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Ammon Hillman goes into a buried Orphic text that names the things that bring death and the prophets of the air. The passage speaks of mortals contriving in the depths of their minds, of spirits that shriek, and of those who cry Iacchos (Ἴακχος), making an unseen song in the ears of men. Hillman points to the line with the verb iakazdontes, to shout Iacchos, and reads it as the same votive cry that runs through the Orphic hymns, the work of prophets who read the signs in the sky.
The moon is the next center. In the hymn to Selēnē (Σελήνη), she is the horned goddess, the nocturnal one who moves through the air, and she is called telesphoros (τελεσφόρος), the one who brings fulfillment, a name also honored beside Asclepius and Hygieia. The hymn says she is both male and female, which Hillman uses to cut against any single, monotheistic reading. From there he reaches the serpent venom, the cholē (χολή), pointing out that the Hebrew can only call a plant a poison, varying between hemlock and poppy, while the Greek distinguishes thousands of species. A simple word-list, he argues, cannot hold the technical depth of the Greek source.
Joseph’s silver cup ties it together. In the Greek, Joseph divines from the cup, and Hillman reports that a silver vessel captures the moonlight, paired with the viper’s cholē and a boy, the same working setup he returns to in the garden. He closes with the forgery claim, citing the Letter of Aristeas and the textual critic Bruce Metzger’s judgment that a Jew wrote the fictitious account to raise the importance of the Hebrew scriptures. The burning purple, porphyra (πορφύρα), the murex dye of the Bacchic empire, is the final image. The episode ends with the standing question about the naked boy in the garden.
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Lady Babylon Wednesday night Bible study tonight we have an excellent excellent lineup I think
you’re gonna particularly those of you who are in the cold those of you who are visiting sit back
and relax for those of you who have ears to hear tonight is going to go especially deep that’s why
want to give a shout out i want to give a shout out to the people working on the dragon tongue
i’m looking for fish we have at the end of lady babylon i don’t you may not have realized it yet
but we have at the end the dragon tongue itself which to this day has never been deciphered
the word that is shown to you at the outro is the word for dragon i welcome i welcome
your interest in the occult tonight i’m gonna take you somewhere where you cannot go this
is a text these are the words tonight that you will not see anywhere else this is a buried
esoteric text and tonight we’re jumping into a deep deep deep deep tonight on lady babylon
i want to begin tonight to by letting you know that we will be having a couple of short videos
full of all the imagery that is Orphic that will build your initiation. For those of you who are
asking, I’m behind. I don’t know what is this and that. It’s great, isn’t it, to be able to build an
association where only those of us with ears to hear can hear. That’s fantastic. That is a true
mystery. That is how the mysteries function. Tonight, I want us to put on our Orphic
Solution caps. I want you to know, I want you to be sitting on that throne. You have the Asterion
in your possession. You are sitting on that throne because tonight we’re going in. We’re going in
deep, and we’re going to teach ourselves something about the Bible. We will kick around a few people
in the meantime don’t worry there’s plenty of people to kick around but it’s four minutes after
let’s get rolling tonight i want you to start with the images that you receive from
dracula’s poet let’s look at bacchus and that he does in perfect classical latin which for his time
is quite an achievement let’s start with a comment before we jump into that bakic attack let’s get
some feedback i just want to bring you one tonight this is a great comment um thank you very much for
sending it and everybody who sends love them i love them bring them coming i do get to them
bring it up chewy this is fantastic this is from subhan allah inshallah good yeah yeah to lady
babylon you will pay for this and my response thank you hail satan fantastic i just want to
say thank you i am sure inshallah that i will indeed pay for this but before i do i just want
to let the audience know the audience who was not members of the brotherhood of frustration
but for those of you who have ears to hear the funny thing that we don’t reckon those 72 virgins
i shouldn’t tell them this i i don’t know how you can let me tell them okay i’ll tell them this
those 72 virgins those are the ones into whose faces you threw acid isn’t that interesting
that is what the greeks call erinus fantastic fantastic hail satan it’s such a good thing
it’s such a handsome guy rules this prison you know what i mean i love it i love it okay i’m
gonna conjure up i’ve been distracting you and i’m gonna conjure up now the text i’m gonna put
up here a text in greek and for uh for those of you who are watching the media and commenting
thank you i appreciate it i want you to realize that 80 of that 90 of that is just me translating
direct up i don’t transition into telling you i’m just translating but i do and i’ve got the
greek right in front of me it’s my own style it’s my own thing so um where is it coming from i told
you diodorus here i’m going to do that again tonight but tonight i’m going to have to dig down
because tonight is one that no classicist is going to want to talk to you about
maybe maybe one or two maybe one or two um but uh let’s get it out there are you gonna find an
english translation of this thing hopefully not you couldn’t when i when i was uh uh the last
time I looked, you couldn’t, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s one now. We don’t need
one. Let’s go right into it, and I want to tell you, we’re going right into a cult. For those of
you who are hanging in with the initiation, tonight we’re going into the cult, and I want to
bring it to you. We’ve seen a lot of the intercourse. We’ve been to the orgies. We’ve
seen a lot of the a lot of the medicated dildos and we’ve seen a lot of the just to sum up for
those of you who are coming in halfway through the movie you know we’ve seen a lot of drugs
we’ve seen a lot of drugs and i keep talking to you about the snake films i know the toxicon
remember the one that makes you have an erection what they call today priapism or satiriasis you
can worship the god priapus you can you can worship the god dionysus you can take on to
yourself the form of a satyr you and i blessed congregation you and i have seen the text we saw
the doctor write about it we saw the doctor tell us what it does to one’s mind right we’re looking
for that real communion this is not your hippie grandfather’s weed right we’re looking for that
real community i want to see him doing it i want to see him doing that communion let’s go in there
tonight that’s where we’re going we’re going deep in give me that give me that first text up there
okay i’m going to read this to you guys and i’m just going to translate it to you but i’ll i want
you to know there were some pirates in the first you know up above lace days we got some pirates
remember your pirates that’s what jesus said he wasn’t for people who don’t know when jesus was
arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 a.m screaming i am not a pirate he was using that
term, laestes. Yes, it’s a term for child trafficker, child trafficker. We’ve got the
traffickers here. Do you remember Dionysus? Did you guys see in the video, did you see Dionysus
getting abducted by those pirates, those pirates? They tried, they tried, but Dionysus defeated them.
Fantastic, fantastic. Let’s go back to the text, and let me start translating this bad boy.
um look if anyone wants to know those things that bring death this treatise will teach them
oh okay okay it will show them the sort of things mortals contrive in the depths of their minds
the sort of things the spirits of the air that float around them shriek the sort of things they
do when they cry Iachas, emitting an unseen song in the ears of men. These are the prophets of the
sky, the prophets of great Zeus. They hold their youth. Whoever wants, I’ll show you how to stop
that whirring arrow that comes from the snake that hugs the ground. I’ll show you how to quench
the eos of that serpent, that crawler. I will give to you the light of Selene falling into
to the communion okay what do you think there’s quite a that’s quite a creepy bunch of cult stuff
going on there and wow let’s just you know in a second here we’ll pull up some of the words there
and see what kind of words and why am i doing this on a bible study i am prepping you this is all
planned out right i’m prepping you so that you too can see joseph and his divining cup and you say
don’t make fun of evangelicals where’s my whip evangelicals don’t take it just take it take it
here’s what’s coming i know i know no no no i know you love joseph i know you do i know you do here
we go are you ready that feels so good bring up the next i want to look at some of this vocabulary
what are these things that are floating around us right these are the things that walk in darkness
Wait a minute. You mean, leave that up there. The ancient Greeks have a word for entities that walk in darkness. Yes, they do. And like I told you, she’s Aaronus, right? The air traversing. Who is one of these air traversers who walks in darkness? Who is she?
bad news everyone the creator is a woman yes all your phallic oppression yeah yeah good luck with
her this is selene we’re talking about this is selene isn’t this beautiful so that’s what the
air wanderers are you thought that they were a category of mythological beings now we’re talking
about the moon fantastic the moon selene let’s go back to the next word that i’ve got here take a
look at this one guys this is from the text who are these people these are the prophets right
these are the prophets and i just wanted you to see some of the words that they’re using for this
right some of the specific words go to that next one yeah look at this one this is the verb that
it’s all coming from right this is not hebrew do you mean the hebrew prophets are not prophets
Did you just hear what you said the Hebrew prophets? I’ll have you know my friends
That prophet is a Greek word
It is a Greek concept. It is a Greek root that is used all over the place
Yes, yes, this is the origin
remember
classical Hebrew vocabulary
Tiny tiny tiny ancient Greek vocabulary very big very big
here’s one of those biggies right let’s go to go to it yeah check out this one how do i get that
yeah here here’s what we’re looking for here’s what we do people for those of you in the outside
the cult cloak cover your eyes in that right in that ritual when we bring that orgiastic high
through the drugs through the drugs and the sexual intercourse when we’re doing that we are drawing
down the moon power of the moon and what does that mean all the any classes you meet can tell
you that drawing down the moon drawing down all the esoteric fruitcakes on the planet can tell
you that drawing down the moon drawing down the moon they don’t know what it means to draw down
the moon because it tells us here you draw down the moon within the holy within the venom bring
up that holy bring that bring up that holy again look at this look at this bile look at this bile
look at number two the ink of the cuttlefish wait a minute what that’s in the candors alexa
pharmaca that’s a drug manual fantastic and what else is it it’s the wait look at the hebrew okay
we just said hebrew greek here’s a perfect example right here it is i don’t take i don’t
take pleasure in this i don’t take pleasure in this it’s very but it’s my duty to reality to
you know be straight up with it okay so look at number three with the hebrew a poisonous plant
variously called hemlock or poppy, a poisonous plant. Do you see what state the classical Hebrew
language is in? It is so infantile. It is so nonspecific that you don’t know if the plant
that you’ve got is an opium poppy for painkilling or hemlock to kill you. Julian, Julian the apostate.
come here julian come here tell the folks well what was your position emperor emperor roman
emperor fantastic and uh julian um what did you tell the people about the galileans the people
we don’t now call christians what what they they they’re making a mistake with the hebrew
the there’s no show me what julian says show me the math show me your works of literature
on medicine he says that show me they have none they have none what happened what happened
it’s not their people and we’ve we’ve suffered because of the wake of the attempt to establish
Hebrew is the earliest text. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not. Let’s keep going. Do you see that?
Go back to that definition. Do you see that? The language itself can’t even distinguish between
two plants within a pharmacopeia. For the Greeks, it has thousands of species. Now,
there is a secret in translation. It’s unidirectional. You can only go one way. Yeah,
You can only go one way. You cannot take a text and translate it with a higher degree of
technicality than it possessed, and that’s what we’ve got going on. In your Bible, in your Bible,
the Greek level of technological achievement is higher. It can’t be a translation. For example,
in noah’s ark i just want to bring up noah’s ark somebody asked me about noah’s ark in noah’s ark
when the building instructions are given in the greek it talks about the first and the second
floor of the structure that’s being built and the technical term is the area that is roofed
first floor second floor fantastic what does the hebrews say for that the it says the first and
second without any floor without any architectural reference what it’s just first and second whereas
the greek uses two terms that are architectural terms with the word first and second in them
with the floors the people who back translated the hebrew obviously couldn’t handle the technical
advancement of the greek that is not what translators do translators do not dump technicality
into a text you can’t make a text more technical than you got it doesn’t work that way it’s
dishonest and it’s propagandistic so here we go i’m sorry let’s get back let’s get to the exciting
stuff here we need to go back to that one more time to the hole i just want to show people the
holy one more time notice at the bottom people here look at that look at number four serpents
venom oh okay now i know where i am i’m at the serpent venom oh wait a minute number five a
bitter drink in matthew when he’s sitting on the cross remember people who haven’t caught up jesus
is standing on the cross ah he’s screaming about the entire so thirsty he’s sobbing he starts
screaming out magic terms stuff like that right before he croaks they offer him a they offer him
a drink that’s got this in it, okay? Fantastic. That’s what we’ve got in our text. We’ve got that
substance in there. Oh, this is wonderful. This is wonderful. Let me just go back and make sure
that we covered everything from that initial text. I just want to make sure. I want you guys
to notice on line 46, those of you who are in Greek, I want you to start looking for the
Orphic terms, autocurrents, vox orphica.
Do you see on line 46, iakazdontes, iakazdontes?
You see that?
That is that cry to shout iakas, to shout iakas.
And what does it do when you cry iakas?
It makes a song that is invisible.
It makes a song that is invisible.
Who is doing such things?
line 47
those are
take it down
those are those prophets
of the air
those prophets of the air
for those of you with ears to hear
the prophets of the air that tell us the signs
are you ready? I’m going to show those
to you because I want you to be
Joseph, I want you to just
bury your face, just open up
his coat in many colors
just bury your face in the middle of his
chest, that’s what I want, Joseph, I want you, I want you to smell him tonight, are you ready,
are you ready, okay, let’s go to the next text that I’ve got, boom, yep, we’re gonna look at
night, the, Selene, just briefly, I just want you to see, here’s a hymn to Selene, and I want you
to notice, yes, she is that great goddess queen, she is that one who emits the light that defines
selene the one with the horns of the bull right the one who was in the air that night walking
meanie right she is that nocturnal one look at the very last line on this page telesphore
telesphore what is it what is it to less for yeah let’s see what what we can make of that
telesphoros is one who brings fulfillment it’s used by homer thanks right able to a filler
or fulfill or accomplish okay okay having the management or ordering look at the very bottom
look it’s even a deity worshiped in company right with asclepius and hygieia and the telesphorus
fans out there are roaring are roaring to last for us you mean selene is to less for us yes yes
yes did you notice in the hymn that said she was both male and female said she was both male and
female and now we just clipped off every monist every monotheist in the group we just clipped
them off, like pinching off something. Yes, we just clipped them off. Fantastic. Yeah, show that. Go
ahead. Did you throw that up there? Oh, here. You know what? It’s time. It’s time to bring back
Dracula’s poet. Now, try to drink in the blood of them. Did you see the initiates there? It’s that
light that we want to bring to them. I am that light, right? That’s what she says. I am that
light, and if you have a boy, do you smell Jesus with his naked boy? Because I do. If you have a
boy, you can find that light. We’re going to suck that light right out of that serpent venom. Do you
know why they call the satanists those who follow the serpent yeah yeah because it turns out it
turns out that chemical ride is such a biological necessity that you have to open up your eyes you
have to open up your eyes if you don’t open up your eyes you’re not born again you’re not born
again yeah we bring you power selene we bring you that in the form of that creature that hugs the
ground that hugs the ground for you evangelicals out there is this satanic yes yes definitely is
and do you know why do you know why what because we’re talking about the mother of chronos that’s
what we’re talking about we’re talking about the mother the light bringer we’re talking about
she who sits next to dawn yes fantastic that milky breast that jesus produces
that milk flowing breast that he’s holding within his fancy apocalyptic brassiere yeah you you
didn’t think you knew cult now you’re now you’re learning some cult wait a minute what yeah it’s
the milk brother it’s the milk there’s a way to say things so that people don’t get the word
right i’m not saying these things so you can understand right no i have certain people i want
and those people i’ll open their ears yeah yeah so it’s through the moon isn’t that creepy culty
i love it it’s gorgeous spring it bring back um go back to the um to selene please
uh go to wait what was that one yeah go to the second one and here’s the end of the hymn um by
the way that hymn that we did in the clip it wasn’t it wasn’t uh the first one was dracula’s
poet the second one was um attributed to the orphics yeah fantastic and the first thing we
looked at tonight was attributed to them as well. You mean we’ve got the poison in there in those
texts? Yes, we do. So when classicists turn to me and say, huh, huh, well, you just don’t have
sources. No, I do. You people just don’t read them. That’s the problem. And that’s why I’m
bringing this to you so that you can have it. Isn’t that nice? Let’s go to the next one. I love
this. Here’s more goodies for everyone. Let’s spread it around. Look at the end of this hymn.
look at the end of this hymn look what he calls her on the end of the first line
yeah it turns out she is the all-wise kora isn’t that gorgeous their mysteries always come back to
that kora it’s absolutely gorgeous and um what does she do she’s saving people she’s saving
people there at the bottom, right, yeah, this is the sotera, we’re right in the cult, we’re right
in the cult, okay, now, what about Joseph, you promised me Joseph, right, I promised to get
intimate, come on, Joseph, where’d you go, no, don’t pull that regal stuff, I don’t care who you
worked for, get over here, get over here, let’s go to the next, next text here, yeah, yeah, yeah,
oh um yeah here um moses hang on just sit down joseph moses get up here are you guys ready for
this i’m going to show you moses the real one um there aren’t going to be any prostitutes
of the daughters of israel there’s not going to be anybody pornating for many of the sons of israel
and there’s not going to be a telesphorus among the daughters of israel and there’s not going to
be among the sons of israel take it down you see jehovah who never gets photographed because he’s
ugly right devil is all over the place everybody knows devil best looking right everybody knows
that devil best looking jehovah he don’t take my picture right he doesn’t do so good in camera
yeah yeah you say there i catch you everybody knows god is invisible yes yes shine a light
on him though and his ugliness comes out his ugliness love it love it love it love it okay
let’s go to the let’s go to the next text we’re bringing him in bring him in where’s the
right after that one yeah i just want to see genesis 4 uh 44 5. yeah um so what has happened
here joseph has explained to us take it down joseph explained to us what happened you were
tricking your brothers yeah and you put a your cup of divination into one of them sacks so that
they would call it and he sent a guard out hey you stole the cup and they come back and we don’t
have a big party right remember that your cup of divination what is that what is that let’s bring
up that text again yeah watch this watch isn’t this the thing you know the cop in which my lord
drinks yeah he himself works his divination look at those words on that second line
oh god love it what does that mean please tell me take it down please tell me that’s a translation
of the Hebrew? No, it’s not. No, it’s not. It’s highly technical terminology that if you look at
what the Hebrew turns it into, the classical Hebrew turns it into, it’s a shame. It’s a shame
and it’s laughable. It’s so bad. It’s laughable. Yeah, this is a terrible. Anybody who’s reading
a Bible today, if it says Bible on the cover and you are reading the Old Testament, you’re reading
garbage. Garbage. Garbage. Anybody who is reading a Hebrew-based Old Testament is reading a terrible
translation of a fantastic, perfectly normal Greek work. Yeah. Isn’t that weird? Isn’t that weird?
Think about it for a moment. You’re living in a lie where people go to churches and synagogues,
people of the book go to go to mosques and they think what they are reading is based upon what
was really written it’s not it’s a it’s a terrible translation of a very sophisticated and beautiful
group of great works fantastic and that’s where all this terminology is coming from it’s where
it’s all coming from let’s go down to the next one please yeah um so what happens here’s the
entire passage you know he says isn’t this the cup you know the one that i do have my things notice
on the first line that i divine from this will be transit notice on the first line we notice that
the cup at the end of the sentence it’s silver take it down why does he have a silver cup that
is using the same greek root that we just saw in the orphic text that we had that we translated
right at the top huh because it’s part of the technology that is how you divine in a silver
container you look into it and what do you need what do you need to perform the canomancy under
the moonlight you need the holy you need the holy of that viper you need that holy and you need a
boy okay you need the holy and you need the boy so when jesus is in the garden of gethsemane
and he’s got something that’s making him thirsty just like the holy does and he’s got that naked
kid with him he’s in a position for us to say in court that he was a diviner yeah he was a diviner
this guy is historically a diviner and meets all the criteria for it he’s using all the right titles
he’s got all the right drugs he’s got the naked kid for those of you didn’t know jesus was with
a naked kid mark 14 51 52 please write to me and tell me what that naked kid was doing there
yeah fantastic fantastic let’s go let’s go to the we got a couple more i got a couple goodies for
i’m just gonna throw in go ahead because i think they’re they’re important look at this look at
this um the silver cup that’s not before it’s just i wanted you to notice it’s silver why aren’t they
using the silver cups by the way some of you witches can tell me yeah silver cup mirror mirror
on the wall baby capture that moonlight love it somebody passed the snake venom let’s go to the
next one fantastic oh i just thought this was funny i was looking at the hebrews just to see
what kind of nonsense they would pull look um this word signifies to view attentively to learn
by attentive observation or experience to hiss to whisper to divine to and can’t it’s also a
serpent it’s also the hissing it’s also some brass copper and iron does anybody see what’s going on
if you study a language take it down it’s embarrassing if you study a dead language
like i do um and you get a word that is a shotgun of completely different concepts you know they’re
not using a root yeah because those roots bind you to certain meanings you can’t just slap together
what somebody’s doing when they do that is they’re trying to say this word was also used for this
word and also used for this word and also use in other words we don’t know yeah and when you get
back translations of the greek this is what they’re forced to do they were forced those
orthodox rabbis were forced to do this you’ve got to take what you’ve got and work with it or else
it’s not the it’s not the language of god yeah it’s sad sad but you know when you they painted
themselves into a corner i don’t think we should feel sorry for people who who have have betrayed
reason we’ve got to stay in that realm of reason we’ve got to know right because what happens when
you betray reason you start to believe lies and next thing you know is you’re just living one
gigantic lie yes fantastic let’s stay true man stay true here’s a shout out for staying true
next one boom uh there we go um i want everybody to look at bruce metzger at the bottom of this
i’m going to stop i’m worrying about those of you who who are under the delusion that hebrew is the
language of the old testament and i’m just going to show you bruce metzger this is what he said
is outstanding textual critic there’s all sorts of there’s all sorts of people on here scholars
and i was going to read all these to you guys about the letter of aristeas which long story
short is a forgery that was meant to say the world in which we live is one where the original hebrew
scriptures were translated by the greeks under ptolemy philadelphus yeah and that’s not the case
not only did aristus never live but anybody who reads it can recognize right away it’s just
propaganda. It’s just a way of taking over a source or an origin and saying that belongs to
us because it’s originally in the Hebrew. It’s not originally in the Hebrew. So this is what
Metzger says. Most scholars who have analyzed the letter have concluded the author cannot have been
the man who represented himself to be, but was a Jew who wrote a fictitious account in order to
enhance the importance of the Hebrew scriptures by suggesting that a pagan king had recognized
their significance and therefore arranged for the translation into greek um yeah what we’re trying
to do next what we’re trying to do is we’re trying to create a world no i’ll just go this way we’re
trying to create a world where um we can justify certain things right and the christians were
perfectly happy to roll with it right because it only buttressed them anybody who’s a person of the
book right i’m talking about those great three religions they are based on an historical lie
and i’m saying lie because it was intentional it was a misrepresentation of history a
misrepresentation of history and surely there’s somebody sitting in this audience today
somebody who can say boy a lot of bad things happen when people lie yeah they do a lot of
bad things happen and if your society doesn’t worship lady justice you’re gone that’s it
let’s go let’s go to that last quote i want to pull this up here just to give people
um somebody asked me about armenian stuff and i came across this and i thought this is perfect
it’s quite perfect right for everybody who has ears to hear who’s watching me now
you know what this says they call that color armenian right they call it armenian it’s just
like kalhe it’s just like kalhe what it’s just like kalhe what is kalhe look at this the murex
purple porphura yes there’s our burning purple fantastic there’s our burning purple and do you
know what root this is following? They’ll tell you here, the guys at Oxford, they didn’t know,
right? It doesn’t appear to be a Greek root. It doesn’t appear to be a Greek root, but we know
that the Kalki, that burning purple, which is that thing that brought the Bacchic empire,
that Kalki is using the same letters that Kalkis uses. Huh, the Kalkians. Huh, interesting.
Those people in Georgia, modern-day Georgia, with their kingdom. Fantastic. The archaeology is going
right back there, right back there to those cultures on the Black Sea. It’s so exciting.
Love it. Love it. Love it. That burning purple isn’t everything, people. The Plaskians brought it. The Phoenicians peddled it. The Colchians mastered the mystery that used it. And from that, the Bacchic Empire permeated the world. This is fantastic.
that you guys have been outstanding audience tonight i want to encourage you to continue
sending comments because i would like to begin increasing my engagement and i’ll start my
increased engagement with my gracious audience who gives me 44 minutes of their time twice a week
i want to say thank you and in order to say thank you i would like to start engaging so anything
that you’ve got right now i’m going to look over your comments and i’m going to look over
the chat anything that you’ve got right now questions throw them in there anything that
you want to see anything that you want to you want you want to maybe take the ship a little
bit next week somewhere else we take it somewhere else i don’t know you want to go you want to go
back to the fifth century i don’t know you got some sexy stuff back there fantastic but i’d like
to increase the participation just as my way of saying thank you um to my greek students
we don’t have that much time before i need a cracked dragon tongue so remember everybody
it’s on the end of the show in the outro come and see the dragon tongue help us figure out
what’s going on, and hail Satan.
Source: Lady Babylon