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Moriah

from Ishmael by Heliocentric

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Regarding the sacrifice of Abraham's son

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Raise the knife to the heavens
Let it fall where the child is bound
Violence and vengeance revolving [1]
Hesitancy disavowed [2]

Quarantine the plague
Dissipate the dissonance
The great commission:
To speak this final act of vengeance

But which brother? I can’t decide
One pompous and arrogant
The other withered, bastardized [3]

His raised image inverted
He smiles at judgement diverted
His brothers holocaust: [4]
Holy infanticide

[1] René Girard, Violence and the Sacred, translated by Patrick Gregory, (London: Continuum, 2005), 51.
[2] Carol Delaney, Abraham on Trial: The Social Legacy of Biblical Myth (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 44.
[3] Genesis 21:15.
[4] The word “holocaust” comes from the Greek words holos meaning
“whole” and kaustos “to burn.” Online Etymology Dictionary, “holocaust,” https://www.etymonline.com/word/holocaust.

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from Ishmael, released January 10, 2021

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