I'm sure you've discussed all the songs into the ground by now, but I'd like to address one in particular - that is the song "Shiva" on "The Nephilim." The existence of this piece, plopped as it were in the midst of all this Enochian/Sumerian/Lovecraftian mythos seems a bit out of place without some correlative reference to the rest of McCoy's vision. The first part of THE WATCHMAN seems to me to be that missing piece of the puzzle.

Shiva is the Mahadeva or Great God of Tantriks and is known as the personification of the tamasic or destructive principle - The Destroyer. Shiva has three eyes. The third - in the middle of his forehead (third eye) - when opened has been known to reduce whoever or whatever was in the line of sight to ashes. If looks could kill. In the ancient Vedas, He was called Rudra and described as having a thousand eyes and a hundred heads. Nothing escaped his attention or his power. In this way, Rudra is also a Watcher. Rudra punishes the evil-doers. He is the Lord of Tears, The Lord of the Howling Winds (that we so often hear in the backgrounds of these songs). The Wind, Va yu is also associated with the breath of life - prana. When the breath of life leaves men, it causes them to lament (cry). In later times, Rudra came to be called Shiva, the Auspicious - Lord of Sleep. In the manifest worlds, sleep is the remover of pain and suffering - our only respite - to sleep, perchance to dream. Dreams hold a great significance in all these songs. In the Book of Enoch, the various classes of angels are described as "those who sleep not" - which I'm sure you all know.

Also, in the song "Shiva" itself, are the words "Welcome to 666," which is of course the number of The Beast. An early form of Shiva that existed about the same time as all this Sumerian stuff was going on, was called Pashupati, or Lord of the Beasts. Besides meaning "beast" the word "pashu" also refers to an unenlightened soul - or a "sleeper" in the darkness of delusion and ignorance - one who is blinded by their senses. There are also admonitions to "breathe," tying it back to Vayu/Rudra - the personified breath of Life and Lord of Wind. "My darling" would refer to Kali - the consort of Shiva, who when shown with four arms is holding a sword in one of her hands - the weapon. There is also a seed mantra - phat - which is called "the weapon which can destroy anything" - like chains. Mantra is spoken on the outbreath, whether silently or aloud. Let the weapon loose. The mantra rises from the inbreath, which is pulled up from the diaphram and done while meditating or relaxing. I'm not sure how all this ties together, but it seems as if McCoy must have come across all of this and dabbled with it. He is no stranger to mantra - maybe that's not what Zi Dingir is called in the Necronomicon, but that's essentially what it is. And I can't help but think, Beth, of your intimation in "Three Heralds of the Storm" when you say "to bring a creature like Leviathan from the deep, we will need her (Inanna's) help" and " "O'Keefe's right; it's a spell and we're all part of it. Every time we sing these words, we bring this vision a little closer to reality". Are we aiding and abetting Mr. McCoy in raising Leviathan? :)

I don't know if you know this or not, but in some alchemical circles, Leviathan is considered an icon of Kundali Shakti or Kundalini, the primordial power of creation in the universe that also resides in part in each and every one of us and gives us life. The Hebrew root from which the name Leviat han comes means to coil or to twist. That is also the meaning of kundali - that which is coiled like a serpent.