CD in deluxe Digipak (with gold foil and spot gloss) with 24-page deluxe booklet.
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CD in deluxe sewnbound hardcover book. Covered with grey cotton fabric with gold foil on front, back and spine, containing 128 pages of lyrics, drawings, pictures and song explanations. 1st pressing limited to 4,000 copies worldwide.
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Black 12" double vinyl (33rpm) in deluxe gatefold (with gold foil and spot gloss) with 24-page insert.
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Black heavy weight 12" double vinyl (180g / 33rpm) in old-style, heavy weight Tip-On gatefold jacket covered with linen texture and printed with gold foil and spot gloss with 24-page insert.
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Crystal clear and black marbled 12" double vinyl (33rpm) in deluxe gatefold (with gold foil and spot gloss) with 24-page insert.
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Crystal clear 12" double vinyl (33rpm) in deluxe gatefold (with gold foil and spot gloss) with 24-page insert.
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Cassette + Digital Album
Cassette in gold shell in regular Norelco box with j-card, limited to 600 copies worldwide!
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T-Shirt/Shirt
Beautiful fan made of bamboo and printed fabric, design created by Kai Uwe Faust, member and designer of Heilung and specially made by Season of Mist for the release of the new album Drif.
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Double sided T-shirt screenprinted on 100% organic and fair trade cotton. Also includes a full digital download of the album Drif!
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Pottery set consisting of plate 18cm, bowl14cm and cup 9cm.
All with black matte glazing and the Warrior Snail in white and dishwasher safe.
The depicted Warrior Snail is the icon and mascot of Heilung. It is built from different historical rock carvings in Scandinavia dating from the Bronze Age and probably depict rituals and mythology of the ancient Scandinavians.
Handmade in The Netherlands and available exclusively via Season of Mist!
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
Remember, we are all brothers. All people, beasts, tree and stone and wind, we all descend from the one great being that was always there, before people lived and named it, before the first seed sprouted.
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