DEMOGORGON

I am the Devil of Notre Dame. Salaam! I dance my dance and I work my charm. Salaam! I cling to terror by the hair of her head, I have taken Medusa to my bed. I hug the Nightmare until she is dead. Salaam! Hush! By the Lord’s side I have stood— Touch wood! Before Orion rose out of the sky Rose I! Before the Hunter hunted the Ram I am I am the Demon of Socrates On your knees! The oldest of the Eumenides— The she-ape of Mephistopheles— The deadly wind in Dodona’s trees— The poisonous smoke ’twixt the Pythia’s knees— I am more terrible than these! In Jotunheim, Loki I’m called— Scald! I am Asmódéus in Babylon. In Egypt I am Osiris’ son I am many and I am One. At the Beginning I stood by the Lord God! At the last I shall be the Worm of the Pit Uncurled Who swallows Him and who swallows It His World!