting with this palindrome is that not only does it read forwards and backwards but also diagonally in both directions.
 
S  A  T  O  R
A  R  E  P  O
T  E  N  E  T
O  P  E  R  A
R  O  T  A  S
 
Its translation has been the subject of much speculation through time and no clear consensus has been found. A lot of myths have evolved around this little square, and inscriptions of it have been discovered all the way up to 19th century Scandinavia as a protection against theft, illnesses, lightning, fire, madness, general pain and heartache. It can be found carved in churches (Skellerup, Denmark) or in books about black magic. Eight times it was carved in runes, the inscriptions of which have been discovered in Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
 
Some rune sticks from Bergen contain the square alongside Christian evocations: in Tenet, Heilung picks up the odd mix of old Norwegian and late Latin phrases, mixed into benevolent wishes to ensure good luck or health. Syncretism, as we see it today in South America, i.a., where an indigenous healer wholeheartedly chants the name of Christ in the traditional healing songs, was maybe not uncommon in mediaeval Scandinavia.
 
As the magic square travels through time, culture and countries, most of our European ancestors were probably familiar with it. Heilung has with this piece thus chosen to indulge in many languages from different time periods and regions, starting out with Latin, then onto Proto-Germanic, Old Norse and Gothic.
 
The unusual melody of the piece is created with a special code system employing numbers, runes and Latin letters taken from the square itself, and deciphered in a complicated system to give birth to Heilung’s first melodic palindrome.
 

lyrics

TENET

SATOR
AREPO
TENET
OPERA
ROTAS

Jordh bidhak vardhæ Ek er
austir ok Ek er sanindi
Ek er fridhr ok Ek er sjaulfraudhr

Sun ar tirs or reid Ar reid ar birk
or Tir ar non
ar tir Or birk ar reid ar Reid
or tir ar sun

Áins
Twái
Þrija
Fidwōr
fimf


Stouraudhr
jafnan
Læknæshan
Ok Lif
Tunge kuth
Mana for raudh
Fas Sol Invictus
amicita

pax

portantibus
delicæ salus
habentibus
et pacem
at stat
fortuna
opus
aglakuth

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from Drif, released August 19, 2022

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