Dark Funeral - Attera Totus Sanctus (2005)
The Swedish guys from Dark Funeral seem to be fans of latin phrases, but not fans of a correct grammar.
The song Attera Totus Sanctus, which gave name for the whole album, should mean Destroy all Holy!
Attera means to wear out, to wipe out. The form attera doesn't exist. The 1.Person would be attero, the imperative attere.
Totus means all, everything, sanctus holy. Both words are in the nominative, while the correct case would be accusative (Sg: totum sanctum, or better Nt.Pl. tota sancta).
Another song on this album is Atrum Regina - Dark Queen. Because Regina is a feminine word, it should be Atra Regina.
Donnerstag, 25. Juni 2009
Mayhem - My Death & Ordo ab Chao
Mayhem - My Death - Chimera (2004)
At the end of the quoted song you hear the line odium humani generis. Three simple, correct words, a delight for every latin teacher, a phenomenon which drives students crazy, because you can translate this line in two different ways.
odium (subject) - hatred
humani generis (genitive object) - of humankind
1.) The genitive marks the one who feels hatred: the hatred of humankind
2.) The genitive marks the one who is hated by someone else: the hatred towards humankind.
I guess, the second interpretation is what Mayhem wants to express.
By the way, I was also asked to tell something about the album title Ordo ad Chao.
You find informations about it in the internet, but I will explain it for the sake of comleteness.
Ordo ad Chao means order (leads) into chaos. The is the inversion of the quote Ordo ab Chao - Order from Chaos, which is used as a motto by the Freemasons.
At the end of the quoted song you hear the line odium humani generis. Three simple, correct words, a delight for every latin teacher, a phenomenon which drives students crazy, because you can translate this line in two different ways.
odium (subject) - hatred
humani generis (genitive object) - of humankind
1.) The genitive marks the one who feels hatred: the hatred of humankind
2.) The genitive marks the one who is hated by someone else: the hatred towards humankind.
I guess, the second interpretation is what Mayhem wants to express.
By the way, I was also asked to tell something about the album title Ordo ad Chao.
You find informations about it in the internet, but I will explain it for the sake of comleteness.
Ordo ad Chao means order (leads) into chaos. The is the inversion of the quote Ordo ab Chao - Order from Chaos, which is used as a motto by the Freemasons.
Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008
Deathspell Omega - Obombration
Deathspell Omega - Obombration - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (2007)
First of all, the album's title means: divine law - go, you dispraised, into eternal fire.
The two songs "Obombration", which frame the whole album, contain Latin as well as ancient Greek words:
Hagios ho Theos, Sanctus Deus
Hagios Ischyros, Sanctus Fortis
Deus, judica me...
ut quid, Domine, recessisti longe?
Judica me... perinde ac cadaver
Deus, judica me
... et factus est sudor eius sicut guttae sanguinis decurrentis in terram.
Domine, in pulverem mortis deduxisti me
perinde ac cadaver.
holy God, holy God
Holy Power, holy Power
God, judge me
(as what), Lord, did you recede (such a long distance)?
Judge me... just as a cadaver.
"Perinde ac cadaver" are words written by Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. He wanted to express the necessity of unquestioning obedience to the superior in the Jesuit's order.
God, judge me
... and his sweat was made as drops of blood running down to earth.
Lord, into the dust of death you guided me
just as a cadaver.
I didn't understand the meaning of the words in parentheses: "ut" is a conjunction which means "for that, so that, like, as soon as"; "quid" is a interrogative pronoun: "what?". The adverb "longe" means "a long distance" - whereas "diu" means "a long time" - maybe that's what the band wanted to express.
PS: Some day I got an advice from XB who told me that the band took the phrase from Psalm 10. It means Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? The psalm is written in Vulgar Latin, used in the late Roman Empire an early Medieval times - while I normally have the Classical Latin's grammar rules in mind, when I translate these texts. My mistake... thanx a lot, France!
The words "hagios ho theos" and "hagios ischyros" are ancient Greek.
First of all, the album's title means: divine law - go, you dispraised, into eternal fire.
The two songs "Obombration", which frame the whole album, contain Latin as well as ancient Greek words:
Hagios ho Theos, Sanctus Deus
Hagios Ischyros, Sanctus Fortis
Deus, judica me...
ut quid, Domine, recessisti longe?
Judica me... perinde ac cadaver
Deus, judica me
... et factus est sudor eius sicut guttae sanguinis decurrentis in terram.
Domine, in pulverem mortis deduxisti me
perinde ac cadaver.
holy God, holy God
Holy Power, holy Power
God, judge me
(as what), Lord, did you recede (such a long distance)?
Judge me... just as a cadaver.
"Perinde ac cadaver" are words written by Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. He wanted to express the necessity of unquestioning obedience to the superior in the Jesuit's order.
God, judge me
... and his sweat was made as drops of blood running down to earth.
Lord, into the dust of death you guided me
just as a cadaver.
I didn't understand the meaning of the words in parentheses: "ut" is a conjunction which means "for that, so that, like, as soon as"; "quid" is a interrogative pronoun: "what?". The adverb "longe" means "a long distance" - whereas "diu" means "a long time" - maybe that's what the band wanted to express.
PS: Some day I got an advice from XB who told me that the band took the phrase from Psalm 10. It means Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? The psalm is written in Vulgar Latin, used in the late Roman Empire an early Medieval times - while I normally have the Classical Latin's grammar rules in mind, when I translate these texts. My mistake... thanx a lot, France!
The words "hagios ho theos" and "hagios ischyros" are ancient Greek.
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