Liturgy (Greek: Λειτουργία) is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to its particular traditions.
The word, sometimes rendered by its English translation "service", may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy (Greek: Θεία λειτουργία) and Catholic Mass, or a daily activity such as the Muslim salat and Jewish services. As a religious phenomenon, liturgy is a communal response to the sacred through activity reflecting praise, thanksgiving, supplication, or repentance. Ritualization may be associated with life events such as birth, coming of age, marriage and death. It thus forms the basis for establishing a relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other participants in the liturgy. Methods of dress, preparation of food, olication of cosmetics or other hygienic practices are all considered liturgical activities.
The familiar sense of the word is an extension of the technical term in ancient Greek, leitourgia, signifying the often expensive offers of service to the people, and thus to the polis and the state. Through the leitourgia the rich carried a financial burden and were correspondingly rewarded with honours. The leitourgia became both mandatory and honorific, supporting the patron's standing among the elite. The holder of a Hellenic leitourgia was not taxed a specific sum, but entrusted with a particular ritual, which could be performed with greater or lesser magnificence. The chief sphere remained that of civic religion, embodied in the festivals: M.I. Finley notes "in Demosthenes' day there were at least 97 liturgical appointments in Athens for the festivals, rising to 118 in a (quadrennial) Panathenaic year." Eventually, under the Roman Empire, such obligations, known as Monera, devolved into a competitive and ruinously expensive burden that was not avoided[clarification needed] when possible.
False horizon
Pointing nowhere
The sky is not blue
The air is not crisp
Brother, sister
Tear through the forest
Brother, sister
Tear through the forest
The sun doesn't set
It's bronze rays do not
Sparkle in the water
They do not brush against my lashes
As I stare
And the yoke weighed heavily
Upon the neck
And the tractors placed their tracks
Upon the cowering soil
The arrow cast
The bow pulled back
The arrow cast
And the chains were linked to other chains
Forged obliquely, freeing no one and everyone
Ecstatic rite
Divide the father
Ecstatic rite
Divide the father
From river to sea
The waves sing and shine
Untrained, unrestrained
Desiring nothing
From hill to vale
Floating upwards
Lungs filling up with air
As God inhales me
Into the impossible
I wave a sad goodbye
To each newly conquered territory
Nomad hearth
Consuming it's own home
The glow of warm joy
Leaving dry form
Carcass Ashes
True will
Green life scraped from copper vaults
Silver pins in crippled cartilage
Ballooning substrate of eternity
Without reason's diamond
Without imagination
True will
Inhalation
Magnet charger
Lightning Blaze
Everything that ever was
Slightly changes
Green life scraped from copper vaults
Silver pins in crippled cartilage
Ballooning substrate of eternity
O sail of skin tumbling in the air
Blowing anywhere
O absent law
Chattering useless teeth
Secreting quiet sweat
Mysterium
Mysterium
Mysterium
O mirror that does not reflect
O fire that illuminates nothing
But itself
O shadow of what never was
But seems to have been
And to have been lost
Mysterium
Mysterium
A cascade of lightning startles the firmament
A thousand black hooves clatter
Upon the mountain
Grey plume of dust
Red flag of blood
Blue shining blade of sky
Spark with no cause
Wound with no sword
Fresh skulls and supple bones
Golden helm of radiance
The incantation uttered by no one
The call to arms from nowhere
The message from the clarion
Resounded across deaf hills
Men awoke
And sprayed their blood upon the earth
Spark with no cause
Wound with no sword
Unseeing eye
Gashed shoulders and crippled loins
Huge steampunk boulders
Nestling between cargo khaki knees
Magenta flush across your cheek
Eyes on the horizon
On the oasis siren
On pairs of Tits
Helicopter of vultures
Tornado senselessly a'whirl
You diagonalize
You tear the continents apart
And plunge into the gulf
And flush your eyes with crime
And hoard up all the rubles
Glory Bronze
Glory Bronze
Along
As the blood of God
Bursts the veins of time
Give your avatar a kiss
High gold
Holy noon
Ribbons of gas
Flailing across the Sun
Boil the anchors
Scatters the spangles
Lift up the limp red tongs
Scald the glowing gauntlets
And molten coin
Eradicate the shadows
Ignite the wool
High gold
Holy noon
Ribbons of gas
Good genius
Offering itself in flickers
Everywhere fragile flashes
Wormholes into an unconceived future
Sun of Sun of Sun
Sun of Sun of Sun
Beads of acid
Bedfeathers flying
Through dried up gashes of air
Indices of the moment
When nature's necklace was clipped
And her pearls sprayed everywhere
The hero's statue drips with stones
Parched dried up like his bones
The tragic laurel goes
To the temples
As their doors come to a close
The lava blows
Vesuvius Blushes
Underneath his clothes
The tragic laurel goes
With the torso
Locked in contrappasto pose
The tragic laurel goes
The tragic laurel goes
I force through the opening
I claw through veil after veil
Absent purity
Painted dawn
Renihilation
Renihilation
Renihilation
Renihilation
I choke the apocalyptic trumpet
With my power
Resounding though the arcangel
Like marrow
Renihilation
Renihilation
Renihilation
Renihilation
Absent purity
Painted dawn
The future is nowhere
The past is gone
Renihilation
Renihilation
Renihilation
Returner
Bursting Universal
Violation of the law
Renamer
God destroyer of a God
Returner
Violation of the law
Plant toxic bombs in marble tombs
Redeemer
Stream the universal us
Through optical ISP transmission lines
Crack my fathers' spines
And sail me to Chimera
Lay down a long leg
And elegant toe
Good Genius
Offering Itself In Flickers
Everywhere Fragile Flashes
Wormholes Into An Unconceived Future
Sun Of Sun Of Sun
Beads Of Acid
Bedfeathers Flying
Through Dried Up Gashes Of Air
Indices Of The Moment
When Nature's Necklace Was Clipped
And Her Pearls Sprayed Everywhere
The hero's statue drips with stones
Parched dried up like his bones
The tragic laurel goes
To the temples
As their doors come to a close
The lava blows
Vesuvius Blushes
Underneath his clothes
The tragic laurel goes
With the torso
Locked in contrappasto pose
The tragic laurel goes
The tragic laurel goes
The tragic laurel goes
In vain the iron-wrought tower
Pierces heaven's dome
In vain the muscle tears it's fiber
Ten more fibers blossom in it's place
They tried to plant a flag
Behind the void
In vain the moat surrounds the castle
Mud skulks across it's bed
In vain contraction
In vain expansion
In vain our kinds seeks total order
There is a fissure at the heart of being
They tried to plant a flag
The steam shall give birth to a glacier
The heath shall give way to sand
Bone shall become tusk
Hair shall become nail
Tooth shall cling to skull
Being shall become
The eternal return
Of fire
Asphault shall flow like water
Forest shall crowd out the worms
Nothing ever began
There was no dawn
The heat chars
The cold stabs
The wheat shall give way to chaff
Bone shall crack against bone
Being shall become
The eternal return